MTG DOTP 2013 fatal error !

[Tom]

i have tried litruly everything possible with this game to try to get it to run but still no joy i know people have had trouble in the past with this issue but just putting it out there to see if anyon has found a fix . thanks

[Yxanthymir]

I don't know if it is the same error, but the game is crashing a lot when I use my computer with windows 8. When I use the one with windows 7 it doesn't crash frequently. But both crash everytime I try to unlock the promo cards.

[Silver]

Guys, I encountered the same error like you and I managed to fix it. What you need to do is the following:

Open (with notepad or some other text editor) the config.cfg file located in the filepath:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Magic 2013

Once you have opened it, you will see a line of text something like:

[width]1920[height]1080[refresh]59[aa_mode]2[depth]32[fullscreen]1[reflections]0[language]0[quality]1[SFX]1[NumShadow]3[ShadowQual]1

These are your saved graphics settings, the values could be slightly different on your PC than what I posted above which were on mine.

Now I play my games on a 16:10 (rather than 16:9) monitor with the resolution 1920x1200 (rather than a 16:9's 1920x1080). But because in my .cfg file, as posted above, it said 1080 for height, the game crashed every time I started it because apparently it causes a fatal error if there is a different resolution written in the .cfg file than what your monitor's usual/current resolution is.

So I changed the value from 1080 to 1200 to properly reflect my 16:10 monitor's width in pixels, and then the game launched perfectly for me. This error popped up a few days later for me again (maybe it is caused if you play another game and change resolution?). Anyway, I redid these steps and the game now launches again.

If this does NOT work, you can instead try to change the number after [fullscreen] from 1 to 0. That way the game will launch in windowed mode, which is at least something. You could then change the settings inside the game to enable fullscreen and then relaunch the game and see if the error goes away.

If that did NOT work either, you could try finding the game's exe (called DotP_D13.exe) and located in the game folder whose file path I have provided above, right-click it, go to properties, click on the compatibility tab, and make sure the settings look like this:

https://i.imgur.com/WahHXKA.png

Hope this helps