Now I remember! thats what my friends moniter said when I fiddled with the screen res on his 19 inch 4 year old faltscreen moniter. I was trying to recal the exact mesage for a moderator here a few weeks back
the Message was just like yours,except The screen went black for good! Not just in Civ3, It happened when I went too high or low for the moniter to handle. and instantly OUT OF RANGE was on the screen. Good news is I fixed it
So I ask you ? when did this happen? Had you already got Civ3 to work with the same moniter before? or is this the first time you had ever tried to play it,. Was it still saying out of range when you exited Civ3? you never mentioned that and its important cause my screen stayed black even when I was just in Windows. It totally screwed up everthing!
the default settings loaded with Civ3 are a acceptable res/refresh rate for every moniter and should automaticly kick in when you load Civ3. My Problems came after it was already loaded and I fooled around in the 'displays' option in windows trying out extreme high and low res and refresh rates in while Civ3 was running!
hit F8 a few times when you turn on your computer. that activates Safe mode and if the same thing happened to you just go back to the latest date that you screen was working properly. Nothing will be erased and you will be fine.
At least I was, theres other ways but my moniter went pitch black so had no choice It could be completly different on the monitor I expierenced it on, thats quite possible cause it was kind of old. Good luck, if its not a safemod correctable issue its still got someting to do with your res or refresh settings anyway. Check some other threads on this page for more details. Later
