Pickman Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 I have found my old X-Com Games and somebody has given me a Pentium PC /133Mhz/64 MB RAM/S3 Trio64V+PCI Grapic card as a present.I've tried to run X-COM:UFO and TFTD under Windows 98SE. UFO starts only with Small.exe and crashes if the tactical-mission start.I can start TFTD normal but the same result if I come to the Tactical Area.WHY!!! I missed X-COM a lot. WHO CAN HELP ME?? Thanks ahead. (PS: Sorry! I`m learning English at the moment.Hope Somebody can understand what I mean) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brattern Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 your english is good Pickman. i probably know bout a fix, called the f0dder patch, or something. it helped me with the graphics, and it might help you with your tac problem. i dont know where to find it, but it is mentioned several places in the forum. hope this helped you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickman Posted December 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 First, thanx Brattern for your reply. Unfortunately I'm not a owner of the collector editon so the patch doesn't work.I've tried the virtual Pc & Moslo on my newer machine. The message box build up very slowly and music sometimes make strange noises, but it works good enough to play my favorite game. But if anybody outthere have another idea I woud be glad to hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Photon Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 Try to see if your soundcard configuration in Windows matches the soundcard configuration defined by the setup program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brattern Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 try vdmsound, it's a dos "sound-emulator" for windovs, thath might work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickman Posted December 5, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 The Soundcard is not the problem.I have tried different configuration and without a soundcard,too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Photon Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 mmm... do you have the same problem when you start a new game and go to the first tactical mission? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickman Posted December 5, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 Yes, everytime when I landed with my Triton. Normaly there would be a change of the screen and a question to start the mission. But on my PIII the Screen freeze in and nothing happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted December 6, 2002 Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 Can you try running the game in pure dos mode? - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickman Posted December 6, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 I've tried it with MSdos6.0 with the same result.I've had the idea that maybe RAM-Chips are damaged and have changed them but it has nothing to do with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Photon Posted December 6, 2002 Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 Then maybe the TACTICAL.EXE file is corrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickman Posted December 6, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 No it can't be corrupt, `cause it runs on my P4 with Virtual PC but too fast and with Moslo or something like it has little jumps and strange music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Photon Posted December 7, 2002 Report Share Posted December 7, 2002 Yea, but you say that it crashes when you go to Tactical... and normally in the rest of the game... but the rest of the game uses GEOSCAPE.EXE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickman Posted December 11, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Yes, I know but the game runs complete (with tactical.exe) on my Virtual PC on my P4. But too fast, so I would like to play it on my older machine.And there it doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 you could try using fodders patch. that might help... although im not sure wether its for collectors edition only or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Photon Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Can't you adjust the emulated PC CPU's speed with Virtual PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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