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  1. May be in the wrong place, but couldn't find a more suitable one... Anyone got a source for buying the CE? I'm currently borrowing my brothers but I want to get my own. None on ebay or Play.com Any ideas?
  2. Thats right, the f0dder patch fixes the garbled graphics that you get when you try to run UFO or TFTD (From the CE) through XP.
  3. They just don't like us very much. Particularly civilians.
  4. I'm just using the f0dder patch on its own. Ah well, like you say, saving every so often is the way to go. Not a problem thats going to stop me playing, especially as its only happened the once to date.
  5. I was playing UFO the other day after finally getting it working on XP. Only a few missions in so I didn't have much in the way of soldiers or equipment, a couple of squaddies and a sarge, and the rest rookies. Anyways, I get a Terror mission in Lima. I land the craft and mostly empty it as I get a couple of targets and I want maximum shots on the aliens. It all goes a bit pear shaped and about 3 or 4 troops end up eating grenade. A couple more get shot. One panics, but thats it. Payback time? not quite, get a few shots off including from the tank but to no effect. The next alien turn, they carry on shooting and even have the brass neck to MC one of my troops and use them to cap another one. The tank even panics and its game over. The upshot? Thanks to XP the game then crashes out and back to the desktop, the last save I made was before the terror mission. Thanks Bill! (Course the same thing will probably happen the next time I play and get another Terror mission, but I guess thats life!)
  6. On the subject of tanks, I had a tank panic the other day. To be fair though, the squad were being wiped out all around. I was relying on it to even the odds up a bit too. Needless to say, the mission was not the success I, or the good people of Lima, were hoping for.
  7. So I've got the Collectors Edition, but when I tried to install and load UFO, got garbled graphics and that was it. Stumbled across this site, and specifically this forum. So I've downloaded f0dder's patch and Turbo, and the game works and at a playable speed. Admittedly I've got to strangle my 3.4 P4 down to 30%, but its worth it for that classic gameplay! However I do still have an occasional problem, I'll be playing the game as usual when without warning the monitor will refresh itself back to the desktop. Normally I can just click on the X-Com tab and get back into the game. A couple of times it has crashed all the way out. Any ideas? Its not such a major problem that it stops me playing, but I would like to know if there is a solution. Ta.
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