No casting animation effects

I've noticed that my necro doesn't have any casting animation effects (like the green "swirl" when creating bone horror). Same thing with say an elemental. The game itself looks fantastic, I run 1400x900 and achieve 60fps with everything turned on high (no AA). Radeon x1650Pro card.

On my intel GMA based laptop, the animations show up fine, so it's something with my client, build on my main box.

Has anyone else run into this?

it might be a corrupted dat file.

try copying the gw.dat file from your laptop to your desktop.

This is usually a corrupted gw.dat file. Try copying the one from the laptop as Moriz says, or try the "-image" command line switch. (info is in a sticky here somewhere)

Did the copy and everything is working great Thanks gents.

I fired it up on my 28" last night -- holy crap did that look nice.