I just installed Xcom from your site but im having problems.

I downloaded the windows version, it works perfect except for the sound, i really like the sound in xcom as it creates the atmosphere like no other game ive ever played ..... so:

I installed the DOS version in the Dosbox window but now i have no sound at all, not even effects, i do notice however that you have all music files available on the xcom page, is this to solve the problem or something?
if it is i dont know what to do or where to put them.

Anyway i tried searching these 200 odd pages of information, i found alot of people with the same problem have posted but no solution has worked for me, i tried making the sound settings 220, 7, 1 blah blah but that doesnt work, i tried starting with the go, full, short blah blah modes but none work either. Please help, all this reading about the game really gets you rearing to play it.

Im running XP if that helps.

Floaters = almost free stuff
Even rookie T-shirts have hard time dying...

BTW - I've yet to see floaters at all (I'm with mutons right now)!

:sos:
This is my favorite game of all time; can someone help me?
I used to be able to play, it, I believe the version from here, but then my computer crashed and I had to format my drive. :ranting: Now I can't get the graphics to work properly, the colors get all screwed up, for example on the opening screen the "Microprose" letters are light blue instead of red. Also, the screen resolution is too big, it goes off the screen. I am using the Abandonia version, running it from the UFO with the sun logo. I have tried all the compatiability options, including 256 colors and 640x420 resolution. This is really frustrating :wallbash: as the busted graphics make it difficult to see bordering on impossible. Thanks!
PS. I am using a Intel 84845G/GL/GE/PE/GV graphics card.
PPS. Great game, otherwise.

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot this the first time- I have WinXP Home.

Make sure you're using the right executable. There are two in the Windows version, I think the yellow one is the right one for XP, not sure, if it doesn't work try the other. And for the DOS version you must run UFOCD.BAT.

Yeah, I am using the yellow sun. Thanks, though. This is really confusing because the screen is not compressed at the top or anything- just screwed up colors.

Have you tried that exe *without* the compatibility mode?

Yep, that's where original problem happened....

Tried DosBox?

Yeah... won't run.

Download the DOS version, then use DOSBox to make it run. If it still doesn't run, look for a different .bat file to run the game after you're run the setup.exe file and set up the sound to default soundblaster support.

It can't fail. I did it numerous times, I have two or three "UFOTEST" folders in my game folder. Never failed to work for me. :)