Aceofclubs Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Okay, heres my problem, Ive currently went through the game once without any aid of editor or anything of that nature, so I figuered it might be fun to mod around the files. However I have purchased the 5 dollar complete series of X-com games from Direct 2 Drive, and Im having a bit of difficulty getting any of the utility programs to work. If it helps anything as well, my running system is vista. The direct 2 Drive version uses DosBox, however, solutions that would normally work (or so says a friend of mine) have not worked on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Check the Steam Versions page at the X-COM Wiki. That should allow you to get the best of both worlds. (D2D and Steam are nearly identical). Hope this helps. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aceofclubs Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Check the Steam Versions page at the X-COM Wiki. That should allow you to get the best of both worlds. (D2D and Steam are nearly identical). Hope this helps. - Zombie Tried that, but I get a load of access denied bits when I try for the install, Im not sure how to get around it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 The folder is read-only. I tried to untick it from the properties box but it didn't work. If anyone knows of a way to get rid of the read-only tick, please let me know - it's been bothering me for a long time. Edit: maybe this will help? - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aceofclubs Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 The folder is read-only. I tried to untick it from the properties box but it didn't work. If anyone knows of a way to get rid of the read-only tick, please let me know - it's been bothering me for a long time. Edit: maybe this will help? - Zombie Not quiet, I tried fooling around with the read permissions (the files within the folder are archive types not read only, however the folder itself is different), though I cant quiet seem to change the folder itself for some damned reason. Damned anti cheat technology . Edit- Would there be an easier way to just modify unit/item stats instead of this? It seems overly difficult otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Edit- Would there be an easier way to just modify unit/item stats instead of this? It seems overly difficult otherwise.Sure, that would work (assuming the permissions allow it). Jenny's editor is great for stuff like this. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aceofclubs Posted October 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Sure, that would work (assuming the permissions allow it). Jenny's editor is great for stuff like this. - Zombie Love the editor, shame it doesn't work for me . Freaking hell they went all out on updating the "anti cheat" parameters on this damned thing! Frick, I knew I should have bought the steam version. My problem is saying "X-com: Dos v1.4 detected! Please keep in mind that all changes made are permanent!" Also that despite having saves, there is no record of any shown on the save profile area of the editor (and even trying to edit the base files seems to do nothing.) Edit- attached is a pic of said problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Love the editor, shame it doesn't work for me . Freaking hell they went all out on updating the "anti cheat" parameters on this damned thing! Frick, I knew I should have bought the steam version. My problem is saying "X-com: Dos v1.4 detected! Please keep in mind that all changes made are permanent!" Also that despite having saves, there is no record of any shown on the save profile area of the editor (and even trying to edit the base files seems to do nothing.)Hmm, I tried it and it works just fine for me. Did you put Jenny's Editor in the "XCOM" folder (where all the game files reside) and not a level up? - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aceofclubs Posted October 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Hmm, I tried it and it works just fine for me. Did you put Jenny's Editor in the "XCOM" folder (where all the game files reside) and not a level up? - Zombie Yep, I did, "XCOM" folder it is in. Frick. Im mad now, eff'n D2D, last time they get my money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Logged in as an Admin? Not that I have much hope for this working either, but you never know. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aceofclubs Posted October 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Logged in as an Admin? Not that I have much hope for this working either, but you never know. - Zombie account is currently admin, no possitive results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 I'm running out of ideas but how about re-downloading it from D2D and installing it directly on the C: drive? The only difference between us is the operating system (I'm XP, you Vista) so a Vista setting may be to blame as well. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwalk Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 I've had big Vista issues with other stuff before. I recall that it wouldn't let me patch Civ II for the same reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 A note on vista: even if you're using an admin account it still requires confirmation to increase privilege levels with most "high risk" actions. If it's an application you could try right-clicking on it an choose to run with administrator privileges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGCSG1 Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Does this work? I wonder about these new versions of x-com and running xutil. It adds so much to the game I'd hate to be back to running the vanilla version. All comments welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Merged this topic with another identical one. Read the above and see if anything helps. My guess is Vista is to blame, but I'm not 100% sure on it. Works fine on my XP machine. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 I dont know if this is relivant to D2D, however it does effect XcomUtil and Xcom CE Now as for Vista. If your program is in the "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" folder then all changes made my windows programs are in c:\users\%username%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\ As nice as this is from a businss security standpoint it sucks from a gamer's perspective. You can never find the saved games or INI's older games stored there. Now hers is the Catch.. The Command prompt dosent have access to the Virtualstore and so any dos program gets a Access Denied trying to access the files, To top that off Xcom CE also has some files flaged as ReadOnly. to get anything to work you first have to as an administrator grand the Users group write access, then you can remove the ReadOnly attribute. One the bright Side XcomUtil 9.7 will be able to do this automatically. I have no plans to get the D2D version at this time so I have no clue if 9.7 will work on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 It's enough to make a guy want to go back to FAT32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 It's enough to make a guy want to go back to FAT32. Only if you have lots of really small drives. I can see it now. Xcom folder size 10Mb Size on Disk 300mb Fat 32's file overhang is something I never want to deal with again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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