Talk:Game Editors

Hi, there are so many mods out there, I have been wondering which to install and in what order, to get my game modified?

I actually have 3 problems: 1. The scroll speed is far too fast, even when I set scroll speed to 1. What mods or methods should I use to make EU playable? (TFTD seems to work just fine for some reason) 2. I'd like to try avoiding the game crashing every now and then bug. 3. I would like to avoid the base disjoint bug. I can avoid this by using XcomUtils RunXcom.bat, but then the speed automatically goes too fast. Sigh. Jasonred 18:55, 10 May 2011 (EDT)

For 1. and 3. use Ufo Extender, open Ufo Extender.ini in editor and set Tactical Scroll=1 and Base Disjoint=1 in the Bug fix section. You may find other bugfixes useful as well. For 2. there is no obvious help other than saving a lot. --kyrub 21:05, 10 May 2011 (EDT)

Wowee. Thanks. I'll give it a shot, hopefully it doesn't conflict with Xcumutil or something. BTW, does anyone know whether the Steam version crashes? Or did they introduce the fix they found for TFTD?

Edit: Darnit, just tried it out and UFO Extender seems to have garbled graphics during the intro, geoscape, etc etc. Sigh. And, yes, I did change Video Pitch=1.

Edit: Weird. It appears that running the game without any loader at all seems to result in working graphics, but using Extender garbles the graphics. How strange...

Edit: Also. xcomutil refuses to be compliant with ufo extender. huh. Jasonred 21:27, 10 May 2011 (EDT)

Two possibilities: 1) you make a clean install, avoid Xcomutil totally and go for Extender only. It works like a treat. 2) (harder) You download the LATEST Xcomutil 9.7 version, because this can cooperate with Extender. You make a clean install. You copy Extender in the file. Then you run Xcomutil installer, there's a new question "Do you want to use Extender?", you reply Yes. Now, the garbled graphics may still appear, you have to switch it on in Extender or Xcomutil and switch it off in the other one (this worked for me). Personnally, I'd try using Extender's Video pitch=1, and no Xcomutil's loader (reply No on xcusetup). But I cannot recall which way, you'll find it through trial and error.--kyrub 04:10, 11 May 2011 (EDT)

This gold edition I'm using is really funky. And now I'm trying the dos4gw version and that doesn't seem to be compatible with the extender either.

Edit: I managed to get the dos version running with xcomutil, and it seems fine. Would have liked to be able to use Extender, but I don't seem to be able to make it load the dos version. Jasonred 17:17, 11 May 2011 (EDT)