Caesar III

Caesar
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

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com
Steam

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]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\smk\` Delete or rename `CREDITS.SMK`, `intro.smk`, and `Logo.smk`

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
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
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
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
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]

To play the game in Windowed mode, you have to run the game in 16-bit colour.
- For Windows 8 and newer, enable the following compatibility settings for the C3.exe file (located in <path-to-game>: Reduced color mode (16-bit color).
- For Windows Vista and 7, change the colour mode through the Screen resolution settings in the Control Panel.
- For Windows XP, change the colour mode through the Display settings in the Control Panel.

Input

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

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
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
English				Separate UK and US versions.
Simplified Chinese				Retail only.
Traditional Chinese				Retail only.
Czech				Fan translation. Dubbing, Interface and subtitles without broken fonts.
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]}

Steam overlay not working

Use dgVoodoo 2
Download the latest version and unpack the archive. Go to `MS\x86` folder and copy `ddraw.dll` to the game directory.

Use Julius or Augustus]
Download latest release version and unpack archive. Rename `julius.exe` to `c3.exe` and copy all files to your game directory. Steam overlay will now work without any problems.

Game speed/map scroll rate issue

Set the slider in-game^{[citation needed]}
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]
Download the latest version of IndirectSound Extract `dsound.dll` and `dsound.ini` from the ZIP file and place them in `<path-to-game>` (the same directory where the game executable `c3.exe` is)

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	5	^{[citation needed]}
OpenGL		^{[citation needed]}

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Smacker

System requirements

Windows
	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
	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

[gamedir-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).

[Proton_path_note-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>/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.

[3] Play Caesar 3 Windowed on Windows 7 - last accessed on May 2023

[4] BraSoft (archived, 2001). - last accessed on May 2023

[5] Sound keeps repeating, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

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Developers

	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