October 13, 2003, 06:27
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Will Civ2 work windowed on XP?
When the resolution is 1920x1200?
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October 14, 2003, 10:40
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Why not?
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October 14, 2003, 11:09
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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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October 14, 2003, 16:59
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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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October 15, 2003, 02:13
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Originally posted by Straybow
The only real issue is whether it plays at all in XP
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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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October 15, 2003, 04:28
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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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October 15, 2003, 17:20
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It's worked for me on 95, 98, 2000 and XP
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October 16, 2003, 08:36
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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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October 16, 2003, 11:14
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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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October 17, 2003, 14:57
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October 17, 2003, 19:58
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Are those screens from the WW79 scenario?
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October 18, 2003, 05:49
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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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