Civ4 Resolutions?

[slayer5985]

Hello,

Was just wondering if anyone could kindly list what resolutions Civ4 can be played under?

Thanks,
Slayer.

 

[Amniotic]

Well, I only had it running for a little while last night on another machine (mine has the renderer error), but I was quite pleased to note that it will run at 1680x1050, filling the screen of my 21" Gateway widescreen. As far as I recall, it had just about everything in between 640x480 and 1680x1050. Not sure if it will crank out the largest 16:9 tho'.

 

[ThanatosXXX]

I run a pair of 17" LCDs and with a little messing around in the INI file I got it to span them and run at 2560x1000. (You have to do it in windowed mode, though, that's why I had to go x1000; to keep everything on the screen.)

So, it looks to me like it'll run nicely at just about anything.

 

[magnusmarcus]

I run a pair of 17" LCDs and with a little messing around in the INI file I got it to span them and run at 2560x1000. (You have to do it in windowed mode, though, that's why I had to go x1000; to keep everything on the screen.)

So, it looks to me like it'll run nicely at just about anything.

What did you have to change in the ini file?? Can you post the changes to this thread???

I've gotten it to go to a windowed mode but I still cant' take advantage of the extra space on the desktop.

 

[ThanatosXXX]

Ok, here's what I did. (Including making it windowed for people other than magusmarcus)

Open the CivilizationIV.ini file found in C:\Documents and Settings\%profilename%\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4. (Where %profilename% is generally your login name.)

Find the "FullScreen" entry and make it a 0 to force windowed mode.

Find the "ScreenHeight" entry and make it your screen height minus a little bit to account for the window borders and taskbar. In my case instead of 1024 I used 1000 and it looked ok.

Find the "ScreenWidth" entry and make it double your normal screen resolution. In my case I run 1280x1024 so I used 2560. I suppose a purist would subtract a little to account for the window borders but I didn't bother.

A quick warning, though, most information boxes pop up in the exact middle of the screen and aren't movable. Since I have about 3/4" borders on my monitors this made my eyes want to explode so I gave up on dual screening it.

 

[slayer5985]

As far as I recall, it had just about everything in between 640x480 and 1680x1050.

Thanks alot.