Not at all Avenger what your saying makes sense to me at least. I think perhaps what some people will have problems with is the fact that their gfx cards are quite old and don't fully support Dirext X 8 or 9 shaders in the game because their card was designed for a version of Direct X that does not support those shaders. Hence reduced effects and appearance in the game. Heck I first ran this game on an Intel gfx chip its was DX9 compliant, but lacked support for certain things in games, the game looked ok, but it looked even better when I bought my Geforce 7.