CivilizationIV.ini

[ecc]

Can anyone give me a brief explanation of what each thing means in the .ini file or at least recommend me settings for max performance?

Also, what does Dyanmic Paging mean?

-Ryan

 

[Chieftess]

Most of the options are self-explanitory. Why don't you post the ones you don't understand?

 

[HawkeyeGS]

I would reccomed only turing the Memory Saver to 1 and leaving the rest default (you can modify some common ones in game). That is unless you are having serious problems witht he game. Then you may want to try copy every other scan line and 256 colours?

 

[ecc]

Most of the options are self-explanitory. Why don't you post the ones you don't understand?

; Allow Camera Flying

; Set to 1 to page units out when non-visible

; Set to 1 to page unit anims out when the unit is non visible

; Set App on Auto-Run

; Random seed for game sync, or '0' for default(as well as the map generation seed)

and lastly, what is quickstart? thanks for any help i hope this isn't annoying

-Ryan

 

[GarretSidzaka]

yeah, any programming gurus to help us non-codeworthy?

 

[Alakbar]

; Allow Camera Flying
I believe this deals with the drifting that the camera does when centering on a unit/city.

; Set to 1 to page units out when non-visible
saves memory by moving unit data to the hard drive and reads it when they become visible.

; Set to 1 to page unit anims out when the unit is non visible
Same as above but for the unit animation data

; Set App on Auto-Run
Maybe winxp auto-run setting?

; Random seed for game sync, or '0' for default(as well as the map generation seed)
New seed function for generating maps maybe?

and lastly, what is quickstart? thanks for any help i hope this isn't annoying
I believe this bypasses the intro animation and jumps to the game menu.

I havent tried this stuff so I could be wrong about some of this.

 

[Meffy]

Based on what others have posted here, it seems that "Allow Camera Flying" lets you move the camera (main display's viewpoint) around freely as if you were in a flight simulator, so you can see the map from unusual angles and positions. I've not tried this yet, as I'm using a crummy Intel on-mobo graphics chip that can barely keep up with the regular view.

 

[Chieftess]

; Allow Camera Flying

Edit it to say Allow Camera Flying = 1, then press CTRL-\ in-game and watch what happens. You get to "fly around" the map using the mouse and arrow keys. There's 3 "fly" settings, I believe. A word of caution, though... it may mess up graphics slightly (namely darkened rivers, but that just may be my ATI Radeon 9800 video card).

; Set App on Auto-Run

Not sure. Set it to one and find out. (Maybe it's for when the CD is inserted, it starts up automatically)

; Random seed for game sync, or '0' for default(as well as the map generation seed)

I think this is for MP games.

and lastly, what is quickstart? thanks for any help i hope this isn't annoying

Like previous games, it probably puts you right into a game with the game options you selected without having to go through the menus.

 

[ecc]

Thanks for all the help, my game is running a lot smoother now.