conquests wont run on my xp pro machines but does xp homes and ME machines

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Mountain

3/20/2009 8:10 PM

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I can get conquests to run on any of my ME or xp home machines, but I cannot get it to run on any xp pro machine.... It will run through the intro videao just fine but when it gets to the start or load game main screen it the monitor goes into standbye mode and the picture goes black.... the music plays in the background and you can click the mouse and you still get mouse clicks and what not everthing is running fine just no picture because the game shuts of the monitor..... some of these xp pro machines doing this ran the game well when they were Win ME machines but now that I have changed to xp pro they do this....all the xphome machines I have play the the game well with no problems..... but every xp pro machine I have tried does this black screen while the game goes on in background, I have tried every accelerator function and everything I can think of but nothing makes a difference so far in the past I have always just given up and not played the game anymore but I am getting tired of that because I really enjoy playing this game...... anyone got a clue what is going on??? Please let me know if you come up with anything....
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Aintmyprob

3/21/2009 8:21 AM

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ran for several years on XP Pro... sounds like a refresh rate / resolution issue. civ3 was coded for 1024x768 @ 60 refresh a second. IIRC So either your monitor can't play that, or it's drivers can't display that... or the video card's current drivers can't. Try adding: keepres=1 to the ini file... would be my guess. edit: it's keepres=1 not 0...
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