Civilization: Call to Power
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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 |
Call to Power | |
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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 | 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. |
- 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
- The 1.21 hack fixes further problems.
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 feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
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 |
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Audio
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
Type | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
Matchmaking | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 6 |
Executable | PPC | 16-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 | 98, NT 4.0 SP3 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 133 MHz | Intel Pentium 166 MHz (required on NT) |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB (required on NT) |
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 | ||
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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
- ↑ 1.0 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
- ↑ Phoronix - List of commercial Linux PPC, Sparc and Alpha games - last accessed on 2019-11-24