Thanks to everyone who replied
To AVGWarhawk: Thank you, that gives me a good idea of how it is. So the fog makes it unplayable, huh? Annoying, but doubt it will be such a huge difference. And yes, I will run 1024*768 on a 19' monitor (not flatscreen).
Digital_Trucker, About the on-board sound; I use this as well unfortunately, but could it be because you only have 1gig? Or maybe because of the programming issue like cappy70 said?