I can get the game to run perfectly fine (well, kinda), but I'm having two specific problems (I've downloaded it from the underdog site and also downloaded the patch to it, but the underdog version already has the latest patch on it). I had it working fine on my girlfriend's computer (1ghz xp SP1) but two things go wrong with it on my computer (much newer running xp SP1); after customizing the wizard portrait after starting a new game, when it goes to the "enter your name" screen, it will resize the screen and the image will shrink down to a quarter of the screen and the text entry part has scrambled letters and you can't edit them. Pressing escape and retrying usually helps, and I think saving a profile does too, but that isn't the biggest problem. My problem is on the edit deck screen; the cards in my collection not in my deck simply don't show up at all on the bottom of the screen. I can still add in entire colors at a time through the add/remove color option, but I can't click and drag individual cards into my deck, and any cards I drag out of the deck disappear as well, only showing up if I choose to add all cards of a color at once again. I've tried all the compatibility modes and nothing has helped, as well as having it stay in 640x480 resolution. The killer problem is with the deck editor program. Any ideas? Could it be related to the graphics card? (ATI all-in-wonder 64mb)
Also, I just noticed that in the deck editor window it doesn't show creatures' power/toughness in the bottom left hand corner - there's just nothing there. I haven't tried it out in a duel since I noticed it, but power/toughness were working earlier before I ever noticed the problem with the deck editor screen. Finally, certain cards just show up blurry on the large display. For instance, I load the royal pain deck in the editor and creatures like llanowar elves and hypnotic specter show a blur, but the sengir vampire is fine.