Windowed mode?

[GeoModder]

edited, wrong thread

[asleepathewheel]

Have the betas actually played the gold version, to see for sure if the windowed mode has made it into the final cut? A lot of times things are kept in for testing purposes only, such as various debug modes, only to be sliced out for delivery to the public.

[BigFree]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Civ3 the biggest problem I had was on exiting, if I have Firefox/IE open, that program (ONE of them if they're both open) suddenly goes to 99% system resources for about 30 seconds ... sounding like they share a resource in some way that doens't quite work as expected.

Same here. Also, OE would lose all of it's icons on the menu bar; they would all sort of slide slowly to the right, disapearing for good until you quit it and restarted. Very annoying indeed.

[ohdude]

Originally posted by Solver
Civ4 has another cool feature. You can, in game, select a folder with MP3s, and then those will play .

How about an internet playlist??? I much rather listen to Radio Paradise

[Sabre2th]

Well Firaxis can't think of everything. If they didn't include that, there's nothing stopping you from using Winamp or similar

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by hanZ
hm 1 gig of ram for fullscreen/alt tab oO

i'm curious if the game runs better in windowed 1280x1024 than in 1680x1050 fullscreen on my notebook

adding ram to notebooks isnt cheap at all

i also have 1680x1050 on my notebook and it already worked fine with civ3! the ini file needed keepresolution=1 or similar in it.

[hanZ]

yeah, civ3 worked great in 1680x1050 - but due to the new 3d-engine civ4 most likely wont perform as well as civ3.

[Harrier UK]

Originally posted by hanZ
yeah, civ3 worked great in 1680x1050 - but due to the new 3d-engine civ4 most likely wont perform as well as civ3.

I would have thought the opposite. As the workload is now spread between the graphics card and the CPU.

[sabrewolf]

the dell widescreen notebooks don't have per default super powerful graphics cards, but it should suffice. no one will worry about framerates in civ4 except maybe when zooming

[Fidel]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Have the betas actually played the gold version,

would that make us deltas?

[GeoModder]

No, gamma's.

[Kardinal]

The file to edit is:

"My Documents\My Games\civ4\CivilizationIV.ini"

Set:
FullScreen = 0

There's also a shortcut to this file in the root of the game directory.