![]() It simply is a memory resident loader that will apply the fixes and mods that you choose. Just download the zip file and unzip it in your "XCOM" folder. First you will need the UFO Extender, which can be found and explained in detail here: So I set about this evening to get the Windows version and here is pretty much how I got it running with a number of bug fixes to the game.ġ. The Windows version does not have this problem. So why bother? Patches and corrections, the biggest offender being that in the DOS version there is a bug that can reset your difficulty level to "Beginner" regardless of how you chose to run the game. So for 95 and XP the Gold version should run but it won't run for later versions of Windows supposedly because of the changes to DirectX. ![]() It has the 1.2 patched DOS version and the later released X-COM Gold Collector's version that was meant to be run in Windows 95. For those of you that have purchased XCOM off of Steam, you may have noticed that it includes two versions. But you don't want to set it too high because then the game clock and animations run too fast.īut, in case you didn't know, there is also another way of doing it. ![]() To get the game running smoothly, I set "cycles" to "auto limit 10000". Finally, the default CPU settings are a bit slow when I run it. ![]() The only changes I do is I edit the nf file so that the full screen resolution is my native resolution, the windowed resolution is something reasonably large enough to use, "output" is set to overlay for this to work, "aspect" is set to true since I have a widescreen resolution, and finally "scaler" is set to none because I like the original blocky look. The short answer is that you can run it just fine using DOSBox. In the other thread, someone was asking about getting XCOM running in Windows 7.
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