TFTD Land mission prob

[tchasql]

ive managed to get xcom tftd running on my XP machine fine apart from this...

 

When i have to do a land mission either on a ship or at a dock etc etc, i can do my first turn, then when i press the end turn button. The Game hangs at the 'hidden movement' screen.

 

It did this on underwater missions aswell, but i fixed that by running xcom from the command prompt. However it doesnt work for land missions...

 

Any suggestions???

 

Thanks

[NKF]

I've always had similar problems with the original Dos TFTD on a computer slightly above its optimal computer specifications. The game would slowly turn to treacle at random moments (usually when a soldier is walking), but worse still, it always seemed to happen during the alien movement phase and would occasionally hang. Sometimes, if left it alone long enough, it settles itself and resumes as usual.

 

Never happend in UFO, but I guess it's because TFTD uses more memory (16-bit integers) compared to UFO (8-bit integers). Although I never thought this would happen on faster systems with bucketloads of memory (in the old days 4 to 16 megs of ram was awesome).

 

If you're using Dos TFTD, would a slowdown utility help?

 

- NKF