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Civilization: Call to Power

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Civilization: Call to Power
Civilization: Call to Power cover
Developers
Activision
Mac OS (Classic) Westlake Interactive
Linux Loki Software
Publishers
Activision
Mac OS MacSoft
Release dates
Windows April 5, 1999
Linux May 15, 1999
Mac OS (Classic) January 4, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres 4X, TBS
Themes Historical
Series Call to Power
Civilization: Call to Power on HowLongToBeat
Civilization: Call to Power on IGDB
Civilization: Call to Power guide on StrategyWiki
Civilization: Call to Power on MobyGames
Civilization: Call to Power on Wikipedia
Call to Power
Civilization: Call to Power 1999
Call to Power II 2000

Civilization: Call to Power is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric 4X and TBS game in the Call to Power series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Oversized CD-ROM DRM (lead-out area shortened and used for data, to prevent most contemporary CD-RW drives from copying the method). Has both a CD-ROM and an enhanced DVD-ROM release.
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
A BeOS release is also known to exist, released in March 2000.

Version differences

The DVD-ROM release has the same gameplay as the original CD version, but with higher-quality video cutscenes and 5.1 surround sound support.

Essential improvements

Patches

  • The latest official patch is 1.2. If using the DVD-ROM release, manually open the patch installer with 7-Zip and extract the files to the game directory.

Unofficial patch

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ctp_program\ctp\userprofile.txt[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\ctp_program\ctp\userkeymap.txt[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ctp_program\ctp\save[Note 1]

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings
Gameplay settings
Gameplay settings

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Labeled as Mouse Speed.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Sound settings
Sound settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound, music, voice
Surround sound
5.1 support on DVD release only.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
8 Hot seat
It is possible to increase the number of players in local play to 32 via this method. This is not viable for LAN/online multiplayer.
LAN play
8
Online play
8 Official servers have been shut down.
Asynchronous multiplayer
Playing by email (PBEM). Introduced in patch 1.2.

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Linux
Also available for Alpha and SPARC workstations.[1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 320 MB
Video card (GPU) 16-bit video card
1 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6 compatible
DVD version may require an MPEG-2 decoder card.
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.6
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 603e 180 MHz
System memory (RAM) 48 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) "Thousands of colors" video card


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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).

References