Changing resolution prior to startup?

July 17, 2003 2:00 PM from

I have a Philips 150B3 monitor. It cannot do resolutions above 1024x768@60hz or somesuch, and whenever I try to start GalCiv, the screen goes black (aka resolution out of range). Is there any way to force it to start up in 800x600 or something? I tried modifying my desktop settings, but that did no good.

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Reply #1 July 18, 2003 12:01 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

Set your monitor to 1024x768 and then make yourself an icon that points directly to the GalCiv.exe file on your harddrive. After the target, put a space and then a w. So it will look something like this:

"C:\program files\stardock\galciv\galciv.exe" w

When you run GC with this icon it should start the game in windowed mode, which may fix the problem.

Reply #2 July 20, 2003 12:55 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for the reply - oddly enough I fixed it by starting in 800x600 once, then popping back to 1280x768. Every start up since then (all two of them) have worked fine.

Reply #3 July 20, 2003 2:44 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

Strangest thing...I'm in 1024x800 with no problems running it normally, but with the w it pops up black rectangles for a split second then nothing happens...

Any way I can run it windowed?

~SDC~

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