I'm replaying the game since last playing it well over a year ago now. At the time there were two graphical bugs that really annoyed me. Looks like even on a new video card (8800GTX -> GTX 260) and many driver releases later, they're still there. I know there haven't been any official updates to the game of course, but have any fans figured out how to fix these?

1) Oil stain decals when you throw oil jars against surfaces are all weirdly pixelated and washed out. Looks like they have a bad specular/bump map. IIRC that bug was the game's fault and wasn't specific to a video card or driver. Did anyone ever upload a fixed texture for that?

2) When you have the flame missle spell equiped, and hold your hand close to a wall or some other surface, the fire illuminates the wall. However, it flickers very badly, it's not a natural flicker. It's a very rapid flicker that looks like some bad z-fighting between the wall and the lightmap. I believe this bug is specific to nVidia cards and was introduced in some later driver release - looks like the current drivers still have this problem. Anyone know a workaround for that?