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[daniel3ub]

Hi, folks.

I'm having a weird problem trying to run XCOM 1.
My machine is an athlon xp 1200 mhz, geforce 4 440 mx, win xp sp2 french.
i'm running dosbox version 0.65 and d-fend v2.

if i try to run the win version, all I get is a messed up screen. I can even identify the opening sequence, one can see that the game is running, but the screen is all messed up. If i click the mouse I can figure out that the main menu is shown and the mouse cursor is responding, BUT the screen is bad.

Then i've tried the dos version, using dosbox. all i got was a window showing on its title the words "geoscape", "tactical" and "black", being shown very quickly on the title bar. IF i change the video mode to CGA or HERCULES, I can read a hundred "not enough memory on exec" being shown on the screen. then, if i turn on the option "loadfix", i get the following result:

loadfix -[value] call full.bat
[value] kb allocated.
[value] kb freed.

and the nasty dosbox prompt.

if i try to run SETUP.EXE it just gives me the dosbox cursor again, without doing nothing.

the strange part is that a friend of mine just runs the win version fine, using win xp too. So i think is a video card issue.

any clue? any idea? just read all topics in all forums about dosbox and xcom, and didin't figure out the problem.

thanks.