Magic the Gathering on XP
I want to install Magic the Gathering the PC Game. At the beginning of the installation is said that this game was tetste for Win95 and then the installation crashes. So i set up the compatibility to Win95 and installed.
I want to install Magic the Gathering the PC Game. At the beginning of the installation is said that this game was tetste for Win95 and then the installation crashes. So i set up the compatibility to Win95 and installed. When i tried to start the game i have got an error wich says: "File->D:\Newmagic\sources\sid\glue.c, Line-> 708 Could Not Load Dave's Extra Cool Timer" and then follows a support telephone number. What does that mean and what can i do?
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I was having problems running Deck.exe as well, kept crashing on me, I've got an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000...
I cured the problem by dropping my screen resolution down to 800x600, I think that the game will also work with 1024x768, I think it has to do with the card art and sprites only working in those resolutions there are a couple of files in the magic directory that start off with 800 and 1024, and I believe that's what they imply.
And that's how I got the game to work on my comp, so I don't believe I'm completely off my rocker.
I cured the problem by dropping my screen resolution down to 800x600, I think that the game will also work with 1024x768, I think it has to do with the card art and sprites only working in those resolutions there are a couple of files in the magic directory that start off with 800 and 1024, and I believe that's what they imply.
And that's how I got the game to work on my comp, so I don't believe I'm completely off my rocker.
ok iv downloaded a really big file (mtgv125) and i copyd all of those files to the install dir and everything works (just cant see cards yet) but besides that i was wondering if someone could tell me how to slow Shandalar down it works i can fight with all the people...just donno where im going cause its moveing to fast i just run into things and sometimes hit a town that or im already to the other side of the map so if any one has any ideas????? and how do u turn off nview nothing says its runing and i donno what the prosses name is so if anyone can help thex in advance
Does anyone know how to get manalink to work over a LAN. I have installed the game from underdog and updated it with the manalink patch. But I can't figure out how to connect to another computer on the LAN? help and thanks
Ed
Ed
Hey all,
Just got this awesome game. It worked perfectly until I started screwing around with mana link so that I could duel against my roomate... Now everything is messed... at first there was no text in the game, so I uninstalled and wiped the reg key. Now there are just no card names. Everything else works ok...
Any Ideas??
Thanks,
Kaos
Just got this awesome game. It worked perfectly until I started screwing around with mana link so that I could duel against my roomate... Now everything is messed... at first there was no text in the game, so I uninstalled and wiped the reg key. Now there are just no card names. Everything else works ok...
Any Ideas??
Thanks,
Kaos
There seems to be a bug in xfire ( www.xfire.com) that causes the deck editor to lose all the cards except for that one aqua card.
If I close down xfire, the cards appear. Run it, the cards disappear. On / off on / off.
So, to fix the Magic The Gathering: Planes of Shandalar / Spells of the Ancients / Duels of the Planeswalkers invisible / missing cards in the deck editor (deck.exe) problem, I simply closed down good ol' xfire.
None of my other utils (AIM, Logitech joystick applet, kerio firewall, mIRC, etc) caused a problem, nor my Nvidia drivers for my geforce 5200. (Although I did fiddle with the applications specific settings, forcing antialiasing, ansiotropy, etc etc to off, not that I think that was to blame. Can't be bothered to set it back though)
If I close down xfire, the cards appear. Run it, the cards disappear. On / off on / off.
So, to fix the Magic The Gathering: Planes of Shandalar / Spells of the Ancients / Duels of the Planeswalkers invisible / missing cards in the deck editor (deck.exe) problem, I simply closed down good ol' xfire.
None of my other utils (AIM, Logitech joystick applet, kerio firewall, mIRC, etc) caused a problem, nor my Nvidia drivers for my geforce 5200. (Although I did fiddle with the applications specific settings, forcing antialiasing, ansiotropy, etc etc to off, not that I think that was to blame. Can't be bothered to set it back though)
i bought magic the gathering off of ebay. i tried to install it. it said i needed a certain video thing so i downloaded it and it loaded then i tried to install the game and it says only for windows 95. i got all the pacthes and it doesnt work. what do i have to do. ive been to underdogs and everythin. can anyone help me i have all 3 game, duels of the planeswalker, and spells of the ancients.
i got mine to work and manalink, too. no bugs, it seems. but now i want to play online and all the manalink websites were shut down.
how can i meet people online to play?
thanks, e-mail me if you can, Radakassst@yahoo.com
how can i meet people online to play?
thanks, e-mail me if you can, Radakassst@yahoo.com
Well, I downloaded the 76 meg file from HotU and unzipped it, so the files are now residing in C:/Magic. I noticed that the archive seemed to have Manalink 1.3 and unofficial patch 1.3.2 already installed, so I didn't install them (again). I double-clicked the "Magic.reg" file to apply the registry changes. Everything seems to be working perfectly! All the cards show in the deck builder; Shandalar works great (if a little fast), I get in AND out of duels with (almost) no problems (some text goes by to fast to read when the screen changes), and even got Manalink to work over by wireless network at home. I'm running WinXP Home (SP2) on my desktop, and WinXP Pro (SP2) on my laptop, and there seem to be no problems with either! My wife is extremely happy, which can only mean good things for me!
--Dave
--Dave
First off I'd like to thank the people on this forum for providing the needed insight into getting this lovely game to run on my XP-computer.
I do however have one question which I can't really figure out myself. I have the mage installed and working fine, but now I have to reformat the drive it's on. I would therefore of course like to keep my saved games. But I can't find them! There is a Savedgames-directory but that is empty. I have also found a savedescs-file which contain the names of my savegames. I have found som suspicious files named magic3.fce magic3.map and magic3.sve
My suspicion is that these are the saved games but in order to move them and later put them back in, I sort of want to be sure.
So does anyone know how to extract and later insert saved games? If so I would be very grateful.
I do however have one question which I can't really figure out myself. I have the mage installed and working fine, but now I have to reformat the drive it's on. I would therefore of course like to keep my saved games. But I can't find them! There is a Savedgames-directory but that is empty. I have also found a savedescs-file which contain the names of my savegames. I have found som suspicious files named magic3.fce magic3.map and magic3.sve
My suspicion is that these are the saved games but in order to move them and later put them back in, I sort of want to be sure.
So does anyone know how to extract and later insert saved games? If so I would be very grateful.
Hi!... I have a little problem with magic the gathering on XP coz when im going to install he says: "C:\Windows\system32\Autoexec.NT . The system file is not suitable for running MS-Dos and Microsoft Windows applications." What do i do??
Hey all,
Very handy download, first time the game's worked since I installed XP. I can run Shandalar, but whenever I try to battle someone, anyone, the game freezes. It can't make the transition from the world map to the duel. If I ctrl+alt+delete to exit shandalar, just as the program is shut down, duel pops up, the coin is flipped, and then that program is shut down too. I noticed this question was asked earlier in the thread but there was no answer. Any help would be appreciated.
-Legume
Very handy download, first time the game's worked since I installed XP. I can run Shandalar, but whenever I try to battle someone, anyone, the game freezes. It can't make the transition from the world map to the duel. If I ctrl+alt+delete to exit shandalar, just as the program is shut down, duel pops up, the coin is flipped, and then that program is shut down too. I noticed this question was asked earlier in the thread but there was no answer. Any help would be appreciated.
-Legume
Man this website help me out a lot, I fanilly was able to view the cards on screen and use the deckbuilder. Only thing I still have a problem with is running Manalink, every time I click on it nothing happens. Only way I can get it to run is to do Setup all over again, which doent take long to do since it not much to installing it but wish I could just run it without doing that.
I've tried every possible thing listed on this post, the only thing that this has fixed is the text in the game. It's not my mouse, I've installed the new patch, the program is in c:/magic/program, I can't get my cards to show up in Shandalar in the deck editor, making it impossible to add my lands. If anyone knows how to fix this please post here, or email me at stoutprimeplaya@yahoo.com.
Hi all i fasllowed the instructions and got the downlaod and it all works good other then Shandalar. When i try to run it i get this error "couldn't load the strings from the AdvBlocks.text file" any help would be muuch apriated.
Thanks
Thanks
Hi,
I installed VMware virtual comp program, installed a win98 machine, installed mtg and manalink... everything works fine. EXCEPT: the speed is inmense, its uncontrollable, im constantly beeing harrased by duelers and i cant normally seek a town to edit my deck or such... anyone having this same prob? know how to adjust speeds or something... help me out yo
Thanks.
deleeuw.
I installed VMware virtual comp program, installed a win98 machine, installed mtg and manalink... everything works fine. EXCEPT: the speed is inmense, its uncontrollable, im constantly beeing harrased by duelers and i cant normally seek a town to edit my deck or such... anyone having this same prob? know how to adjust speeds or something... help me out yo
Thanks.
deleeuw.
Hey guys, I have a brand new problem for you. I just recently downloaded all three games (MTG, DotP, and SotA). I just recently bought a new computer (in March). This is my first time trying to install this game on this computer, but my old computer also had Windows XP on it. I originally had alot of these old problems, but now I've got brand new ones. Duel.exe and Shandalar.exe don't do anything at all when I click on them. The cursor gets the hourglass for about a half a second, then nothing. Deck builder gives me this message:
"WinMain: Coulnd't create the palette". I've tried all the solutions here, but I couldn't see anyone who had this particular trouble. Any help would be most appreciated>
"WinMain: Coulnd't create the palette". I've tried all the solutions here, but I couldn't see anyone who had this particular trouble. Any help would be most appreciated>
I just Downloaded this game from underdog, I have the manalink patch installed and the game works but there is no text...I'm sure this has been addressed before but if anyone out there would be willing to help me fix this I would appreciate it. Everything works fine but the text...there is'nt even any text on the main menu.
thanks in advance
thanks in advance
