🚀 go-pugleaf

"Bill Rosgen" <wrosgen@telusplanet.invalid> wrote in message
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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.
>
> -- 
> Bill Rosgen
> wrosgen@telusplanet.net

you're an absolute star
thanks