Has anyone been able to get D3D acceleration to work in this game under Win2k and an Nvidia card?
 
I wrote 3DO and this was their response:
Sorry it took a little while, but now that I've had the chance to do some testing on this I can see that it seems to be a Windows 2000 issue. More specifically, for some reason MM7 does not seem to like the D3D drivers for Nvida cards -- I tested it with a TNT2 on 2 different Win2000 systems and got crashed to the desktop every time in D3D mode, on current Nvidia drivers. Since the game wasn't originally tested or programmed for Windows 2000, there's not much we can do about this issue. Although Windows 2000 isn't officially supported here I've tried to determine if it was a know
hardware issue (unrelated to the operating system) to see if there was some other way to resolve the problem, but there doesn't seem to be anything. I apologize for the inconvenience, but that seeems to be the answer.
 
I can't belive that this is the answer - it works with other cards, but not Nvidia, the most common 3D card out there!?!? It wouldn't be such a prob but the crappy 2D engine in the game cuts out a bunch of the effects. All the spell effect are the first casualty. Not like today's computers don't have enough power to do all those effects using 2D accelerations, but 3DO didn't see it that way for some stupid reason!