Possible graphics issue after a driver update?

[CMDR Duck]

After not playing for a while I updated the drivers for my nvidia 8800GTS. I also applied the latest patch at the same time. After I did this I noticed two things.

At a distant zoom ships are clumping together so that one bomber icon could be a single bomber or it could be twenty bombers. I need to zoom in to the noise hair level to be sure I know what the threat is. I also noticed that the graphics for the tractor beams are really aliased and full of artifacts. Is this the patch doing this or did I somehow change something when I updated the driver?

[x4000]

That's part of the patch, it is called Icon Grouping and it's something you can turn off if you don't like it.

[xeren]

Drag select over any ship to see how many ships are in that 'stack'

[CMDR Duck]

Got it, I was looking for a check box, but it's in the graphics under interface. Thank you.

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, we tried drawing little size indicators on the group icons but it wound up being pretty unreadable and caused a not-insignificant performance hit.