Hi Nick - thanks I'm really glad that you are liking MoI!

Can you tell me what kind of video card you have on your machine that did not deal with the threaded display mechanism very well? Maybe problems in that area are getting more common than they used to be, I'll have to think about maybe having it off by default rather than on by default.

re: First person shooter mode - you can switch the regular mouse viewport manipulation into first person mode, go to Options > View > Rotate/Pan/Zoom options, and change the "Rotation style" at the top of that dialog to Rotation style = "First person". Then you'll probably want to switch it back when you're done looking around.

- Michael