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laurentius is offline laurentius
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Helsinki, Finland
Jun 2001
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Question  Old Post 13-10-2003 15:27
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Will Civ2 work windowed on XP? Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

When the resolution is 1920x1200?
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Why not?
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  Old Post 14-10-2003 20:09
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On the other hand, WHY??

How could you see anything??

I would be interested in hearing about your experiments playing Civ2 at that resolution on any OS. For example, it must be really hard to see if the grassland tile has a shield.

Even if your monitor supports such settings (mine does not), I seem to recall that the game is designed to be played at 800X600. It plays delightfully well at that setting on XP.

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I've played it at 1280x1024 in Win95. The city names on the map get hard to read… wish it were possible to change the font to a sans serif such as Verdana.

The only real issue is whether it plays at all in XP

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The only real issue is whether it plays at all in XP


I've had no problems playing 2.42, FW and MGE in XP. All the problems are with XP itself - I wonder if Bill Gates would retire and give the job to Sid Meier.

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Well, I guess I just have to install it to find out if it works or not. The problem is that I've got a laptop that's TFTs native resolution is 1920x1200 and using lower resolutions esults in blurry image. Because of this playing Civ3 is like seeing a movie without glasses.

I'll install it today and take a screenshot for you to see what it looks like. I hope it doesnt look like crap
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It's worked for me on 95, 98, 2000 and XP
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I see...I'm curious about the resolution you used.
I will install the game as soon as I get back home and we'll see how it works on very high resolutions
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This is just great...I found my Civ2 scenarios and fantastic worlds cds but not the Civ2 cd itself...I must have lend it to someone
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Ok got Civ2 multiplayer gold edition. It worked spendidly, here are the screens:

http://koti.welho.com/hhella/Civ2at1920x1200.jpg

http://koti.welho.com/hhella/Civ2@1920x1200.jpg

http://koti.welho.com/hhella/Civ2opening.jpg





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Are those screens from the WW79 scenario?
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They are from slightly modified ww79 called ww81 scenario. I added more cities, changed names, balanced the gameplay and made EU very powerful

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