So I managed to get XCom1 and XCom2 to run under DOSBox - great, I loved those games! Having finished them, I decided to give XCom3 a try as well (I have all 3 games as original CD's).

Installing seemed a bit problematic, especially when trying to select the proper soundcard. Auto-detect yielded me a Soundblaster Pro (the soundtest worked, I could hear the 'siren' sound), but whenever I would select another soundcard manually (without even testing or changing any settings), the install program locked up.

Getting it to run was another issue, but with help of the no-CD thingy suggested elsewhere, I got it to run finally, with sounds, albeit a bit choppy at times. However, now I am running into another issue; while on the 2D city map, I can move the mouse to the edge of the screen to scroll over the town. At the moment I reach the edge, the window scroll all the way in the direction of where I wanted to scroll to, to the edge of the map and then the game locks up. The game also locks up when I try to quit the game, as well as during a few other things.

In each of those instances, the DOS-box window that showed some statistics would also show this line:

SHELL:Redirect output to nul

I have tried to search for this on the forum, but I could not find anything on this one. I did try the mouse2kv option as well, but with the same result as written above.

Edit: Ok, I tried again, this time disabling sounds. Without any sounds, the game runs fine, seemingly. I looked into the sound issues, found a link to some files (in the same post where I also found the files for the mouse), but the link is dead. Any ideas/hints?

Edit 2:
Oops, normally I do this automatically, but this time I forgot to add my system specs (I blame it on the time of the day 😉 )

1. Motherboard:
ASUS P4C800 DeLuxe

2. Processor type and speed:
Intel Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz

3. Amount and type of RAM:
1 GB DDR

4. Video board w/ RAM amount and type:
Radeon 9800 Pro, 256 MB DDR

5. Sound board:
Soundblaster Audigy 2

6. Operating system:
Windows XP Pro, SP2 installed

7. Video mode (Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, or Glide, and resolution)
Software, using 800x600 resolution for the DOSBox.

8. Version of emulator (for VDMSound, probably 2.0.4 or 2.1.0; for DOSBox, 0.58+):
DOSBox: 0.63 (as downloaded from this site)
VDMSound: None, only link I found to it was dead