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[Danny252]

movies, yes. Music aswell.

[SupSuper]

Originally posted by Danny252@Nov 28 2005, 04:59 PM
movies, yes. Music aswell.

The movies hardly take up anything, though the music is about 300MB :w00t:

Ermh. Heya, all. I've browsed through the Troubleshooting thread on running games on DosBox, but I'm still experiencing some trouble. Here's the detail:

- Game runs, sound effects and all.
- Every time I enter a 9-stories high map or someone starts blasting away at my troopers with a rocket launcher, the game begins to lag very much. Can't move my soldiers or tactic at all. The lag is considerably lesser around the edges of the combat area. Don't know why.

I've currently altered DosBox to use 500 megabytes of memory and cycles are at 20k and my resolution in dosbox is 800 by 600 and the game is running under VGA setting. Still, every time there's a map with many floors or someone goes around shooting with a rocket launcher, the game almost freezes and it's impossible to play. Any tips or suggestions on how to fix this? Should I post my system specs?

Addition to the last post: I've tried downloading DOS32A v7.33 from the link provided on this thread, but I just get a page telling me that "This page cannot be displayed" and couldn't try that one out.

Hey, I just found this game and I've been having trouble. The game works fine without DosBox, but I don't get sounds and my mouse is moving in slow motion. How can I fix these two? :help:

[SupSuper]

Originally posted by Captain Joe the Rocket attractor@Dec 1 2005, 01:07 PM
Hey, I just found this game and I've been having trouble. The game works fine without DosBox, but I don't get sounds and my mouse is moving in slow motion. How can I fix these two? :help:

To get sound you have to use either VDMSound or DOSBox.

Don't know about the sluggish mouse though.

:w00t:

It worked! Thank you so much! The sluggish mouse isn't really a problem either (remembered that the screen can be moved with keys, so I pretty much keep the mouse centered on the middle of the screen). Just like old times...Thanks, SupSuper.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Use VDMSound, the game will work better then in DosBox.

[Calabite]

Man I need some help here. I'm a great fan of the x-com series. I maybe the only one who favours apocalypse the most.

I have a laptop which runs intel display drivers and it doesn't seem to want me to run apoc at all. I really need a wirehead to help me work this out. I can't play using dosbox without overheating this damn machine and while the program runs fine in xp, I can't get a true display. I get that weird "built in lines of static" deal that xp seems to make of old games.

So, anyone want some praise for their technical abilities or am I just sunk?

Mike

[SupSuper]

Originally posted by Calabite@Dec 3 2005, 01:55 AM
Man I need some help here.* I'm a great fan of the x-com series.* I maybe the only one who favours apocalypse the most.*

I have a laptop which runs intel display drivers and it doesn't seem to want me to run apoc at all.* I really need a wirehead to help me work this out.* I can't play using dosbox without overheating this damn machine and while the program runs fine in xp, I can't get a true display.* I get that weird "built in lines of static" deal that xp seems to make of old games.

So, anyone want some praise for their technical abilities or am I just sunk?

Mike

Have you tried disabling DirectDraw before running it? (sometimes it causes that problem)

Start > Run > dxdiag > Display > DirectDraw Acceleration > Disable > OK.

Don't forget to enable it again afterwards.