Guest Treyvan Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 After being frustrated for a few hours on end (after I had an urge to install and play Apoc again) I broke down to installing the game through a dos prompt. Back in WinME (yeah, yeah, I know...) I go to play the game, it loads up the dos screen and then goes right back to the desktop. No error messages, no little boxes, no nothing. I tried to skip the intro, and still nothing. I figure I could play it through dos, albeit without sound since my sound card is on the motherboard and I doubt it would work in DOS. Any ideas on getting it to work in Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 get the fixes for xcomapoc : http://www.xcomufo.com/x3dl.htmlxcom3fix and x3svga.zip and install them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treyvan Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 Nope, that didnt' help at all. The game still crashes immediately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 have you followed the instructions in this thread yet? http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=841 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treyvan Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 Yep, the only thing I can't do there is install the VDMSound program, as the link on their site to the instructions for using WinME doesn't work. If all else fails, I'll just steal a HDD out of one of my other computers, install win95 on it and go from there... ...I might just make that my Sunday project... Thanks for all the help so far though, j'ordos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 (edited) well, this is the VDMSound for win98,95 and ME *ALPHA* : http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?...ht=quick+search not guaranteed this will work, actually, the instruvtions listed in the 'apocalypse works' thread seem to be unfitting for this version of VDMSound...I guess your best bet is using DOS, or installing win95 (not entirely sure it'll work with 95 tho ) Edited November 30, 2003 by j'ordos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I reccommend you install winxp. Apoc seems to work marginally well in that. (Once you get all the fixes and vdmsound.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treyvan Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 (edited) I've got XP installed on my laptop, I just wanted to avoid installing it there due to space constraints and whatnot, but I guess I have no choice. I pulled an old HDD that has Windows 98 se on it, and it still crashes at the exact same spot after execution. Its not the video driver since I have the standard video driver installed (256 color only). Would using an LCD monitor cause this? I'm completely baffled as to why it won't start. Edit: Got Apoc installed on the laptop (I can only see the top 3/4 of the screen), followed the instructions in the thread about getting it to run in XP / 2000 (Downloaded the crack file, the mouse2kv file, VDMSound, etc) and it still crashes. I try running it via a command prompt, it loads up the Dos/4GW information, and I'm back at the command prompt. I'll attempt to email the XComGuy at the xcomdl.com site about it, but I tried to follow the links on his page only to get a 404 error I believe. If all else fails, I should be getting the CE in about 10 days (and to think it only cost $80 off of Amazon.com...Too bad I'm gonna tear that box open) *worships the Golden Toilet in anticipation of playing Apoc once again* Edited November 30, 2003 by Treyvan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 someone reported once he had a problem because of his USB mouse, if you're using an USB mouse, try replacing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treyvan Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I had already tried a serial mouse, but to no avail. I'm starting to think that although the installation for the game went fine, something might be corrupt. I booted off the HDD that has Win 98 on it, went into MS-Dos mode and ran xcomapoc.exe. It loads up the Dos/4gw program, and I then get... DOS/4GW Professional Error (2001): exception 0Dh (general protection fault) at 3e58:000024d7TSF32: prev_tsf32 6B04 After that there seems to be a table that means nothing to me, and under that there are some more errors, like... CS= 3e58, USE16, byte granular, limit CA8F, base 115820, acc 9B Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 instead of xcomapoc.exe, you DID run xcom3.bat did you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treyvan Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 (edited) Yep, sure did. The reason I'm thinking something somehow became corrupted was it's acting the same way on 4 operating systems. Win 98 SE, Win ME, Win 2000 and Win XP. Edit: Solved the problem so that I no longer get that error message (forgot about needing the XMS in Dos, heh...), so now all it does it load up DOS/4gw, go to a blank screen and then pop back to the command prompt. Would the CE of Apoc give me any better luck, j'ordos? Edit of the Edit: Emailed XcomMan and got that copy...It loads up perfectly in WinXp (aside from the fact its not vertically aligned on the screen, that shouldn't be too big of a fix)...I'm trying it now in WinME (with resolutions under 800x600) and will report on that. Edited November 30, 2003 by Treyvan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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