Difference between revisions of "Caesar IV"
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{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/series | Caesar }} | {{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/series | Caesar }} | ||
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Revision as of 19:12, 16 April 2022
Developers | |
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Tilted Mill Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Sierra Entertainment |
Digital | Activision |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 9, 2006 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 74 |
IGDB | 69 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Building |
Themes | Egypt, Europe, Classical |
Series | Caesar |
Caesar | |
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Subseries of City Building (Sierra) | |
Caesar | 1992 |
Caesar II | 1995 |
Caesar III | 1998 |
Caesar IV | 2006 |
General information
Availability
Essential improvements
Patches
The 1.2 patch is the latest official update for the game (already included in GOG.com and Steam releases).
Skip intro videos
Delete or rename movie files[1] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\CaesarIV.ini[Note 1] |
GOG.com | <path-to-game>\CaesarIV.ini |
Steam | <Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\Caesar 4\C4\CaesarIV.ini |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Data\Saved Games\[Note 1] |
GOG.com | <path-to-game>\Data\Saved Games\ |
Steam | <Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\Caesar 4\C4\Data\Saved Games\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | Hor+ scaling during gameplay. Cutscenes and menus are stretched severely.[2] | ||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | In CaesarIV.ini , change Full Screen ModeTab ↹1 to Full Screen ModeTab ↹0 . |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | 2x-6x MSAA | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, Sound Effects, Speech | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Czech | Retail only. | |||
French | Retail only. | |||
German | Retail only; download for digital releases. | |||
Hungarian | Retail only. Available to download. | |||
Italian | Retail only. | |||
Polish | Retail only. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation; download. | |||
Russian | Retail only. | |||
Spanish | Retail only. |
Issues fixed
Runtime error on launch
Run RegisterDLL.bat[3] |
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Run CaesarIV.exe in Windows XP (Service Pack 2) Compatibility Mode[3]
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You can also fix any crashing by changing compatibility mode to Windows Vista. Depends on your hardware.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP | Vista, 7, 8, 10 |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (517810) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-06
- ↑ Verified by User:Cptmold on 2019-07-27
- Tested in GOG release at 5760x1080 (Eyefinity).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Steam Community :: Guide :: HOW TO GET CAESAR IV WORKING! - last accessed on 2019-04-06