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Old February 16, 2002, 17:33   #1
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Civ3 in windowed mode ??????
Can Civ3 be played in a window ?? you know, one thats resizeable???

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Old February 16, 2002, 17:45   #2
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Almost certainly not. Having other programs visible would put even more stress on the PC's resources. As you know the game is not a speed demon anyway.

Alt-tab seems to work, but not smoothly (on a P-III 500, 384)
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Old February 16, 2002, 17:53   #3
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Just to add to Koenig's post... Alt+Tab only works if you've had a 2nd program running before you started up Civ.

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Old February 16, 2002, 18:06   #4
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One of my PCs is a PII 400 w/256MB RAM and Alt-Tab works very smoothly. Methinks there are hardware differences that affect the game less obvious than the processor. The PII 400 suffers from the same slow-turn syndrome, but it doesn't seem all that bad compared to some of the faster machines.
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Old February 16, 2002, 20:01   #5
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Just to add to Koenig's post... Alt+Tab only works if you've had a 2nd program running before you started up Civ.
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Or if you started it after running Civ by pressing Ctrl+Esc etc.
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Old February 17, 2002, 01:25   #6
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Touché
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Old August 30, 2002, 16:54   #7
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from a previouse post

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...ht=window+mode

You Can Play Windowed Mode!!


yep thats right...here is how:

play one game, this will generate the .ini file described in the readme.txt

here is an example:
if your desktop is say 1280x960, you can play the game in a 1152x768 window for instance. to do this add the following two lines to the .ini file:

KeepRes=1
Video Mode=1152

...thats it. it plays civ3 in a 1152x768 window while maintaining a 1600x768 desktop.
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Old August 31, 2002, 05:26   #8
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You Can Play Windowed Mode!!
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...thats it. it plays civ3 in a 1152x768 window while maintaining a 1600x768 desktop.
Well, kind of. I'm sure what Ganja expected was a real window mode. i.e. one with Windows controls to minimize, and a title bar so you can move the window around. This method posted by Khawkins will put Civ3 into a smaller "window", but there are no controls. You cannot minimize it, and you can't move it (it stays in the upper left part of your screen). If you consider that worthwhile then great, but personally I find it useless.

I want the ability to minimize my Civ3 screen. Oh well, no such luck.

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Old August 31, 2002, 07:22   #9
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just use the press the "windows" key, this works fine too, and much easier
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alva is right with the window key, you can have as many windows open as you want with that, but it will run slooooow( still makes editing your mod a hell of alot easier than shutting down civ3 every time you want to make a change)
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You can use Windows + D to minimize everything and go to the desktop.
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