Listen, people, help me, pleeeeeaaaaase :sos:

I use Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, and have installed XCom-3.
Everything is fine... until the game starts!
I can only watch the intro sequence, that's all!!!
After it ends (or I press ESC), the game just exits without any messages!

I've tried to configure it to run without any sound, but the problem still remains!!!

On my virtual PC, I use Windows 95. I thought that's the problem, but even when I installed XCom under DOS, the game acts exactly the same way - just instead of quitting to the prompt, it causes a "Virtual PC fatal error (3)", which causes the virtual PC to reset.

When the game is being installed, all the requirements are ok - even the files/buffers and the CD-ROM speed!

I just don't know what to do...

My host OS is Window XP Professional (SP2). Under it the game runs much worse with the same problem!
This also relates to DOSBox.

The same problem everywhere - intro sequence is shown, but the game doesn't want to start!!! Not even the main menu... :(


Maybe the problem is that I don't have a real "X-Com Apocalypse" CD, so I use a grabbed CD image in a virtual CD-ROM drive created by Paragon CD-drive emulator??? The CD image was grabbed from an original CD.
That original CD had no problems while installing or running the game some years ago on a Pentium-166 with Windows 98 as an OS.

It seems that the problem might come from your copy of the game.
Try the one up on Abandonia (it's still here, right?).

Yeah, it's there...

...the only problem is that right now I'm at the work, not at home. And after the downloading has completed I'll need to burn that onto my CD-RW, and...

What the *******! :tai: :angry: :tai: :angry:
I've forgotten my CD-RW at home today! :tomato:
I won't be able to burn and try Abandonia XCom! :wallbash: :wallbash:

*hit! :'(

I splited your topic with the old one, ShadowLord.

Please do not resurect old topics from the dead. On this forum the rule is one thread per problem per person. Resurecting old topics only result in big messy thread nobody like to peruse to help the specific person.

Oh, I'm sorry for that! :whistling:

I was so disappointed that posted into two threads wanting some help as quick as possible... :tomato:
Shame on me! :)


Well, today I have my RW with me at my work. and I'm gonna burn those aliens down on it!!! :titan:

Yeah, with version from Abandonia everything works just fine ^_^
As all we thought, it is that Paragon CD image which should be blamed :sneaky:


But there's one point which disappoints me with abandonia version - it's without music!!! :'(

It's such a pity!!! I can't play this game without music... :(

Well, what format is your CD-image? ISO, by chance? If your machine can run DosBox (which is way better then VPC2K4, IMO) you can use its internal virtual drive module, IMGMOUNT, to mount the CD-image like any normal CD.
Tried it myself, and it works quite well.

Thanks for advice!

But my image isn't ISO, it's in some Paragon-format (only Paragon understands it) :(
Plus I've deleted it after I've tried everything and it didn't want to work :rifle: :D

And also I agree with you, DOSBox is much better than VPC!!!
Well, I always used DOSBox to play games. VPC was just a try to run X-Com 3.

Also, Strife runs in VPC much smoother than in DOSBox (although, in DOSBox it's quite smooth too, but on VPC it's just REAL). So I also wanted to play Strife on VPC as well, but after some minutes of play I was VERY disappointed - the music was SO AWFULLY awful ( :D )!!! DOSBox emulates sound cards much better, than VPC!!! And now I don't know what to choose - smoothiness of VPC, or music and sounds of DOSBox :blink:

And as for X-Com, it seems that I'll have to find my that old friend with the original CD, and make an ISO copy of it (or ask him to make me a present :hypocrite: )

problems with x-com3, intro is working fine with vdms but the menu screen is a mess and I can't
start the game. With dosbox sound doesn't work and game slooooooooooowwwww.

I have windows XP professional SP2 and I've tried almost every version of Apocalypse that I've found over the net. Does somebody know where to find iso image of this game. That I haven't tried. Paragon image is on my computer but that doesn't work.

Has anyone encountered this problem I have??

Hope that someone could help me :sos:

Yes, I encountered this problem with Apocalypse. I never managed to make it work on this very computer, and I really tryied everything.

The game always runned fine on my Win98 machine and on other XP machine tough.