Caesar IV

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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 69
Taxonomy
Series Caesar
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Caesar IV on IGDB
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Caesar IV on MobyGames
Caesar IV on Wikipedia
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General information

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

Availability[edit]

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[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

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[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

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) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location[edit]

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) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video[edit]

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
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.
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)

Input[edit]

Interface settings.
Interface settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio[edit]

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound Effects, Speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

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[edit]

Runtime error on launch[edit]

Run RegisterDLL.bat[3]
  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[3]

You can also fix any crashing by changing compatibility mode to Windows Vista. Depends on your hardware.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

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

Middleware[edit]

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements[edit]

Windows
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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/517810/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (517810) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. ↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-06
  2. ↑ Verified by User:Cptmold on 2019-07-27
    Tested in GOG release at 5760x1080 (Eyefinity).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Steam Community :: Guide :: HOW TO GET CAESAR IV WORKING! - last accessed on 2019-04-06