OpenXcom Forum
OpenXcom => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Stormlight on May 15, 2013, 10:57:24 am
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I am running a Steam version of X-Com - UFO Defense, My OS is Win XP Pro SP3. After installing the Steam version, I installed OpenXcom using the installer.
The first time I started the game, I selected "Launch Windows 9x/XP (only) Version". A small window came up with an Options selection, clicked on it, and a long list of settings were available. I didn't change anything because I just wanted to test the bootup process. Since the game began in the small window, I shut it down.
I then booted up X-Com using "Play X-Com UFO Defense" option. The game came up in widescreen. (I can manually set my screen to 4:3.) After beginning the game, I notice that the option with the settings did not appear as it did the first time. Now the only Option that appears is within the game itself - Load Game, Save Game, Abandoned Game.
Using the other bootup option, "Launch Windows 9x/XP ..." choice, the game still boots up into widescreen, but without the settings option.
Question:
Is there any way I bring up the earlier option with all the settings?
Thanks for any help,
Dave
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OpenXCom is not started with Steam.
It's not xcom mod. It has to be runned independently, with properly copied "data" folder from xcom:defence.
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OpenXcom is actually a seperate executable to the one that steam installs. the reason the installer looks for a steam version of the game is so it can copy all of the data resources into a place where we can find them.
basically, now you need to run OpenXcom.exe from wherever you installed it.
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Volutar and Warboy1982,
Thank you both ... and my apologies! It was late and I was tired and it never occurred to me to look in the Start/Programs menu for OpenXcom. Had I done so I would have realized that OpenXcom installed in a separate directory and not in the Steam directory.
Warboy1982, your explanations cleared up a couple of misconceptions I had. Thank you.