Today I've decided to play an earlier version of Sid Meier's - Civilization game. I've noticed that my CD version will not install - error probably caused by the media protection. So I looked it up on Steam. Surprise surprise - it was discounted (-75%) and now costing €1.24. Good job Steam. So I've created new container in Play on Linux and chose a 1.9.18 staging win32 Wine version and installed Steam in it. After that I've installed Civilization III Complete and fired it up.

My screen (1680 x 1050) got distorted and I've noticed that resolution has dropped to 1024 x 768. So I closed the game and searched for the solution. There were plenty of them flying everywhere so I won't be crediting any - if you google 'Civilization 3 Widescreen' you will get multiple hits.

Civilization 3 For Mac

To summarize: Find file conquests.ini In my case it was inside my Civilization 3 container and then the path was:./drivec/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete/Conquests/ Opened the file in kwrite and added: KeepRes=1 as the last line and saved the file. Fired up the game once again and my resolution was kept but the plasma panels were obscuring / covering top and bottom part of the game. This makes the game unplayable and is extremely annoying. I tried finding the solution for few hours and then accidentally I clicked on this: This guy was adding the: PlayIntro=0 option to the conquests.ini file as well and since my intro was showing up as a black screen with the music playing in the background I thought 'Why the heck not.' And disabled the intro. To my surprise the next time I started the game there were no panels visible at the top or bottom of the screen. By disabling the messed up intro I've solved the panel issue.

I think this is a good find and will possibly save many of you the frustration that I experienced today while trying to solve it - hence the post. With regards.

AndrzejL Edited by AndrzejL.