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"TypewriterJason" <jmehmel@gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm not sure if this is still active or just full of spam, but if there
>are any fans of x-com the great... let me know if you've experienced
>this problem...
>
>The image continues off the monitor to the right and bottom, and I
>can't resize my screen to fix. I'm running Win98, 800 mghz. Is it a
>monitor problem, or is it software?

I had a problem like that after I switched to an LCD monitor.  I have
an Nvidia video card, and I used the advanced Display settings for it
in Control Panel to change the "Digital Flat Panel Settings" there.
If I remember correctly, "Display adapter scaling" was the one that
worked best, but even that resulted in a slight vertical stretch of
the image (that made the Earth look a bit like an egg in the geoscape,
but it wasn't really a problem).

TypewriterJason wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this is still active or just full of spam, but if there
> are any fans of x-com the great... let me know if you've experienced
> this problem...
> 
> The image continues off the monitor to the right and bottom, and I
> can't resize my screen to fix. I'm running Win98, 800 mghz. Is it a
> monitor problem, or is it software?

I'm having the same problem, but in DosBox under W2k. I can get it right by
repeatedly switching from windowed operation to fullscreen. 

I still play XCOM. At least once a month. I am a dinosaur.

I'm still playing Terror From The Deep and UFO Enemy Unknown in Win XP Pro
SP1 with the XP Patches I found online and not in DosBox or anything like
that.

The first time I played the game I had to use the monitor button controls on
the front of my 17" Iiyama Vision Master Pro CRT to reduce the screen size
to fit as the game runs in a 'DOS mode' under XP. The buttons on the front
of my monitor access the menu controls for image adjustment such as 'move
horizontal/vertical left/right/up/down' and also 'resize image' so it was
easy to shrink the image to fit on screen.

The X-Com games are brill and I'll be trying to get Apocalypse running under
XP soon. I understand from the forum topics that this definitely needs
DosBox to run it properly.

"TypewriterJason" <jmehmel@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1161630621.440311.40840@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> I'm not sure if this is still active or just full of spam, but if there
> are any fans of x-com the great... let me know if you've experienced
> this problem...
>
> The image continues off the monitor to the right and bottom, and I
> can't resize my screen to fix. I'm running Win98, 800 mghz. Is it a
> monitor problem, or is it software?
>

"Chris dale" <acdales@ntlworld.com> wrote:

[snip]

>The X-Com games are brill and I'll be trying to get Apocalypse running under
>XP soon. I understand from the forum topics that this definitely needs
>DosBox to run it properly.

I have it running well under XP wiithout DosBox, but it did need
things like VDMSound and Mouse2KV.  I followed some intructions I
found in the forums, but I remember that I still had some difficulty
getting it to work well.

This sounds like the frequency is out of range.
Usualy the horizontal refresh is from 60-85hz
but if the viertical rate is at a strange setting this issue happens.
and nothing you do to the monitor can fix it.

It's been a while sense I messed with 98. but if the driver configs are
simialr to xp you can set the alowed refrash ranges at each resolution
in the monitors driver ini file.

I use this to set fix dox box from displaying the black bars at the top
and bottom.

Check the device manager for the deails of your monitr and if you can
find the ini file in question you can usualy modify the refresh rates
and reboot.

Sorry I cant be more detailed.

-Blade FireLight

Okay, so this is weird. The old dos version I bought when the game
first came out, works fine, no bleed, no nothing. (It's super-fast, and
for some reason moslo makes the computer hang and not do anything, but
it looks fine.) It's the windows version from the collectors edition
that bleeds over...

On Oct 24, 7:59 pm, "BladeFireLight" <k...@usa.net> wrote:
> This sounds like the frequency is out of range.
> Usualy the horizontal refresh is from 60-85hz
> but if the viertical rate is at a strange setting this issue happens.
> and nothing you do to the monitor can fix it.
>
> It's been a while sense I messed with 98. but if the driver configs are
> simialr to xp you can set the alowed refrash ranges at each resolution
> in the monitors driver ini file.
>
> I use this to set fix dox box from displaying the black bars at the top
> and bottom.
>
> Check the device manager for the deails of your monitr and if you can
> find the ini file in question you can usualy modify the refresh rates
> and reboot.
> 
> Sorry I cant be more detailed.
> 
> -Blade FireLight