Make resolution same as desktop resolution

[RMcD94]

I think that's how to word it anyway, I couldn't find the Alpha Centauri thread where you set the resolution to the same, even though I searched for

DirectDraw=0

Maybe I searched it somewhere else. Anyway.

For you people of CivIII, I am going to ask, and try and figure out, how to set the resolution to be the same as your desktop, ie, change it.

Now, I didn't see it in the preferences part when in Conquests, so I take it it's in none of them.

Alright, so basically I'm going to go into conquests.ini

And add DirectDraw=0 right below [Conquests] and hope that works.

Edit: Citizens of this forum, I can reveal to you, that doing that, does not work! It appears to do absolutely nothing.

[Lancer]

Start > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Then I'm going to assume you slide the 'Screen Resolution' dealy to the left a bit. :dunno:

[RMcD94]

I don't want to lower my screen resolution, I want to force CivIII's to be bigger.

[Lancer]

Oh I see, very ambitious. :b: At my level of skills if I wanted that I'd go out and get a bigger monitor. ;)

[RMcD94]

No no, that doesn't change anything.

I don't think it does anyway.

It's always going tobe at, I think 800 by 600. But in Alpha Centauri, you can force it to change to whatever your desktop is, for example 1200 by 1024, using a bit of a code.

But the code doesn't work for Civ III even though it was made after it.

[Lancer]

That is often the way. Two steps forward and one, if we're lucky, back.

[Mart]

this is from cfc:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=2742147&postcount=2

the entry:

KeepRes=1
Can be 0 or 1. If 1, your screen resolution is used for the game instead of the default 1024x768.

seems to do the trick.

[raf0485]

Do you know what file we add the code to?

[DrazharLn]

They go in the conquests.ini file RMcD94 mentioned, I think.

[raf0485]

Thanks Draz, it worked great! Anybody up for a game? :D

Just realized it looks really tiny in that window, but in 1600x900 it looks better...

[DrazharLn]

Thanks to Mart and RMcD mainly :)

I don't actually own Civ II, unfortunately :(

[raf0485]

This is the Civ III forum. I was kinda kidding, anyway. But, if anyone does want to play, I'm up for it. I can still remember all the sleepless nights I spent playing this game.

[DrazharLn]

I've been spending my nights playing XCOM recently, getting that for my phone has got to be one of the least productive things I've ever done.

[raf0485]

I could imagine how much sleep I would lose if that were on my phone...