1.7 Old version

[APoCaLyPSE666NoW]

It seem there are two versions on Steam :
- this one called "old version"
- other called without "old version" tag

Someone can explain differences between these versions ?

Is this "old version" complete and is it possible to reach end of game without issues ?

[Llamaalarmallama]

I still get an issue that's about as old as the game with either version. Does anyone know a DEFINITE way to stop the random hang issues when running on a mutli-core machine?

Maybe happens less now and I'll keep playing and saving often and see if it happens much. Maybe it's maybe more or less fixed now and I've been unlucky but this SERIOUSLY stopped me playing last time. It just gets amazingly frustrating.

(Game stops responding, "wait" cursor sits spinning.)

[Si Cwan]

I'm not sure what happened to cause it, but a few months ago, something got messed up and the same game was uploaded with a differend steamID, creating 2 copies of the same game. there was a big fuss about it, and it looks like steam corrected the issue by renaming the previous and adding the "old version" and granting people who bought the old version the new copy. Not sure if they grated the old version to the buyers of the 'new' one or not

[Llamedos]

okay basically si cawn is right.

but what happened was that the game got re realesed on steam under a diffrent publisher and steam being steam meant they couldnt use the same ID. so they released the non old version ad gave everyone who bought the game previously a copy with the new ID.

[MaNiaCSPeC]

Changing ID connected with the change of the publisher. No other differences between versions are not present.

[DedZedNub]

UPDATE (GOOD NEWS):

Nope, there is an actual difference. It seems that in the new version, the one that does not have the (Old Version) tag in the Steam Library entry, there is a key file called UFOApp.exe

This UFOApp.exe will run on an Intel HD 2500 GPU if you double-click on it, and you can then play the game on an Intel GPU.

I tried to get it running for years, but I always had the older version. CD versions also never worked with Intel HD GPUs, no matter what the patch.

But this does work. The method is posted by Wasiq here :

http://steamcommunity.com/app/237950/discussions/0/412447331650710373/

I'm trying to get the word out because it worked for me. I added some basic notes to the bottom of the thread. I don't think almost anyone in the community knows this works.

The next thing I hope people will do is look to see if something similar has happened in the UFO: Aftershock Steam versions, or if there is a UFOApp.exe or something similar that will bypass the problem. Both Aftershock and Afterlife had the same basic error message, only the number of the error differed, both talked of Pixel Format.

Maybe we will get lucky in Aftershock as well. I do know that Aftermath, if it has problems, is not due to the exact same issue. It used to run when Aftershock/Afterlife did not. But Aftermath may be too old to work past XP by now, where the others will work if the graphics allows it.

Again, in the newer version UFOApp.exe exists, my install of the old version did not have this file. So install the newer version and if you have an Intel HD GPU, see if it works and update both threads to let us know.