Yet another Screen Res question

[stelios]

OK, so I've looked through the forum and I've tried the fixes but my screen resolution will still not change.

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate
I have CIV 3 Complete Edition

I did a complete search and the only .ini file I found was one that was labeled "conquests.ini". I changed the conquests.ini file to have the
KeepRes=1 and started the game. Nada. Bubkus.

My monitor is 1440 by 900 Res.

Any other suggestions?

 

[GVBN]

It's probably a compatibility issue with Vista. I don't have Vista myself but I have seen people having problems with it, mainly with .ini files not being in the correct folder

Make sure your conquests.ini is located in "C:\Program Files\Atari\Civilization III Complete\Conquests"

 

[stelios]

Alright, so I moved the conquests.ini file away from the "secret" path that Vista had it hidden in and now when I try to change the text with KeepRes=1 and save the following error occurs:

"Cannot creat the C:\Program Files\Atari\Civilization 3 Complete\Conquests\conquests.ini file

Make sure the file and path name are correct"

Anyone figure out Vista yet?

 

[stelios]

Happy to announce everything has been fixed...for anyone reading this thread, you have to turn of UAC in the control panel under users.

UAC is a device by Vista that won't allow to save in program files! I'm all for security, but jeez....

 

[johnhayes]

as an alternative, as I just discovered, if you don't want to run as admin, the copy of all the files that civ 3 writes are in the VirtualStore copy of program files which can be found at C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\