Man, i'm beginning to regret coming here. You guys get incredibly defensive and hostile.

Oh! I also found XCom won't play nice if it doesn't think it's on the C:\Xcoma\ directory. It doesn't actually have to be, just that DOSBOX has to tell it, that it is. Also, it won't read the CD unless it's either drive D:, or L:. No idea why L:

This may sound dumb, but did you mount the CD-ROM drive? I found it worked best to use Daemon Tools to emulate the ISO (CD Image) of XCom3:Apocalypse and then mount it in Dosbox. Also, be sure to copy the SMK folder from the CD/ISO into your XComApoc directory.

I'll have a new system soon. Prolly in the next 3-4 weeks. Crazy to think you need a PC from after 2006 to play a game from 1997. 2.1 GHz, 2000 MHz H/T, 1 MB L2, dual core AMD Athlon X2 1 GB PC5300 RAM. ATI HD3100 video (1GB) AMD North/south chipsets That should be good enough.

I was told by mods here that you need a latest-generation AMD system with an ATI video card and a non-onboard, Soundblaster name-brand soundcard to make XCom Apocalypse work.

King's Bounty doesn't have any sound It's PC-speaker. You should be able to run it fine in any version of DOSBOX, however if your PC is too new, it may not have a PC speaker.

LOUD NOTE: The hire/fire crash bug is the result of using the Dynamic core. It should be fixed in version 0.72 However versions before that Dynamic core doesn't work right with XCom3 Apoc

Hope you get it, but the programmers for DOSBOX made it clear that they have no interest in improving support for work applications like Office, Lotus, etc. Only games. They also clearly state they have no interest in improving DOSBOX's speed/performance. Only compatability.

If I use ddraw everything is less sharp, but a little bit faster. Some tactical combat is now bearable, but if there's many smoke effects it gets rather molasses again. =/

MiniMax: The frameskip, oddly, seems to actually make the lag worse. Setting the cycle max to 80% seems to make the game run a lot more smoothly and makes the sound break less often, but the agents are still moving in molasses time in tactical combat. It's wierd. I have games with drastically higher …

Considering the fact that Xcom Apocalypse only requires a 486 to run? I'll kindly choose to ignore your insults, DosFreak. I'm going to give that a try, MiniMax. Thanks!

I've read and tried various readmes and helps, fixes and so forth online and nothing seems to bring the game from a crawl. In some areas it's useable (such as in paperdolls or base build), but the cityscape and especially tactical combat is so slow it's unuseable. First, system specs: PM800-8237 ( …