I only just got a video card that can handle Hardware T&L to play the newest games that require it. I bought Battlefield Vietnam to try it out and I'm a bit disappointed. Mostly, I suspect the computer cheats and I hate that.
My complaint relates to spawn points. In BF1942, I remember enemies always spawning at their bases. In BFV, I kept having problems with enemies popping up out of nowhere despite my best efforts to try to establish some kind of a front, catch them in transit or anything else to try to remove a bit of the absolute chaos from the situation. During one base defense in which I was getting hit by waves and waves of VC/NVA, I happened to find a spot just on the edge of my base where enemies were spawning out of mid air and attacking in waves. I experienced a similar problem as NVA with Americans doing the same. The only difference is the Americans seem to have a little box marking where this happens. This wouldn't be so bad if the AI troops would defend their bases, but they won't. They just run off the moment they capture a base, even if there are enemies attacking from the other direction (I had that happen last night where the vehicle I was in the gunner position of drove off to attack another base leaving the one we just captured to be recaptured by troops I was shooting at as we left.
Of course, I realize that single player is only an afterthought to this game as the primary emphasis is on the online fragfests. I really can't stand those very much because people get mad at you and boot you from their server if you try to do anything but madly rush lemming-like at the enemy flags. Frankly, WWIIOnline was the only place I ever had a fun online FPS experience. I may have to get back into that as I understand they've made a lot of changes since I last played. That or try something Everquest-like again if I want to do online gaming. I understand EQ2 is due out later this year and some of the developers hostility to soloers and archers has evidently been tempered.
Before I got BFV last week, I was playing Space Empires IV, though that also had some AI trouble.