i went out and bought madden 2003....a few of my friend had no trouble at all getting it (2002) to work on there systems.....last month i bought windows xp and tried to install it (2002) and it installed an worked fine....to tell you the truth i have no idea what was wrong with it...i would double check your viedo and sound drivers just to make sure they are up to date...i know this is not much help but good luck.