I found some other who also have an ati graphic card and who are suffering under the same problem.
It happens in every mod and with every setting.
It really ruins the gameplay cause u cant distinguish between a flea and a krog.

[SCREENSHOT]

Mantis Posts:
http://spring.clan-sy.com/mantis/view.php?id=1315
http://spring.clan-sy.com/mantis/view.php?id=1201


Just found this post: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16828&

Lets see wether it works.

just FYI: radeon 4850 works as fine as nvidia cards (actually, if you tell LUPS that you have an nvidia 8800, it'll show you some really cool effects - if you haven't seen them before.)

so how can i tell lups that i have a nvidea card?

put
in your lups.cfg (usually found in the same place where spring.exe is).

lol i tried to use an old driver version and it worked.
BUT now i have to press shift and ctrl every 10 seconds to make my gui appear
gonna try the nivida fake trick , lets hope it works.

nvidia trick won't help for gui, unfortunately...

Go to SpringSettings, turn on Expert Moder, click Render Detail tab and bump down Unit icon distance.

That's one of possible fixes. Unit icons will kick in before you get your error. Clearly you won't be able to see full 3D units then when zoomed out but if you like that fix, tweak up settings so you get icons right before that bug.

I wouldn't bother too much with ATI drivers. Each version broke some part of spring for me. I just use the least broken. For example I can't see that huge sphere in Core Reactors right now. Dunno if anyone reported that, maybe I should. But is use ancient R9600XT.