How can I disable the opening movie?

[dadacp]

Every time I start Civ3, the monitor resizes several times in order to play the opening movie. Not only is it a waste of my time and the cause of otherwise unecessary mouse and/or keyborad clicks, but I don't think it's healthy in the long run for the monitor to go through so many unecessary video mode changes. Does anyone know how to disable the opening movie? The "disableopeningmovie=1" from Alpha Centauri doesn't work in the ini file.

[quinalla]

You can rename the movie to something else so it can't find it and won't try to play it, it is in the civ3/movies folder and it called intro.*** (I don't know the extension). Hopefully that will stop the resizing.

-quinalla

[Travathian]

CivilizationIII\art\movies\intro.bik

just rename the file to intro.old

Now the screen just goes black for a second, then the opening menu appears, when you start it up.

[dexter4dxm]

thanks guys, i've been wondering about this myself for awhile now