Posted on: June 28, 2024
EdouardIV
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Still Lots of Play Value in This One
I bought this when it first came out, and re-purchased the game on Gog to avoid having to hunt for the CD every time I played it. Years later, it remains a favorite. I tend to cycle through games, playing the best intensively for a couple weeks and then moving to another. The Settlers IV is always in the rotation. Even today, a well-designed game with 2d graphics and a small set of resources can be very addictive--and just watching the little characters carrying out their tasks can be entertaining! The maps (see below) vary greatly in difficulty. Some let you focus on building up a strong settlement (or several outposts); others require you to fortify as quickly as possible. Some games are over after a couple hours; others take days. My preference is for a build-before-fighting long game, but with over 2000 maps available, it's possible to find whatever balance you prefer. Ah yes--the maps. The built-in maps are OK, but the treasures are to be found in the Settlers mapbase at https://www.siedler-maps.de/s4maps/. There are over 400 pages of maps available for download there, and it's that mapbase that keeps the game fresh. Over the years, many users have complained here and in the forums about problems with running the game under Win 10 & 11. As TerraTi suggested years ago, search for DXGL settler 4 OR elishacloud/dxwrapper on github for an easy fix. I'm playing it with Win11 and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 card and running it at its max resolution (1280x1024), with the landscape engine set on hardware and texture quality on high. The game is running with no problems, and all the characters that should be selectable (pioneers, geologists, thieves, etc.) can be selected with no issues. I'm not using any compatibility settings. To those who cannot get it to run--the zipped package you download from github has 3 files. These need to go into the directory that has the S4_Main.exe program, not the directory with S4.exe. That may be the source of the problem.
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