Caesar III
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Developers | |
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Impressions Games | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Sierra On-Line |
Digital | Activision |
Re-release | Sold Out Software |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 1998 |
Mac OS (Classic) | 1999 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Building |
Themes | Egypt, Europe, Classical |
Series | Caesar |
Caesar | |
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Subseries of City Building (Sierra) | |
Caesar | 1992 |
Caesar II | 1995 |
Caesar III | 1998 |
Caesar IV | 2006 |
Caesar III is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building game in the Caesar series.
General information
- Caesar 3 Heaven - A fan site for the game
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- A free demo version is available from GameFront.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch version 1.0.1.0 can be found here.
- To install, simply drag and drop the contains of the archive over the original installation files
Skip intro videos
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Julius / Augustus
- Both support Windows, OS X and Linux, and are open-source projects.
- Julius is an open source re-implementation of Caesar III based on SDL2. It does not fix some of the issues presented in the game itself, but it brings in a 32-bit windowed mode support and widescreen support. The saved games from the original game are compatible with this software.
- Augustus is a fork of Julius which brings several gameplay improvements and changes, such as roadblocks (akin to those in later City Building series games), global labor pool, increased limits and zoom functionality, among other things. The original game can not read Augustus saved games.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517790/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\*.sav[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517790/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Use Caesar III HD+ or Julius. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Will only work in 16-bit color mode. For 32-bit color mode, use Julius or Augustus. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Use Julius or Augustus. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Use Julius or Augustus. | ||
60 FPS | Use Julius or Augustus. | ||
120+ FPS | Use Julius or Augustus. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Windowed
Change color depth[1] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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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 feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, Speech, Sound effects and City sounds | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | Separate UK and US versions. | |||
Simplified Chinese | Retail only. | |||
Traditional Chinese | Retail only. | |||
Czech | Fan translation. Dubbing, Interface and subtitles without broken fonts. |
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French | Retail only. | |||
German | Retail only; download for digital releases. | |||
Italian | Retail only. | |||
Japanese | Retail only. | |||
Polish | Retail only. Details | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only;[2] download for digital releases | |||
Russian | Retail only. | |||
Spanish | Retail only. | |||
Swedish | Retail only. |
Issues fixed
Installation issues
Run setup.exe in compatibility mode for Windows 98 / ME.[citation needed]
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Steam overlay not working
Use dgVoodoo 2 |
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Use Julius or Augustus] |
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Game speed/map scroll rate issue
Set the slider in-game[citation needed] |
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While in-game, press options and press speed option and move the game speed slider to adjust the game speed or scroll rate slider to adjust the scroll speed. |
Music loops and narration repeats
Use IndirectSound[3] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw | 5 | [citation needed] |
OpenGL | [citation needed] |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Smacker |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 90 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 150 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 7.6.1 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC 601 100 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 150 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA |
Notes
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 2.0 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>/517790/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (517790) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Play Caesar 3 Windowed on Windows 7 - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ BraSoft (archived, 2001). - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Sound keeps repeating, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023