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Civ 3 on Steam window mode

HybridSquirrel

HybridSquirrel

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Need some assistance if any can be offered. Bought civ3 for nostalgia purposes, and I can't find the .ini to mod so I can run it in window mode. I set steam launch options to run in a window but that didn't work. Can someone help me out? I've already googled but nothing came up for the steam version
 
I know steam stuff is saved to odd directories in vista and above compared to regular games, so may have to try some search strings for it.
 
Try hitting alt-enter. That usually puts most games in full screen mode. It might work to put civ 3 (or another game) into windowed mode.
 
HybridSquirrel said:
Need some assistance if any can be offered. Bought civ3 for nostalgia purposes, and I can't find the .ini to mod so I can run it in window mode. I set steam launch options to run in a window but that didn't work. Can someone help me out? I've already googled but nothing came up for the steam version
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Some games just don't like running in windows mode, which sucks. This really is horrible if you use dual monitors. That is one reason why I went back to a single display. Much easier. Not enough games support windowed mode with no borders. You may not be able to. Like counter strike source.
 
Fox5 said:
C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\Steamapps\common\Civ3
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there is no civilizationiii.ini in that directory, which is the one i need to change.

Alt-enter pretends like it is going to work and then goes back to full screen. I should probably go back to single monitor...I just like have duals.

Noob question: Is there a way to search my entire pc on windows 7?
 
HybridSquirrel said:
there is no civilizationiii.ini in that directory, which is the one i need to change.

Alt-enter pretends like it is going to work and then goes back to full screen. I should probably go back to single monitor...I just like have duals.

Noob question: Is there a way to search my entire pc on windows 7?
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If there's no civiii.ini file in the directory that's supposed to contain it, why don't you try creating it?
 
Fox5 said:
If there's no civiii.ini file in the directory that's supposed to contain it, why don't you try creating it?
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because there is a string of text that i need to alter...and i only know the values you have to change in order to get it to run in a "window"...without the full line of text it wont work.
 
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