I purchased the boxed version for the g/f as an xmas present, took me 2 hours to get working. Why? Because of that bloody starforce (or whatever its called now) copy protection. This is the main cause of problems with it, however, once bypassed using patches it runs with no problems on XP.
She says the game is good but i cant get into it, there are only tutorial videos and i cant be bothered to watch them all.