Pharaoh, Zeus...on widescreen

[karlheinzi]

i have now changed my german exe with the "be hexeditor" like your english exe, absolutely no change, bahhh, i give it up.........

(with settlers 4 and other old games i had no problems with the editor change, only with emperor, so its not on me ;) )


the best game from impressions games and nobody can change the resolution up to 1920x1080, for normal Full HD Screens??? :TrueWS

[Janbiya]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with the .7z archive that's supposed to contain the fix for Cleopatra. When I download cleopatra.7z and take a look inside with WinRAR, all of the .exes for specific resolutions have a packed filesize of 0 and when I try to unpack them, I get an error message. I've tried redownloading the archive several times but to no avail. This makes me think there's a problem with the version of the file uploaded to the website.

Does anybody know how I can get the original version of this fix?

[Janbiya]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with the .7z archive that's supposed to contain the fix for Cleopatra. When I download cleopatra.7z and take a look inside with WinRAR, all of the .exes for specific resolutions have a packed filesize of 0 and when I try to unpack them, I get an error message. I've tried redownloading the archive several times but to no avail. This makes me think there's a problem with the version of the file uploaded to the website.

Does anybody know how I can get the original version of this fix?

[Khalan]

Try using http://www.7-zip.org/ instead (it's free).

[Janbiya]

I looked into 7-Zip and was surprised to find out how much of a superior program it is. I guess it's time for my 8 year free trial free trial of WinRAR (clicking away the reminder it has expired every time I open an archive) to finally come to an end.

7-Zip seems to have solved my problem with the widescreen exe files, too. I never would have thought to try another program because I never had trouble extracting anything with WinRAR before.

[Gaz]

Registered purely to say thanks to the people who made widescreening in these games possible. Made playing them a lot more enjoyable. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[B3bomber]

my thanks as well for zeus and the xpack in widescreen. i have a request though, make it allow windowed mode for the same resolutions.

[0wca]

jackfuste...you have gained my infinite respect :twothumb

any news on Emperor? sry don't want to be nagging ;)

[karlheinzi]

i count on jackfuste, he make it :crown:

[Retrostage]

@ jackfuste: Thank you very much!!! Outstanding!!!

I've just one little demand: Is it possible to add 1024x600 support? I'm playing a lot on my netbook, these games are amazing and it's so much fun to play them portable.

That would be so nice...

[Tempus35]

So I purchased Phararoh via GOG.com and I have tried your modifed exes but I am getting a "Building model out of sync" when loading the game, and then it shuts down. Any ideas, and new exes?

[Alicyn]

Try using the Cleopatra fix.

[Sokar]

Used the latest Cleopatra-Hack, works with the GoG-Version. I only played for half an hour, seems to work.
Just one problem: when minimizing the control on the right side they don't disappear und their new coordinates are propably hard-coded, since the appear somewhere in the middle of the screen if you move your courser over them. But with this high resolution, you probably don't need this function anyway, so no big loss.

[Djura]

Registered just to say 'thanks' for all these awesome patches :)))
I tried installing GoG version of Zeus + Poseidon and using the patches.For the most part it works gr8,but when i click
on the world view map during a mission, the game crashes completely.Any ideas?

@jackfuste:
how's the progress going on Emperor? can't wait for that one^^

[jackfuste]

For the most part it works gr8,but when i click on the world view map during a mission, the game crashes completely.Any ideas?

Do you replaced the DATA folder from widescreen fix?
What is your resolution, and on what mission the game crashes when you open a world map?

how's the progress going on Emperor? can't wait for that one^^

I'm working on an interface.

[Djura]

I reinstalled the game (same GoG version as before), re-applied the patch (data folder + exe) and everything seems to work now.
I cannot reproduce the crash, and i'm quite sure i installed everything in the same way before.
When it crashed before,it didn't matter what mission it was,it would crash on every mission when opening World Map.
Resolution i use is 1920x1200.

Anyway, i tried a lot of missions now and everything works brilliantly, guess it was false alarm :)

Thx again for your work, and go go Emperor patch ^^

[karlheinzi]

[quote]

how's the progress going on Emperor? can't wait for that one^^

I'm working on an interface.

yeahh, great news, thx man :D

greetings from germany

[Raptor051]

Hi,

“jackfuste”. I really like the patches you made and I cant thank you enough for your time and effort to make them (especially Pharaoh and Cleopatra).
Phar/Cleo have same engine as Caesar 3 so Caesar 3 should be “easy” for you to make screen resolution fixes.
I would kindly ask you if when you have time, you could check and if possible make widescreen patches for Caesar 3 (1920x1200 and 1920x1080).

Regards.

[Answulf]

Edit: NM - was missing the fact that you just replace the .exe... :)

[Horchata]

Hi all.

I am Spanish and my files. exe of Zeus-Poseidon / Pharaoh-Cleopatra are different,
you could do a brief tutorial explaining how to change resolutions in other .exe lenguages?

Thanks