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[Tainted Eon]

Alright, I am sure this has been brought up before, but is there a way to slow down the DOS version of Xcom, as well as the EXE one? I tried using DosBox and even brought it to the low 100s, and nothing worked. It's on my fathers, since he loves the game, and he has to use DosBox since he has Vista...how do I slow the two versions down so the Geography clock doesn't go so fast. One day = 10 Days and so forth, it's insane.

[Mighty Midget]

What monster computer does your father have? o_O Bringing the cycles in DOSBox down to the "low 100s", for that game, should rrreeeaaally slow things down. Are you sure you decreased the cycles (by pressing Ctrl + f 11)? Check the number at the top of the DOSBox window. I find it excrutiatingly hard to believe "the low 100s" still made the game run too fast.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Are you _sure_ you're running the game in DOSBox?

Try changing the Core to Normal or Simple in DOSBox.conf.

[_r.u.s.s.]

err you know, there is also this play in 'normal speed' and 'rewind' in-game button :P

[Tainted Eon]

He has Vista, I have XP, we both have 7600s, and 2gigs of ram...and yes I am sure he is running it on DosBox, since I installed it for him and I am sure it was in the 100s, if it goes any lower it lags...and where are the buttons?

[ninjasan8]

Since you have XP and Vista, you might just want to grab the Windows version (Collector's Edition), and it should run fine (runs fine on my XP system and my ME system).

Hi,

I'm not coming to terms with this game: 1 month into the in-game-time, a very large UFO attacks my base and I'm GAME OVER. I restart the whole game, and same happens again. WTF? Any tipps? Plus, I'm having a lot of crashes to the desktop. Any tipps there, too?


Regards,

Michael

[_r.u.s.s.]

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He has Vista, I have XP, we both have 7600s, and 2gigs of ram...and yes I am sure he is running it on DosBox, since I installed it for him and I am sure it was in the 100s, if it goes any lower it lags...and where are the buttons?
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i meant this but then i realised that you probably mean that even those are fast

[Incappucciato d'Ombra]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(UFO Whooper @ Aug 12 2007, 12:29 PM) [snapback]304306[/snapback]</div>

1 month into the in-game-time, a very large UFO attacks my base and I'm GAME OVER. I restart the whole game, and same happens again. WTF? Any tipps?
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Simply be prepared. The first attack to a base always happens between first and second month (depending on how well you play and take in mind that this is a general statement). You know when "it's time" because of this general statement and you should see the Battleship (UFO) coming near to the base, then going away, then approaching again ... for some times, this can give you the time to prepare the defence.

IMPORTANT : this generally don't happens if you don't notice and shoot down the various UFO that come before as "scout", in this case Battleship can DIRECTLY go to base (or even don't appear at all and you receive the attack allert without see nothing, depending on numeber of radar in use)... Take in mind that also this it is a general statement.

Now some general tips :

1) when you know that "the time is becoming" (for the attack) don't send skyraider in mission with soldier, leave ALL soldier ready to defence, even if this means don't attack another UFO (and pray that UFO for terror mission don't appear or you lost an "hills of points")

2) If you have more than 80 item on base, be sure that are ALL usefull, otherwise load them on skyraider and send skyraider away on patrol mission. Be sure it can return only AFTER attack.

3) Now that you have (hopefully) at least 10-12 soldier, equip them with prox grenade (2-3 for each soldier) and other weapon (rifle, grenade, demolition charge )

4) Be sure to arm the prox grenade BEFORE turn begin (when you equip soldier if i remember well, or something similar)

5) Place some soldier on the upper level of magazines (if you have other stuff like prox grenade, rifle clip, grenade and so on) ready to act as "mobile reloading unit" for other soldier.

6) place some soldier quite away from access lift, especially if some of this are armed with rockets, ready to fire at long distance (see below point 8)

7) place about 50% of soldier near access lift and use them to launch the prox grenade on the middle of passage, at a block distance form door, next another about 4-5 block from access lift door and try to launch even in the middle of cross-roads. (i hope that this give the idea, sorry but my english is quite poor :bleh: )

8) retreat the soldiers that have launched grenade behind a corner wall or door, and use them as "spotter" (see point 6) and eventually as prime line, depend on how goes combat.

9) Pray........

I'm having a lot of crashes to the desktop. Any tipps there, too?[/b]

Little can be made for this, UFO 1 & UFO 2 crashes often :tai: First of all try to change version (like DOS version, using DOSbox, instead of the windows version or viceversa), or try playing with setting and pray...

but take in mind that you will however experience an high numbers of crashes... it's a fault of the game :tai:

hey so im not that good at this kinda muck so if someone could help me out

first of all i cannot figure out wat to open to run this in dosbox
i have dosbox and its all setup properly. i can run other games
but what do i have to do for the game to actually run like i tried setup and install but i cant figure it out

or is there a program to slow down the windows version becasue i can get it to run in windows but it goes way 2 fast.

thanks a lot