Corrupted display

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2 total messages Started by Majick Sun, 09 May 2004 11:43

#35745

Author: Majick
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 11:43

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I'm running UFO (Collectors Edition) under Windows XP and when I start it
up, the graphics come up all strange. It's like the same screen displayed
about five times, side by side and sort of smeared together. of course, it's
unplayable like this, but I was wondering if anyone had come across this
problem before and/or had any suggestions as to how I might solve it? I
wanna kill some Snakemen!

Thanks in advance.

Re: Corrupted display

#35746

Author: Micah
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 23:36

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You should either disable directdraw acceleration in dxdiag.exe, run
f0dder's fix to start the game:
http://www.xcomufo.com/xcom1fix.exe (put it in the same directory as the UFO
executable)
or you can run the game with xcomutil, which has f0dder's fix built in to
it. The fix automatically disables directdraw acceleration, starts the game,
then enables the acceleration after exiting the game.



-Micah
micahdg@xcomufo.com
www.xcomufo.com



"Majick" <pushthelionheart@y2j.com> wrote in message
news:c7l5ft$olv$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I'm running UFO (Collectors Edition) under Windows XP and when I start it
> up, the graphics come up all strange. It's like the same screen displayed
> about five times, side by side and sort of smeared together. of course,
it's
> unplayable like this, but I was wondering if anyone had come across this
> problem before and/or had any suggestions as to how I might solve it? I
> wanna kill some Snakemen!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

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