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Article #35587Re: X-Com Video Help
From: blackman
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:44
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:44
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Think you need to run Dxdiag and disable DirectDraw acceleration to run the game. Also use a cpu slowdown utility (eg turbo, moslo) to prevent occasional crash. "bigdinut" <bigdinut@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:0mSXb.4995$WW3.3025@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > Hey all, > > I very recently purchased X-Com Collector's Edition cd-rom at Software Etc., > only to find that the video is garbled. > > I checked the Microprose site, only to find that it is now owned by Atari. > I found support info for X-COM UFO, but no patch for the video. Maybe they > just haven't got round to the patch for XP yet. > > Anyway, I got on dejanews and found a couple people talking about this same > problem, and some folks actually wrote little files to fix this stuff, but > they don't work for me. > > Does anyone know how to fix this problem? > > I would appreciate any help you could offer. > > Thanks, > > Don in Utah > > >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!news.beeb.net!not-for-mail From: "blackman" <blackman@beeb.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com Subject: Re: X-Com Video Help Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:44:57 +0100 Lines: 34 Sender: blackman@beeb.net Message-ID: <c5mks8$fs8$1$8300dec7@news.beeb.net> References: <0mSXb.4995$WW3.3025@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.3.127 X-Trace: news.beeb.net 1082054344 16264 62.56.3.127 (15 Apr 2004 18:39:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@beeb.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:39:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit