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[Eplekake]

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 ?

[Eplekake]

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

[Omuletzu]

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!

[steelblade]

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?

[xcom freak]

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.....

[steelblade]

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.

[Endop]

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 , 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.

[Eagle of Fire]

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.

[Rogue]

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

[steelblade]

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: