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Caesar IV

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Caesar IV
Caesar IV cover
Developers
Tilted Mill Entertainment
Publishers
Retail Sierra Entertainment
Digital Activision
Release dates
Windows September 9, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 74
IGDB 69
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building
Themes Egypt, Europe, Classical
Series Caesar
Caesar IV on HowLongToBeat
Caesar IV on IGDB
Caesar IV on MobyGames
Caesar IV on Wikipedia
Caesar
Subseries of City Building (Sierra)
Caesar 1992
Caesar II 1995
Caesar III 1998
Caesar IV 2006

Caesar IV is a singleplayer bird's-eye view building game in the Caesar series.

General information

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

Availability

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
A free demo version is available from GameFront.

Essential improvements

Patches

The 1.2 patch is the latest official update for the game (already included in GOG.com and Steam releases).

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Movies\
  2. Delete or rename splash.bik, splash1.bik, splash2.bik, and splash3.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
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

System Location
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

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

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)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

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

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
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

Runtime error on launch

Run RegisterDLL.bat[3]
  1. Go to the 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 SP2 or Vista compatibility mode[3]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
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
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. 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. 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