Civilization 3 Display Problem in Windows 7

[Renaissnce_Man]

Longtime player, first time poster, hopefully someone here can help solve my problem

I have installed Civ 3 Complete on my new Laptop with Windows 7, and it plays fine except for one very annoying problem: Whenever I enter diplomacy, the options to click appear outside and below the box. This isn't a problem when there are few options, but when I'm negotiating or renegotiating deals it is hard to tell the other civilization anything other than "How's this sound". Most other buttons load correctly, it's just this one bug. I tried the compatibility troubleshooter, and no matter what I did, it did not work, and I just updated to 1.22 Full, but that hasn't fixed it either. I'd really like to have my full diplomatic options back, anyone else have this problem and how did you fix it?

 

[Mr.Lewis]

I'm having this same problem but likewise, have not been able to solve it. It's a possible screen resolution error, what is the typical resolution for you? Mine is 1366x768, (I really hate this fact too because it's such a weird screen size)

Also, when entering certain modes of the game, like basically anything with graphs or charts, a lot of the information next to the graph gets pushed to the bottom of the screen and jumbled up.

Any help would be awesome, thank you!

 

[Mr.Lewis]

Oh, I also just realized, this could possibly be a KeepRes=1 problem, but if so then for some reason it is not working on my computer because I put KeepRes=1 in my .ini and am still having this problem.

 

[Monophonic]

I had this problem on my setup too. (HP laptop, 1366x768 display, InterVideo WinDVD installed.) Yes, the last bit turned out to be significant while KeepRes had no effect on the symptoms. Apparently WinDVD installs it's own version of the Lucida Sans fonts to the Windows fonts folder, and their Lucida Sans Regular ends up as the one Civ3Conquests loads. Simply deleting that one font from the Windows folder (it was a linked/shortcut one on my rig so I could restore it easily if necessary) enabled Civ3 to load it's own version, and fixed the crappy looking texts I had all over.

In short: delete (the link to) LucidaSansRegular.ttf from WINDOWS/Fonts.