Widescreen/Laptop resolution won't "stick."

[BlindWatchmaker]

Hi Fanatics!

Not sure what rock I've been under for the last 4 years, but I've just now jumped onto the Civ4 bandwagon and am thoughroughly obsessed.

I have Civ4 Complete, and the game works beautifully on my desktop. But when I fire it up on my wife's brand new laptop, the screen image is "stretched" to fill the widescreen resolution.

I go into the settings to choose a widescreen resolution, and the screen reformats for about 5-10 seconds, displaying a perfectly proportioned image - but the interface is locked (no mouse cursor). The good resolution stays locked for a few seconds, then reverts back to the bad resolution. I can't get it to "stick" or choose "ok" to keep the setting I like. This happens for all choices on the drop down list.

Otherwise, the game runs great on the laptop. Just looks like poo.

Any thoughts? Thanks much!

 

[ori]

You can force the resolution in the civilizationIV.ini - just change that and it will stick

Welcome to CFC

 

[oynaz]

" go into the settings to choose a widescreen resolution, and the screen reformats for about 5-10 seconds, displaying a perfectly proportioned image - but the interface is locked (no mouse cursor). The good resolution stays locked for a few seconds, then reverts back to the bad resolution. I can't get it to "stick" or choose "ok" to keep the setting I like. This happens for all choices on the drop down list."


The "settings" you speak of - are those the in-game settings or the Windows settings?

 

[BlindWatchmaker]

Thanks for the replies. These settings are in game.

If I can't get it to work, what should I look to change in the .ini file?

 

[ori]

open
my games\<gamename>\CivilizationIV.ini

and change the following:

; Custom Screen Height, minimum: 768 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenHeight = 0

; Custom Screen Width, minimum: 1024 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenWidth = 0

to whatever you need, e.g. for 1920*1200:

; Custom Screen Height, minimum: 768 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenHeight = 1200

; Custom Screen Width, minimum: 1024 - Normal resolutions can be set in-game and will be used when set to 0
ScreenWidth = 1920