🚀 go-pugleaf

I finally got Xcom to work in XP and man was it complicated, my first
problem was that it wouldn't complete the install, it bombed out at 95%
whatever class I chose, then it wouldn't run at all, then the sound wouldn't
work at all and finally the mouse was slower than my grandma in her morris
minor, I solved it like this...

1. To get the game files I installed Xcom in windows 95 and copied them over
to XP, because I only have one machine I used VMware version 4 beta, which
at the moment is free, with host network only and copied it through to the
XP system, but you could use a network and an old machine, or you could burn
them to a cd on a win95 machine. However if you install on the win 95 system
you have to make sure the destiantion and source of the files is the same as
the XP setup you have, on my machine I have 2 hard drives so I put the
install files (Direct from the CD) onto my D: partition (what was the CDROM
drive on the win95 Virtual Machine) and the game files (Installed on the
hard drive) into my C: partition

2. Next I had to install the NoCD crack
http://one.megagames.com/pcgamefixes/xcom3_cd.zip Instructions included in
the download this coupled with settind every .com, .EXE and .Bat file being
set to win95 compatibility got the game started

3. I installed VDMSound
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vdmsound/VDMSound-2.0.3a-WinNT-i386.msi?d
ownload With legacy CDRom support enabled (Dunno if this makes a difference
but it doesn't hurt) and the sound worked, allthough it was a little crackly

4. Finally I installed mousectl.com http://www.minnemacs.com/sandbox/xp.html
(just scroll down to find it) I've found that using mousectl
10,11,13,16,20,25,31,38 gives me reasonable mouse accelleration

That's it, I only have one problem, it's mouse related everytime I try to
scroll the screen up or left, it shoots down, for now I'm just using the
cursor keys but it's irritating, any ideas?


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