X-com 1 Crash On Changing Levels During Combat

[Seelie]

System: win 2000 (don't know version)

Duron 950, 256 meg RAM, nVidia Vanta2 graphics card.

 

Version of game: one downloaded from this site.

 

About 1/10th of the time the first soldier steps off the ramp of a landing craft the game crashes me back to the desktop. Only the first soldier of the game. If I restore a game during a combat mission, it can happen the first time a soldier goes up the ramp, up or down stairs, etc. Never a problem with flying suits or hover tanks, just on foot. Oh, and can trigger off the grounded tanks too.

 

I also crash to desktop about once every 30 times I select end turn and very rarely at random events in the geoscape (seems timed to windows poping up). Anyone have any ideas? Right now I just save a lot. But it's still annoying.

[Guest wackyd]

Let me know if you fix this. I'm having the same problem!

[Guest Devin]

I am also having this exact same problem and investigating the cause.

Maybe we can add some debugging info to the xcom fix/loader exe file.

[Guest Devin]

Maybe I should add my system specs:

 

Windows 2000 w/ Service Pack 3.

Intel Pentium 3 733 MHz. (Coppermine chip)

448 MB of SDRAM (1-64, 1-128, 1-256)

nVidia GeForce 2 Ti. (Leadtek)

Creative Sound Blaster Live Value.

[Guest [email protected]]

Your problem is extremely rare. It happens to all of us, but not nearly at the same frequency as it does for you. Have you tried reinstalling/redownloading the game?

[c4t]

I just started to crash now. For some reason it just started around the time when I got Turbo. Anyway it crashes when I click once in a while. Like he said, it rarely happens on geoscape, but frequently during battle.