Okay, when I start a game, the effects are not ever working properly. For example: The blue rings that come out of the printer do not show up, and when a projectile hits an ofject, all I see is the light caused by the flash, not the flash itself. But the effects work for teh first minute or two, and everyone else on my server can see them. This problem occurs on my windows xp computer with an uncomplicated graphics card and on my windows 7 computer with an advance nVidia graphics card.