I'm playing Evolva on Windows 7 and I have this problem where the screen tears almost constantly and pauses up. I use an Nvidia 8200M G card for my laptop. Does anyone have any advice?

If I change the option to anything besides "Use the 3D application setting" the game goes ballistic whenever I try and launch it, flickers even worse and I can't click on anything at all. If this can't be fixed then can I just exchange it for a game of equal price?

Are both anti aliasing and anistropic filtering set to application controlled as well in the nvidia control panel?

Yes.

Same problem here.. WIn7 64bit, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
The problem as I see it is possible a Direct X 7 issue (maybe?) as I know a guy who is developing a game (adastra) and when he changed to DX9 from 7 it removed the problem.
Visually, its like shards of the graphics splash out over the screen and the screen freezes for a moment the returns to normal.. then it happens again.. with fragments of previous frames left on the screen.. repeat.
I have tried setting compatibility to Win95, XP and all in between, Its running as administrator and I have NVIDIA iether giving control the the app or setting everything to NO and it makes no difference.
Im just tried with VirtualBox with the DirectX .. and the evolva.exe crashes abnormally.. ah well.. I was looking forward to this game again.
All suggestions welcome.