Crap, you changed your avatar. Almost can't recognize you if it wasn't for your LYN nick.

You can help us get our Nissa card as well? That'll be great & yeah, do count me in if it's OK.

I don't think it's possible to get the game started on Win XP SP2. By hook or by crook, you gotta get it up to SP3 to get the game running.

EDIT: DotP just crashed my video card driver.

This post has been edited by talexeh: Jun 18 2010, 08:55 PM

Just had a few games in windowed mode. I've read it in the Steam DotP forums before but I'm still kinda surprised that this game actually spiked my i7 CPU to 75% whenever the duel begins.

I guess it was a bad port after all. Sigh...

Checked Steam but found no news about this update. Ran a few rounds, the CPU load is still the same, hovering at around 70%.

I guess it's the 1st expansion?

Somehow DotP never state down the fixes & enhancements applied for each update in the News section like other Steam games.

I sincerely hope that this patch will rectify the CPU load issue else I'm gonna have to put this game aside until it gets done.

This post has been edited by talexeh: Jun 25 2010, 01:43 AM

The CPU throttle option is useless LOL. No difference at all.

You should try to run the game in windows mode & take a look at your CPU load.

Thanks for the information. I'll test later & if it's as what you mentioned there, I'll be 1 very happy customer.

Just wait until the Summer Sale ends & everything should be back to normal.

What is the error / symptom that you're facing with?

Try checking for the steamapps folder & run the DirectX installer (dxsetup.exe). If you're using XP, you can find the DotP demo folder in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common. That's 1 of the thing you can try as I suspect since the demo doesn't install DirectX for you & hence, you failed the pre-requisite check.

LOL... apparently now you can buy deck unlock & foil conversion from Steam. I wonder how much they'll be able to earn from these.

Not gonna happen LOL.

This post has been edited by talexeh: Jul 23 2010, 10:20 AM

Fix'd.

Yes you can.

1. Most of us bought from Steam since there was a pre-order bonus of Expansion 1 bundled along free.

2. Story-based is vs computer. You can play online against friends.

3. No deck building feature. You can unlock decks as you progress through the story-based games. For each decks, there are around 20 cards that you can unlock but you can't move cards between decks.

Sorry if I somehow caused any misunderstanding in my previous post. Expansion 1 was free when we pre-ordered the game. Now that the game has been released, the offer has expired hence you'll need to fork out extra to purchase Expansion 1.

You can buy the game from this link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/49400/

1. The only Expansion you need is Expansion 1 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/49402/). The others are just deck unlocks or foil conversion, which are pretty useless. Deck unlocks are for those lazy to play the story-based games while foil conversion is, let's just say for aesthetic purpose only.

You don't need to buy any deck to play. This is not MTGO (Magic: The Gathering Online).

2. Expansion 1 continues the story & provides you with more decks to unlock.

3. To be honest, DotP is much more focused on the single player games. DotP for casual players / beginners to Magic universe while MTGO is for hardcore players. There is an option in DotP that allows you to duel it out with other players.

IIRC, you can set it to offline mode to play without Internet connection. I can't test it now so don't quote me on that.

Perhaps you can give the demo a try first before you make the purchase?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/49400/