Changing resolution without Stema

[jjeestu]

Hi folks,

In my working place I have possibility to play CIV5 during pauses but IT administrators prohibit use of Steam and then removed that.

I managed to make IV5 working nicely except I get stuck with black screen every 10 min. Then reboot and all necessary blablabla.
I got to know that it is a game resolution pb.

Question is :
How can we change the resolution of the game without Steam ?

Please help, this would be highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Jjeesti

 

[Maniacal]

Steam isn't required to change the resolution. You can do that in Civ5's options menu in game.

What do you mean by how you're not using Steam to play the game?

 

[AriochIV]

There is no option to change Civ V resolution within Steam. So if you're having resolution problems you'll need to change it via the config files.

In "My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\" there are several .ini files. You can try to find the one the resolution is specified in (in my case it's "GraphicsSettingsDX9.ini", WindowsResX and WindowsResY), or you can just delete (or move, or rename) all the .ini files and Civ V will regenerate default versions.

 

[Maniacal]

There is no option to change Civ V resolution within Steam. So if you're having resolution problems you'll need to change it via the config files.

In "My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\" there are several .ini files. You can try to find the one the resolution is specified in (in my case it's "GraphicsSettingsDX9.ini", WindowsResX and WindowsResY), or you can just delete (or move, or rename) all the .ini files and Civ V will regenerate default versions.

Or you can go into Civ5's option menu in game and change it there. Like any normal game.

EDIT: Wait, unless you meant in case that isn't working, then yes going into the ini files would work. However rereading his post I'm not sure if the resolution if the problem anyways,

 

[AriochIV]

Obviously, if you can't see the screen, then the in-game options aren't any help to you.

 

[Maniacal]

Touche, that should have occurred to me. Which strengthens my idea that it isn't a resolution problem. Sadly it looks like he isn't coming back :/