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Revision as of 15:29, 15 April 2020

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Caesar IV
Caesar IV cover
Developers
Tilted Mill Entertainment
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
Windows September 9, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 74
IGDB 80
Caesar IV on IGDB
Caesar IV on MobyGames
Caesar IV on Wikipedia
Caesar
Subseries of City Building (Sierra)
Caesar 1992
Caesar II 1995
Caesar III 1998
Caesar IV 2006

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM V7 DRM
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files[1]
  1. Go to Configuration file(s) location\Data\Movies\
  2. Delete or rename splash.bik, splash1.bik, splash2.bik, and splash3.bik.
splash3.bik provides an introductory narrative to the game, so players may wish to watch it at least once.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\CaesarIV.ini[Note 1]
GOG.com <path-to-game>\CaesarIV.ini
Steam <Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\C4\CaesarIV.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Saved Games\[Note 1]
GOG.com <path-to-game>\Data\Saved Games\
Steam <Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\C4\Data\Saved Games\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Interface settings.
Interface settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Retail only.
French
Retail only.
German
Retail only.
Hungarian
Retail only. Available to download.
Italian
Retail only.
Polish
Retail only.
Russian
Retail only.
Spanish
Retail only.

Issues fixed

Runtime error on launch

Run RegisterDLL.bat[2]
  1. Go to Configuration file(s) location.
  2. Right-click on RegisterDLL.bat and select Run as administrator.
  3. Choose Yes if a security prompt appears.
Run CaesarIV.exe in Windows XP (Service Pack 2) Compatibility Mode[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
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. 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. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-06
  2. 2.0 2.1 Steam Community :: Guide :: HOW TO GET CAESAR IV WORKING! - last accessed on 2019-04-06