When set to 1, your desktop resolution will be what the game uses. There's a problem with WinXP if you install the 1.29f patch, you have to set this option to 60 for the game to work. If you are not having monitor or frequency problems, do not use this ini setting. If it can't set the frequency, it will default to what Windows believes it should be. You can try higher frequencies, but 60 is good starting location. I was looking over the Civ3 readme.txt file and was looking for any command line options or INI file options, well here's some INI options that I found: Unfortunatelay I cant download it because I dont own the retail version of civ 3 but I did it with Fallout New Vegas (I have it retail and on steam) and that seemed to work with steam and I didn't seem to get any registry conflicts either.Hi. I don't know if this will work but since you have the retail copy you could also get the latest no cd exe for civ3. I may try installing over the steam copy to see what happens, but I may end up with registry conflicts again - as the retail wants to have its saves and other files stored elsewhere than the program's directory. However, having two of the same program installed on my machine was giving me headaches with the registry - it led to more than a few conflicts, so I uninstalled the retail, fixed the registry, and did a complete cache fix of the steam copy. The retail copy was something somebody else gave me, and I wanted to buy the game for my own - heck, I liked the game and wanted to show my support by paying for it. I could simply try to install over the Steam copy, and disable auto-updates, at least until the issue gets solved. If you're really desperate you can add a different line rather than KeepRes=1 but it wont be 1366x768.Īnd it seems to be much better. I've been scouring all over the Internet to no avail :( I realized that since the game was 'updated' recently, that must've been it, so I reedited the 'conquests.ini' file to include the line 'KeepRes=1', but then I got everything all in gray, EXACTLY just like the pictures you show above - if I delete the line, the colors go back to normal, but with the lower resolution. (I was used to playing it at 1366x768, the maximum resolution of my screen, which I got by including 'KeepRes=1' in the 'Conquests.ini' file, as you all did.) Originally posted by giltheone:That is the exact same thing that is happening to me - I hadn't played in over a month, and when I returned to a saved game, the resolution was back to the 'normal' 1024x768.

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