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Will you be affected by Civ 3 being windowed?
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Yes, they should modify it 1 10.00%
Yes, but not much 0 0%
No, but would preffer a windowed game 1 10.00%
No, either way is good 4 40.00%
No, windowed is better 1 10.00%
If Firaxis manage it well, then windowed is ok 3 30.00%
Total: 10 voters 100%
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Alex 14 is offline Alex 14
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Asia Pacific
May 2001
time: 15:15
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Is windowed mode a good thing? Remove this text

Personally heres i think about windowed mode:

Pros:
- Better game atmospheare
- More screen space
- No program interuptions

Cons:
- No access to running other programs
- Inability to minimize the game
- Possible menu problems

Some games handel windowed modes really well, just as good as none windowed, so if Firaxis does create an easy-to-use menu, it proberly wont bother me. What do you think about Civ 3 being windowed?

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May 2001
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civ 3 isn't windowed. it's full screen. i think you have the two reversed.

anyway, i like windowed mode better, and some Firaxian said you could ALT+ENTER it.

so were ok.

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dewd, you have them switched.... windowed means like civ2... full-screen means like in starcraft, et al.. and dan said it would be full-screen, but very alt-tab friendly

squid is offline squid
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Aug 2001
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You want a windowed game. A non-windowed game cannot leverage the full power of your graphics card. It's called "exclusive mode" in DirectX.

I will spare you my derogatory comments about Microsoft, but it is their library, so we have to have it Windowed to play in their sandbox.

A decent alt-tab will be ok with me.

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