Hey mates, just had a funny kind of realization. I downloaded fraps. You get the FPS counter with that and then I realized that I had not had FPS on my mind at all for the last 2 weeks. No issues there then. Nice. Not only that I was getting solid 50's fps so I thought I'ld bump up the AA a bit and see how she handles it. Well, virtually same fps so far and sharp graphics. Nvidea card set to quality now rather than performance. Don't get me wrong, I'm not crediting fraps for performance increase. It just seems that things get better and better. New forum, update patches, new/more forum members and a good BHAH review. Cheers to the lot of you!