I mean, I'm using dosbox on just enough cycles to make it playable. proper windows is too slow with no sound.

Hmm I have the sound problem as well. It goes on about a write protection that has to be removed, when i try the sound setup through dosbox. I have VIA AC'97 Audio (Wave) on a laptop . Any suggestions?

Hi guys

apologies if this has already been answered somewhere, but I can't get this bloody game running smoothly in XP at all, I've tried Dosbox, VDMS, swearing at the computer etc... it's always REALLY choppy.

Any ideas, suggestions etc would be welcome

Cheers

MG

Help! I try to run this game in dosbox and what ever the sound configuration; when i load it it just freezes! I love Xcom Please help. This also happened with another game called Bratrayal at Krondor. It just lodas and freezes. Im going to try no sound config now.

Sorry can't help. :whistle:

Only that yes this game is uncomprehensibly buggy. And not only that, it's the same game that the original UFO, only with other resources, mainly graphics, but it takes around seven times as much hard drive space! And yes it's choppy while the original UFO was smooth and yes the graphics are very poorly drawn compared to the original UFO. I personally think that the developers really put their feet in this game. :not_ok:

By the way, I manage to run it under DOS 6.22 (real not emulated).

If Dosbox doesn't work, try VDM Sound, thats usually pretty good

Has anybody got any bright ideas as to how I can get this onto my old 486 ?

(I assume your 486 uses Windows, but it's too slow for DOSBox? How can you run Windows in a 486? You must have expanded its RAM, haven't you?)

I don't know if it's bright, but you could use my solution. I installed good old DOS 6.22 in a partition of the hard drive, and I can boot either in Windows (normally) or in DOS (real DOS not "DOS mode" or anything, for playing old games). Then it's not *as if* you were running such game under DOS, it's that you *are* running such game under DOS.

What peripherals does your 486 have?

If it has a cd-rom, you download it and burn it to a CD. If not, you will need to download a floppy version (zipped onto four 1.4 meg 3.5" floppies) and copy it over. If you are technically inclined, mount the 486's hard drive into your internet box and copy the files directly.