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  1. Hmmm... well Ive failed at getting this to work. It seems, that as I have windows 7 I need to disable the DirectDraw Acceleration as this is causing the grabled graphics issue. In order to disable this I need to use an Application Compatibility Toolkit. Now, Ive no idea what that is or how to use one. Interestingly tho, on Blade Fire Lights website he states that in order to use his Xcom Utility mod you do need this Application Compatability Toolkit. For vista/windows 7. Only there have I seen this mentioned. "XCOM CE runs in Vista and Windows 7 if you install a Application Compatability Toolkit Shim that disables Direct Draw Accelloration. I have created a installer to set this up. The installer is included with XcomUtil 9.7 and later" I cannot find this in my XcomUtil 9.7 download however. If anyone can shine some light on this I'd be very interested to hear from you. In the meantime I shall get on with playing Xcom and not probing it.
  2. Ok, so Ive been trying to get Xcom Utility and Extender mods to work together. However, I suffer from this scrambled graffics issue. Ive run them both separately with no issues. And running them together works fine until I enter a battle, once the inventory screen loads the graffics go all psychedelic. Im confused as I intially suffered from this graphics problem and got it resolved by using extender. Ive read Blade Fire Lights comment confirming they do work together and followed the install instructions from Caboose_Nor from the same thread. This didnt work until I ticked all the boxes in my compatibilty options from the properties menu (right clicking on the RunXcom.bat) I could then enter the game with no problems up until the inventory screen. When the game loads to a battle from the geoscape, the game flickers out as utility does its thing, then flicks back to the battlescape inventory menu upon which the graffics go garbled. From then on the graffics remain naff. I assume there is some conflict caused when utility does its bit just before the battle inventory appears causing extenders graffics fix to fail. And hopefully theres a work around for it. Any advice? Is there perhaps another install method or some other patch I can use as well what utility and extender offer? Also, I understand disabling the directdraw is meant to work, but this is not possible on window 7 which is my os. Some details on my system... Windows 7 32bit IntelĀ® Core2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT This pic only shows some of the colours from this graffics error, if you could see my monitor it looks like my PC has chundered after eating a rainbow.
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