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[The Brain]

When i run it it stays as a black screen with the sounds yet before it ran i use a packard bell PC.

[The Fifth Horseman]

QUOTE(The Brain @ Aug 30 2007, 01:21 PM) [snapback]307742[/snapback]

When i run it it stays as a black screen with the sounds yet before it ran
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Which version? The Windows one? Running it though patched EXE?

i use a packard bell PC.[/b]

OS and hardware parameters, please.

[The Brain]

Not that sure on my pcs techs i am no good at that stuff the version of Xcom However i got from here.

[The Fifth Horseman]

QUOTE(The Brain @ Aug 31 2007, 10:23 PM) [snapback]308077[/snapback]

Not that sure on my pcs techs i am no good at that stuff [/b]

Not even enough to know what operating system you have on your machine? <_< Pardon, but I just don't find that believable.
Download Everest Home from www.lavalys.com . It will tell you the what hardware is in your machine.

the version of Xcom However i got from here.[/b]

Which doesn't answer my question. We have both DOS and Windows versions on Abandonia. Which one is that?

QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ Sep 3 2007, 09:44 AM) [snapback]308491[/snapback]

QUOTE(The Brain @ Aug 31 2007, 10:23 PM) [snapback]308077[/snapback]

Not that sure on my pcs techs i am no good at that stuff [/b]

Not even enough to know what operating system you have on your machine? <_< Pardon, but I just don't find that believable.
Download Everest Home from www.lavalys.com . It will tell you the what hardware is in your machine.

the version of Xcom However i got from here.[/b]

Which doesn't answer my question. We have both DOS and Windows versions on Abandonia. Which one is that?
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im having the same issue with the black screen running the x-com windows version. I'm running on vista. Can you help

Im having the same black screen issue with X-com for windows. Im running Vista and i have tired to run the game in Compatibility mode. I get sound but no video. Can anyone help?

[Eagle of Fire]

The fix to this problem always be and will always be to download the DOS version from the same review page of this site and use DOSBox to run it.

Not so sure DOSBox can run under Vista just yet though...

I just installed Dosbox and i got it running on vista. Im am able to play x-com terror of the deep. But i cant find x-com ufo defense. Can you send me the direct link?

[Mighty Midget]

X-COM UFO Defence aka X-COM UFO Enemy Unknown
http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/38...emyUnknown.htm

I just installed that one now. When i try to run it in Dosbox it says it needs to run with win32 and then it quits out.