still nada, does downloading this game over wifi have anything to do with this? I read around a bit.
There's always a possibility a file can becomes corrupted during a transfer. It's rare but possible.
There is a video cfg file that I think is created once you enter and set it. I may get the name wrong and maybe someone can correct me, but it might be "video8", in the settings folder.
Not knowing what all you've already done, at this point it might be considered to save the files you DLed from others, uninstall the game, delete the game folder (If ya have a reg cleaner ya might run that too.) and start fresh again. Re-DL and re-install the standalone version.
My fix was the 1.9g stdshape.res file.
Sure is being stubborn. Another player had similar issues too. But I do see new players so I don't think it's the DL or server issue. I've been wrong before tho.