Battlefield Vietnam

The one thing that sets Battlefield/Desert Combat apart from a lot of other games, is you don't just grab a gun and run around shooting people. To fly a helo well in that game takes a lot of practice, it's got to become second nature. Same goes for the planes. Even driving a tank is easy in itself, but to do it well you have to know where to hit your target to get the most out of your shooting. I think it takes as much or more skill than any game I have played.

This game also invites team play, more that any game I have played yet. Although most people do run around on there own, you've got a lot of pilot and passenger types, (plus a parachute), that do more to take flags than anybody and therefore help there team. Also a lot of pilots just standby over a flag, protecting, while there team takes the flag and the points.

I'm going to get BF Vietnam, but I think it'll be hard to beat Desert Combat.

I just got battlefield vietnam. I have a 9600XT. Now i know the game is optimized for Nvidia but is their any need for such crap graphics? I have to keep my settings on high unles they become unbareably bitty. Everything is just so bitty, sometimes so much so you carnt make out your comrades faces. Everything is just in little squares (pixelated) and the game just looks crap. I uninstalled/reinstalled, got the newest Ati drivers, all the usual stuff. What the hell is going on?

The gfx are not that bad at all.. and defently not as bad as you describe them. Sounds like you need to chage your resolution in the game from 640x480 or get some AA turned on.

For some reason thinks look a lot more jaggedy when you turn all settings to max, at least thats my experience with my 9600...

Change settings too
1024x768 32bit
Graphics Quality : High
Geometry: Medium
Texture: Medium
Lightmaps: ON
Shadows: On

with these settings everything looks better to me than with full settings on(maybe my card just cant handle the higher powered stuff)

Vassil, that is exactly how I have it set, and I also noticed that it looks better.