Caesar IV

Caesar
Subseries of City Building (Sierra)
Caesar	1992
Caesar II	1995
Caesar III	1998
Caesar IV	2006

Caesar IV is a singleplayer bird's-eye view building game in the Caesar series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM v7 DRM
GOG.com
Steam

A free demo version is available from GameFront.

Essential improvements

Patches

The 1.2 patch is the latest official update for the game (already included in GOG.com and Steam releases).

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files^[1]
Go to `<path-to-game>\Data\Movies\` Delete or rename `splash.bik`, `splash1.bik`, `splash2.bik`, and `splash3.bik`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CaesarIV.ini^{[Note 1]}
GOG.com	<path-to-game>\CaesarIV.ini
Steam	<Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\Caesar 4\C4\CaesarIV.ini
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Data\Saved Games\^{[Note 1]}
GOG.com	<path-to-game>\Data\Saved Games\
Steam	<Steam-folder>\steamapps\common\Caesar 4\C4\Data\Saved Games\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/517810/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Hor+ scaling during gameplay. Cutscenes and menus are stretched severely.^[2]
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		In `CaesarIV.ini`, change `Full Screen ModeTab ↹1` to `Full Screen ModeTab ↹0`.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		2x-6x MSAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Interface settings.

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

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound Effects, Speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Retail only.
French				Retail only.
German				Retail only; download for digital releases.
Hungarian				Retail only. Available to download.
Italian				Retail only.
Polish				Retail only.
Brazilian Portuguese				Fan translation; download.
Russian				Retail only.
Spanish				Retail only.

Issues fixed

Runtime error on launch

Run RegisterDLL.bat^[3]
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Right-click on `RegisterDLL.bat` and select Run as administrator. Choose Yes if a security prompt appears.

Run `CaesarIV.exe` in Windows XP SP2 or Vista compatibility mode^[3]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB for Windows 2000 512 MB for Windows XP
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 ATI Radeon 9500 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible

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>/517810/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (517810) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-06
↑ Verified by User:Cptmold on 2019-07-27
Tested in GOG release at 5760x1080 (Eyefinity).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Steam Community :: Guide :: HOW TO GET CAESAR IV WORKING! - last accessed on 2019-04-06

[gamedir-2] 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-3] 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>/517810/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (517810) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-06

[4] Verified by User:Cptmold on 2019-07-27
Tested in GOG release at 5760x1080 (Eyefinity).

[runtime_error_Steam_guide-5] 3.0 ^3.1 Steam Community :: Guide :: HOW TO GET CAESAR IV WORKING! - last accessed on 2019-04-06

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Developers

	Tilted Mill Entertainment
Publishers
Retail	Sierra Entertainment
Digital	Activision
Release dates
Windows	September 9, 2006
Reception
Metacritic	74
IGDB	69
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Building
Themes	Egypt, Europe, Classical
Series	Caesar