Spring RTS Engine

I have a problem where when i start up spring. the screen flashes black for random
times, sometimes up to 20-30 seconds and this will contine until i close spring.
think this is an opengl problem but i am not sure because it does not happen with any other apps. Im using the nvidia driver version 169.07 and the GeForce FX video card on Suse 10.3. i am using the Spring 0.76b2 rpm from Packman. glx-gears runs normally. any other info you need i will happily provide. I would really appreciate help with this. thanks in advance

32-bit or 64-bit distribution?

32-bit.

169 have a lot of bugs and incompatibilities.
Use a stable and tested release.

Another think its to know yours Antialiasing and Anisotropic, I have problems with this configuration and it give me GL problems.

Hi, where did you get the version 0.76b2.

It isn't out