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[Mikers]

A Fix for the Problem of running X-COM on Windows XP
(May work on other versions of Windows)


First off, running X-COM downloaded from here in DosBox will not work. It's a

Windows version NOT a DOS version.
After searching far and wide, finally found something that will correct the problem.

It's not perfect, but it works. At least on my system.

Click your Start Menu/button and go to Run
Type dxdiag
(Or, make a shortcut to dxdiag.exe. It's in your Windows/system32 folder)
Click on the Display tab
You'll see a line "DirectDraw Acceleration" and an "Enabled" button to the right.
click it to "Disable."
Exit dxdiag
Play the game
(If it's Disabled, I *think* it'll only affect any newer graphic intensive games, so go back and Enable it after running X-COM)

Like I said, It's not the best way to do it: the Microsoft dxdiag utility - of course -

doesn't accept any command lines, so I don't know how to, let's say, write a batch

file to automate the process.

But it works.

Anybody out there have any ideas how to automate the enabling/disabling of the
DirectDraw Acceleration, please let me know.