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Dr Ratt <spam@aol.com> wrote:
> i'm currently [trying] to play the xcom collectors edition - enemy unknown &
> terror from the deep - with xcomutil
> i used to hammer the dos versions in the unknown terror release and thought
> i'd play with all the interesting tweaks the util provides
> i can play fine until there's a tactical mission, when i'm dumped out to
> desktop without an error message - when i should get the arming screen
> the vanilla install plays fine in both geoscape and tactical, so the problem
> is definitely xcomutil
> i selected all the interesting/challenging options except randomising
> ships/terrain and prompting for battleground choice
> athlon 1100, 512pc133, k7t master, gf2 32gts, sb live; w2ksp4
> i tried disabling dd accel with same results
> any help would be greatly appreciated as i'm hooked all over again
> tia

If you create an emtpy file of the name "mission2.dat" in the ufo\missdat 
directory, it *should* work.  At least, this workaround works for me.  It 
seems like it's only the first combat that causes problems, but I'm not 
too sure.

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Bill Rosgen
wrosgen@telusplanet.net