Also little tip from me, you probably found out you cant set the screen resolution to match your monitor? (i couldnt for a 17" 1280x1024) so i found this trick on several forums so you can run the correct resolution no matter what screen size you have.....................

On the 2142 icon that you click to start the game, right click on it and hit "properties" then in the target box go all the way to the right and put one space after the last digitt and type in the following

+szx 1280 +szy 1024 exactly that except change the numbers to whatever your screen res is and even though it still says the wrong value in game it will actually run at the res you changed it to(if you want to check do a screenshot and it will say the right res so you know its worked)