I had v3 for about a year, before I finally bought myself a brand new GeForce 2 ULTRA (my cash, my caaaaash ), and I have played w&w on both.Here are my thoughts:

1)I had a very screwed up graphic on voodoo text was strange, graphics VEEEERY pixelized, and it looked just ugly.
2)On GF 2, graphics and text are soooo sharp that I cant stop looking at them (and here comes the problem).After some time, the graphics reset to what I saw on v3.The same problems (text, pixels..).The only cure for it is to quit the game, and come back (quit the whole game), or, alt-tab out of it.It also helps, but then ......you ppl know how the world looks like when you alt-tabbed out ,dont ya?I bet everyone checked that at least once, heh.

Now, my question is:Is it normal or its just my comp?

PS, I beated that game yesterday at 6 am, after 8 hours of non-stop playing (was worth it), got myslef a valkyrie, and a zenmaster.NOW WHAT?I have finished EVERY quest in this game, so its pointless to go on.So I went back to Valeia, made myslef a new char (wizard) ,went waay back to brimloch, trained wizard to lvl 20, chancged him to ninja, trained ninja to lvl 15, and then I made him a zenmaster and restarted the whole game Now I play with a team of:

1 Zenmaster
1 Warrior--oon-to-be-Barbarian
1 Priest--soon-to-be-Paladin
1 Rogue--bla-bla-bla-Ninja-assasin

Of course , the zenmaster does all the dirty work

Erad

I've got GF2, I get the same gradual decay of graphics... I play for a while, then the picture begins to decay, the mouse moves slowly, the enemies jerk about the screen, etc., just like after ALT-TABing.

The solution? I switched to software mode The gfx are pretty much the same as running under GF2 (in fact, I can see no difference at all...), but there's no decay after time -- I can leave the game running for DAYS straight, which I often do since that Windows comp is used for nothing but gaming, without graphics problems.

SO SWITCH TO SOFTWARE!

Hey, it works
And You were right, everything looks the same.Then why they implanted the hardware acceleration anyway????

Erad

Why use hardware acceleration? Same reason you'd ever use it: to take some of the hardcore math load off of the CPU. That's what 3D cards are for, to help graphic-intense games run smoothly on lower end machines.

But that comp is a P3 866, and most games don't slow down when running software mode (if they even /have/ a software mode); then again, this is the first game I've had trouble with on the GF2, so I almost always run hardware...

Whatever; 3D cards aren't generally supposed to "improve" the look of the gfx, but rather speed up the game's performance.