X-COM Apocalypse problem with Win2000Pro

[Jeje2]

Hi,
decided to reinstall this good old classic for some good gaming (while waiting for RoN. )

Well it didn't install.
I just got some error on too low buffer (or somethig).
I then notised that in Win2000 it isnät used anymore as it was in prvious releases. (Cannt be sure if it was buffer, but something that was in Win95 & NT but isn't anymor in Win2000 pro)

So does anyone now a fix for this?

[Urban Ranger]

I think a detailed description of the trouble you have run into will help.

[Jeje2]

Yeah,
sorry for not doing so in the first place.
I just wrote this today as I once by the net remembered it (*) in the hope that someone here would know.

I'm just now away from home for a couple of weeks and don't have the game with me here. I will have to check it once I get back home and remembewr to return with this question.


(*) I have no connection at my own apartment...

[Skanky Burns]

From my installation of it (very much earlier this year) I remember that it needed the lines:
files=40
buffers=40
or something similar in the config.sys file. One problem is that this game was written for dos when win95 had only just come out.

If win2k has a config.sys file (should be in c: root directory) then just add those 2 lines to it, and it should work. If not, you would probably need to create a win98/95 boot disk, add the lines to its config.sys and then hopefully be able to play it.

[Jeje2]

Yeah,
the game needs for files and buffers 20 each.
Problem is that my win2000pro "only" has 40 files and no buffers. (Oh and no copnfig.sys either.)


So what to do??

[Skanky Burns]

Try "msconfig" and see if firstly, that runs on a win2k machine, and secondly if it has the section that has the files=40 line. If you can find it, add another line saying buffers=40.

Unfortunately I have no access to a win2k machine, so can't do any actual testing.

[Jeje2]

I tried to find a msconfig file with no luck.
But thanks for your help anyway - I hope this problem can be solved some way...