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http://www.stonepool.com/xcom/ That editor. I use it to shuffle around my first base and change a few stats on my starting soldiers so I don't have to buy 100 soldiers and sort through the rejects. Crashes have never happened on startup when I have used these editors. Editing really has no effect on crashes?

Do using editors such as the Windows based editor or copy/pasting old soldier files into new games contribute to crashes?

So if I were to just stop using Fodder's loader, it would work? Xcomutil provides some kind of workaround for this?

Honestly, its just bizzare. 9/10 it crashes when I ENTER combat, just after the briefing screen. And its pretty hard to reproduce the bug since since it only shows up about a year or so into the game. Its unbelievably discouraging.

I don't actually have a save file right now. And it isn't a specific save file anyway, every game I play gets corrupted eventually.

There doesn't appear to be any pattern. The save file is corrupted and I just simply can't advance past a certain point. I have got X-COM Gold. It happens eventually in EVERY campaign. I would just start over again, but it gets tiring getting defeated by crashes instead of aliens. I have put down and picked up the game 6 times because of this bug.

I thought I had posted last night, but I guess the post didn't take. I am talking about this bug: Game crash, program quits to desktop - random Lots of reasons and solutions: This can also be caused by a corrupt saved game. Some time within the past two months (of game time) when you saved your game, the files became corrupted. This is a bug that has been in the game since the beginning and never fixed because it is somewhat unusual. The only way around this bug is to delete the files in the corrupted save's folder, load an older saved game (that hopefully is not corrupted) and save over the now-blank spot. To check to see if an older saved game is corrupted, use the 1 Day button to speed up the game to the time when the crash occurred in the first saved game. If the saved game gets past that designated crash time, the files are good. Two tips to avoid this bug in the future: Save often and in alternating save spots, and DO NOT save while an interception window is minimized. There is a bug in UFO Defense that is caused by researching the floater medic. When the research of this alien is completed, the results are shown and when you click any button, the game crashes. Reload your most recent saved game and cancel the floater medic research. Do not research it again (unless you want your game to crash again....) If you are using the Collector's Edition, consider using the patched executable available here. For an explanation of what this executable does, read this post (but disregard the errors about scientists - that has been fixed) I save in roughly a million different save slots too. I have the same problem with TFTD, even its steam Version.

For the last 10 years, on every machine I have tried it on, I have managed to get X-COM to run, no problem, not even needing dosbox. Unfortunately, I have only beaten it once because of the save file corruption issues. Has anyone ever solved the save file corruption issues? I am running XP, and I wanna play the game again, but I don't wanna have to worry about saving every 5 minutes so I don't get screwed by a game crash. On a related note, if I can't manage to get it to work, could you guys suggest an alternative? I have heard alot about the UFO series, but none from X-COM fans.