windowed civ3

[MC4K]

hey all.

there are a number of things that were featured in civ2 that i wish had been included in civ3, but with play the world cumming out, one in feature in particular is going to get on my goat.

when i played civ2 online, it was in a window. a beautiful window, which meant i could use msn/icq or what even while playing a game with a friend (since they were very long, it is useful to not be trapped in a full screen game)

i know it probably had more to do with the age of the game rather than it being an actual feature as such, but it was so useful! during other players turns you could minimise is and get on with something else, or talk to ppl on msn. my point is, would it be possible for someone to invent a program to allow civ3 to operate in a window, or am i missing some huge problem with this idea? i can understand y games like quake are full screen, but civ3 has a normal windows mouse for gods sake! it cant be THAT taxing on grapics either.

what do u clever ppl out there think about having civ3 as a windowed program? i just cant understand y they had to design it to be fullscreen.

oh well! and ideas?

tnx

 

[Dynamic Cow]

well, if someone went and modified the game so that it funktioned in a window, then id start play the game again!

 

[MC4K]

does anyone know if it would be possible to do this (or are their any programs that can do it?)

civ3 seems to crash if i play around with it to make it windowed.

 

[Dynamic Cow]

wait a minute... you didnt go and create yourself a name just to ask that question, now didn´t you?

 

[MC4K]

naa, i just dont post much

honest! lol

i tend to use Apolyton for my civ3 needs

 

[joespaniel]

Mike B said it would slow the game considerably.

Personaly, by the mid-ages, its slow enough as is.

 

[MC4K]

its not that graphicy is it???

if ut has a windowed mode, surely civ3 can manage it!

 

[WillJ]

You can minimize it by pressing Alt+Tab or the windows button. Your computer might not be able to handle things with Civ3 still up too fast, though (depending on your computer's memory). Though if that's not good enough, then I don't know how to actually make it a window where you can just click the "_" button to minimize it.

 

[MC4K]

you can minimise it, but if you have a larger screen res in windows than civ3 u cant see ur start bar. if u try to change the res, it crashes

what i wud like, is civ 3 wiv a start bar at the bottem like civ2. so u can click on other apps while u are playing and, send msn messages or whatever

 

[brenjb]

If you use Windows, you can just press the windows botton.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by MC4K
its not that graphicy is it???

if ut has a windowed mode, surely civ3 can manage it!

People who are running Unreal Tournament tend to have high-end computers, which can handle a windowed mode. You have to realize that some people here are running Civ III on old 330MHz chips with minimal RAM and no vid card. Getting Civ III to window on an old machine like that would be like trying to teach your grandmother to tango.

 

[MC4K]

lol, nicely put! but im running a 1.5ghz wiv 256 RAM, im sure i could handel it.......

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Oh sure, I could handle it too; I'm running a P4 2.4GHz w/ 512MB RAM. But it seems like Firaxis didn't have enough time to implement things that were low on their priority list. Various editor functions fall into this category, and I guess they figured that since the focus of the game was not on high-end users, it wouldn't be worth their time to include a windowed mode. I can't really think of any other explanation.

 

[cgannon64]

Firaxis said it was so the game could run faster. There is always alt-tab anyway.

CG

 

[MC4K]

suppose! ah well
roll on ptw so i can see how well it works

tnx u crazy forum peeps