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Hi

I recently dowloaded this, for some reason won't work in DosBox but works in Windows XP fine, barring one bug that crashes the game to the desktop if I'm in the battlescape and try to move a HWP. It only happens every now and again, but enough to annoy me. Does anyone know of a patch/remedy for this.

Cheers

You can download a patch at xcomufo.com, but this site seems to be down. Dunno why. Who has a working link for the XP Patch?

I remember playing this game as a kid on my daddy's pentium 3. Now that I'm grown up it takes a diffrent light. All in All a good game but a few things about it really bug me, 1st of all is the fact that your rookie and squaddie grade troops have on average a 30% accuracy which wouldnt even pass for a basic firearms test in the army and these are supposed to be the best of the best..., Secondly the electro flares? WTF nobody has ever heard of night vision goggles. I think the troops should of been experience based instead of there level being based on how many troops are under your employ. Other then a few grief's still a classic game and I wish that good TBS games were still being made today because they are my favorite type, modern games are all fluff and no stuff

Theres so many posts here, I'll have given up on trying to play it by the time I've finished reading all of the posts for an answer to my question. :wallbash:

Using the Window version of the game, I've tried both startups: Ufo Defense.exe and UFO.exe. I've even downloaded a patch from...somewhere and tried that to load the game. Everything works famously until I make it to my first battle scenario. I accept the challenge and the game looks like its going to the battle, but it quits on me...Just as the fun is about to start.

Everything else works: Base, Research, Geoscape, Intercept, etc... But I can't find a reason that the game is crapping out on me and it isn't nice enough to tell me either.

Again I'm running the CD version of the game on Windows XP. If anyone has any ideas on how I fix this little problem please let me know. At the very least point me to the pages in this forum where this exact question was answered a dozen times before.

Thanks

[Cockroach]

From the way it sounds you are running the game straight from the CD without actually installing it. That's the only way I have EVER seen it play fine in the geoscape but never run in battlescape.

[Stickfigurezilla]

Guest 105397 here...liked the site so much I joined up.

Downloaded the game from this site, so I only got a zip file. No install file included. If I'm missing something, I'll be the first to tell me I'm stupid...that is unless you point my fault and call me stupid in the same post. But I digress.

[Japo]

Don't worry, you only have to unzip that into a folder of your choice and then the game will be ready for playing. It's not self-extracting as you say so you'll have to use WinZip or another program or the WinXP integrated ZIP feature.

[Stickfigurezilla]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Japofran @ Oct 13 2006, 11:27 AM) [snapback]261029[/snapback]</div>

Don't worry, you only have to unzip that into a folder of your choice and then the game will be ready for playing. It's not self-extracting as you say so you'll have to use WinZip or another program or the WinXP integrated ZIP feature.
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Apparently, the first time I unzipped the folder, not everything was placed into the new folder. Didn't have missdata folder or the save game folders. Probably missed some other important type files. Everything seems to be in great shape. Thanks :brain:

Hello,

sorry i couldy read all posts, there just roo many.

i love this game but i always have the problem, that it throws me on the desktop and shut the game down.

i am using win xp sp2. is anyone aware of this problem and knows a solution?

thanks

[Horoma]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Iceaw @ Oct 18 2006, 03:38 PM) [snapback]261949[/snapback]</div>

Hello,

sorry i couldy read all posts, there just roo many.

i love this game but i always have the problem, that it throws me on the desktop and shut the game down.

i am using win xp sp2. is anyone aware of this problem and knows a solution?

thanks
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Oct 18 2006, 08:04 PM) [snapback]262007[/snapback]</div>

ok i tried DOSBOX.

i installed it as it was discibt at the readme.exe, but i still cannot start the game.
i mounted the directory as d:\. but if try to start the game with ufo.exe the program says that this game cannot be run in dos mod o_O

is there a special trick?
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Then you have the windows version, so you shouldn't use dosbox. When exactly does the game boot you to the desktop ? If it closes down when you're going to a mission, you might have the same problem that was discussed a few post higher.