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  1. Actually, that did solve the problem, thanks. As I said before, I tried that but the picture I got was just a black screen with a colour-inverted pointer (I tried this on the main menu so I guessed that it would be the same for all Unfortunately there's another problem now - I get error messages during the game telling me that the game's 'encountered a problem and needs to close'. This tends to start happening after one or two hours of playing the game (or it might be linked to getting to the middle of March in the game) but if I save a game and come back to it later the problem still occurs. In the saved game I have it happens after a hangar at my second base is built, but if I dismantle the hangar it doesn't happen. Is this a typical error and if so how do you fix this?
  2. I'm not very good with the technical aspects of computers but I think I have a Radeon 9600 with the latest official driver (and I think I saw 'Catalyst' somewhere when I was changing the hardware acceleration). Actually, is it possible that the problem's caused by having a graphics driver that's too advanced, given that the game's 15 years old?
  3. I downloaded the gold version of X-COM UFO Defense (is this the same as the CE version?) but whenever I play it the graphics appear incorrectly. From what I've read graphical problems are fairly common when running this game on XP until you get one of a variety of programs to fix it, but none of the problems described by other people seem to match mine. When I run the game parts of the screen will appear shifted to the left by about a quarter of the screen's width, whereas the other graphical problems I've read about involve the entire screen being scrambled and unreadable. Unfortunately when I try to get a screenshot the resultant picture is black with a colour-inverted pointer. There's no problem with the sound and no other problems with the graphics. I already have patch.dll, xcom1fix.exe and ldr_XCOM1.exe but none of them solve this problem. I've also tried disabling directdraw acceleration and changing the hardware acceleration but neither of these actions helps with the problem either. If it's important, whenever I try to load xcom1fix using ldr_XCOM1 I get the following error message: 'Couldn't read process memory'. When I load the normal .exe with the loader it runs fine but I still get this problem. Are there any other programs or actions that can fix this?
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