Well i can start the game like it shoud do.. and play i little.. doin my thing...
then i come to a mission (this is like 2 mins in the game)
i send my troops to the mission and the BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM the computer just turn off the game...
can someone help me plz ?

This is seriously gettin anoyin.. someone knows what it is ??

Well first off be more specific(ie what OS you are running, your computer specs).As a general solution i suggest redownloading.Until you supply us with further info, i'm afraid no one can help you my friend!

I have the same problem, no solution yet. I run Win98SE on 3 different P350's, one a laptop, the other 2 desktops. All running a variety of sound cards, video cards, etc. ONly the OS is the same, and I DID run this game once before on at least one of these,(The laptop) if not 2 of them.

I also tried redownloading from a different site, no luck there, either. Also tried a 'patch' that was supposed to work. It DID slow the game down to a less then enjoyable crawl on my system, but the same error still occurred.

Can anyone help?

Had the same problem fixed it. Can't Remember how...

I know this is not helping but just dont get discouraged....I did something really obvious when i figure out what it was ill tell u for sure. For now just save b4 a mission and hope it wont bug.....

No luck on the hoping. It crashes EVERYTIME! I have no idea whatsoever why this is, I can't run it from DOS since it's a windows version, (I DID try, though just in case) but I have been trying for several days now to get it to work.

I'm not sure from your description, but does it go this way:

You play just fine. You shoot a UFO down (or discover that one has landed). Then you send your X-Com Squad to blast those aliens. Then, after you klick OK on the briefing screen (go there, kill aliens, collect alien artifacts...) you see the desktop.

This happens to me :cry: , and to you too, it seems. However, I discovered that the game is still running. I use XComUtil, and at least with it there is a dos prompt left running, but it is minimized. I maximize it and press some buttons in the keyboard, and usually it hops back up and lets me play the fight. I did it accidentally the first time (trying to write 'exit' on it, as I mistook it for a regular dos window), and it doesn't seem to happen if I just wait.

However, despite a slowing program (or maybe because of it) the battle's speed sometimes is WAY too high (mouse to the side of the screen = view instantly teleports to one of the corners, autofire sounds like machine gun, I can barely see the screen changing before a shot has travelled through a few screens and hit the end of the map...). I had real troubles trying to play a Terror mission that acted like that. During that mission I realized that I can center on the chosen soldier and move the center of view from the map screen.

You can change the speed of about everything in the option menu. I know they are setted as default pretty high so you have to play with them a little.

For the crash, there is a bug which will make your game crash if you have interceptors minimized when intercepting a craft and at the same time starting a mission with a Skyranger. I don't think that's your particular problem but be sure that's not what is happening.

Win98 should run unpatched version of the game (original version) which runs great with that OS. Only XP/2K users should run patched version.

Actually, the game wasn't minimized, it had actually stopped, but I found the DOS version of it and that works with no trouble at all. I think that the Win version is one that is already set up for a certain set of hardware, since there is no 'setup.exe' associated with that version. I guess my hardware or software doesn't quite match.

Oh well. I can still save the world Dos style! :bye: