Hello,

Thanks for taking Civ III into the GoG family. :)

In Civ III as I bought it on CD many years ago I could add the line KeepRes=1 to the civilization3.ini file to make the game use the computer's screen resolution. I can't seem to find the civilization3.ini file to add the line, and neither can I change it in the game settings.

How do I add this setting? Having the out-of-the-box resolution makes the game much more cumbersome to play.

/Ceril

Hello,

you can add KeepRes=1 in the conquests.ini file in the game folder:

E:\Games\GOG\Civilization III Complete\Conquests

[Conquests]
Voice Quality=0
ScrollSpeed=1
KeepRes=1

Thanks :)

Is there a windowed command in Civ3?

Unless there is some other way to trick it, you can do a faux windowed mode by setting two variables in conquests.ini :

KeepRes=1 (to keep your current resolution)
VideoMode=1152 (to force the "window" size of the game, it is the horizontal size)

Only certain sizes are available, so there is a limit to how small you can make the "window". I know 1280 works (according to my conquests.ini file), 1152 works according to PCGW and maybe 1024 works.
The "window" is an unmovable layer, so it just to expose your desktop and be able to run other programs along side.

Thanks for the advice.

I will comment my adjustments, in case it helps anyone.

First, after installation, conquests.ini will not be there. It will appear only after starting the game at least once (at least, that was what happened to me).

KeepRes=1 worked beautifully.

However, on a large monitor (2560x1440) things were too small. Playable, but small. However, just running the game at the original resolution (that is, without KeepRes=1) but asking my monitor to conserve the aspect ratio, the two black margins to left and right appeared properly. The scaling is OK. It was the deformation due to the full use of the screen what was making the game look horribly ugly.

So those are my two cents. Thanks again for the advice. I guess that for a 1920x1200 screen the size would be OK at the desktop resolution.

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I must be missing something.

All I have in my folder is unistall, civ, manual, readme, and a documents folder that contains a link to gog.

I'm not seeing a conquest folder at all.

Worked for me, guys! All looks good at 1366x768!