I've managed to get it working in both Dosbox 0.65 and 0.7, but whenever a yes/no box pops up, the game freezes. This means I can't buy anything, or even go on a mission. Anyone got a fix for this? This exact problem was happening to me. I talked about it in the pallete corruption thread below. …

Thank you, I'll look into that today. I appreciate the help! Jim

Hello all. I have done alot of searching before posting (both here and other forums like the Wing Commander CIC boards), but found no answers. I'm having really two problems with running this game in DOSBOX. Oh by the way this is Privateer w/Righteous Fire CD version, installed normally. First I was …

It won't be a problem in the future because DOS games will not work in Windows in the future (32bit Vista with Vista drivers will not allow DOS games that use video modes other than text to run in fullscreen) so you'll need to use a program like GliDOS or an emulator (or install the XP drivers in …

I hope one day someone figures out what causes this graphics / palette problem with some newer cards. I expect it will continue to be an issue into the future when playing other older games..someone else in this thread had already reported a similar problem in a different game. I have been playing …

EDIT: easier to just update this last post with the final results. I ended up getting it to run very well now. I'm quite pleased. In the end I had to turn the core=auto to core=normal again to achieve this. But with cycles=auto, the gameplay is smooth and stable. When I had them both on auto, it was …

auto eh? I'll give that a try in a little while, thanks for the tip. Wow, words from the author himself. Cheers and thanks. Oh, and I have it on SB16, IRQ7, DMA5.. Will SB Pro IRQ7 DMA1 give better performance?

EDIT: In playing with it, its still not great performance, but it is playable, and it no longer locks up. I do still hope that one day a solution can be found to the above issues, but in the mean time, this will suffice. What are your settings for things like core, cycles, and output? Well let's …

I don't have the CD just a cracked version so that may be why it ran fine with the sound enabled for me. What happens if you press "O" and disable the music? I GOT IT WORKING IN DOSBOX!! It WAS related to the CD mount. I had to change my mount CD drive line to this: mount d G:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 - …

I HAVE AN IDEA. I notice that when I have sound enabled, the CD rom is spinning during play. For the first time, I noticed a connection.. when it was stuttery, the disc light was going.. I can see a correlation. I wonder if it could be related to that. I'm playing with the original CD in the drive, …

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/11/15/257408.aspx Seems it runs fine under Virtual PC via Windows 95. It's a bit of roundabout way to get it to run but as you have an older P4 CPU it may work better for you. I have been very close to trying the Virtual PC solution, just wasn't …

You mentioned in your first post that DosBox would freeze and that sound would loop? Have you tried the game in DosBox with no sound configured? If it works this way with no freezes then it was likely a sound configuration problems. (DosBox uses IRQ7). I just started rooting around through my hard …

Isn't there a Windows version of this game? No, they did release windows friendly versions of XCOM1 & 2 (Ufo Defense and Terror From the Deep). They are part of the collectors edition which I own. But the Apocalypse is the original DOS4GW version that ran in DOS and Win95/98. I tried safe mode now …

1. Look in your game directory for anything that say's UNIVBE. 2. Okay, it didn't have any adverse effects right? Everything is still functional? 3. Solvbe http://sol.gfxile.net/solvbe.html 4. Hmm, would be nice if that Geforce was working... 5. Definetly try this. Easy troubleshooting technique …

I don't have XCOM APOC but: 1. Does the game use a UNIVBE driver? 2. Have you tried vgafix? 3. Have you tried solvbe? 4. Have you tried sticking another video card in your computer? 5. Have you tried running the game in XP safe mode? (When booted in safe mode XP uses a generic video driver that …

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Hello all. I have registered here to post this query, in hopes someone has ever found a solution. My problem relates to running XCOM Apoacalypse in XP with VDMSound (as opposed to running with DOSBOX. This problem is not related to VDMSound, just mentioning how I am working to play the game). I have …