FINALLY! Window Mode!

[ahsingjai]

Finally, there is a window mode. That's the only reason I hated Civ3. Now I can multitask better. But I can't scroll with the mouse for some reason.

 

[warpstorm]

You do need your mouse right at the edge of the window.

 

[ahsingjai]

It doesnt work.

 

[Psyringe]

Check your ini file. There should be an option which allows scrolling in windowed mode. It's set to 0 on default, you have to set it to 1.

 

[ahsingjai]

Got it, thanks.

 

[Famyen]

KEWL.

I tried the Windowed Mode, but went back to the Original mode because I missed the Scrolling. I'll try the Windowed Mode again with the .ini file change.

 

[warpstorm]

Check your ini file. There should be an option which allows scrolling in windowed mode. It's set to 0 on default, you have to set it to 1.

That's right. I forgot that step as I did it so long ago.

 

[nattivillin]

Where is the ini file. Not being able to scroll is a pain

 

[QiZhe]

...\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4

There's a shortcut that goes to the .ini file.

Otherwise there's
...\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4

 

[ahsingjai]

When you open the ini file, just go to the find option and then search window and it should take you to the line.

 

[swashbuckler]

Is the windows mode made available with the latest patch?

only its not in my ini file...even done a find...nothing.

 

[MarkUCLA]

Strange, I don't have a "windowed mode" option either in my config file. Can anyone post the exact wording to enable this?

Also, post the wording for the scrolling also as I don't have that either. Thanks.

OK, Found it from a post by weakciv:

"in the Civilization.ini file there is a line set to 1 (i believe it says FullScreen = 1) set this to 0 or "ask".

 

[Androo]

For some reason, after installing the patch now it seems to always reset the value in the INI file to whatever I just put -- i.e., I change the value in the fullscreen/windowed mode line to "ask," but it only asks once. After that, the value in the INI file is whatever I'd selected before. (So if I say "no," to fullscreen mode, it changes the value to zero and always runs windowed mode.)

This worked fine before the patch. Anybody else having this issue?

EDIT: Just found other posts that indicate that yes, 1.09 seems to have broken this. Let's hope they fix it in the next patch.