Not sure about this but I suspect that one might play better with all the eye candy turned down to minimum in many of the FPS games, certainly BF1942 and I think bf2 (although my box isnt powerful enough to have all settings at max) Obviously view distance is important. I remember how hard it was to see mines in bf1942 but if you turned the detail right down it was like spotting turd in your bath (very easy). Its hard to see through a fully leafed tree but a stick model does not obscure things as much. Thoughts? (and yes, teamies do always run over my mines and punish me :/ )