Caesar IV
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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[edit]
Essential improvements[edit]
Patches[edit]
The 1.2 patch is the latest official update for the game (already included in GOG.com and Steam releases).
Skip intro videos[edit]
Delete or rename movie files[1] |
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Game data[edit]
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
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) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location[edit]
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) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Runtime error on launch[edit]
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[edit]
API[edit]
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware[edit]
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements[edit]
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB for Windows 2000 512 MB for Windows XP |
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Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 ATI Radeon 9500 128 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 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
- ↑ 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