Well i figured i may as well report this problem since it seems to have no sign of disappearing. SINS currently has a very strange flickering pixel problem on Ships and asteroids. As an example i've uploaded a highly zoomed in Kol to show that it is individual pixels that are doing this.

I've been trying a variety of different Nvidia drivers released since summer (when i got my new PC) but all of them seem to have this problem





As you can see, there are certain pixels that seem to have adopted a single colour, and no longer blend with the ship. Depending on the camera angle and zoom it will be different pixels that gain this affect, and in game it looks like a white flashing effect on ships and asteroids.

Might as well bring this up as well; kill two birds with one stone as they say. Selecting hardware sound in the options seems to make in game sound effects cut short. So for example, a machine gun (auto cannon or whatever they are) fires, i will only hear about half the sound, before it sounds like the rest of the sound forgot to play. Different sound drivers or settings (other than turning hardware sound off) seem to make no difference either.

Though my specs would be useful as well;
Nvidia 8800GTX
Intel q6600
4gig DDR2 Ram
Creative X-FI XtremeGamer
Vista Ultiamte 64bit.