Posted September 01, 2020
Hi lovely people!
I have played this game off and on since it was new in 1999 and it was always my favourite. I have done all the campaigns over and over again and never got tired.
I can hate new games for charging money for every single update. Pharaoh/Cleopatra only charged for the initial CD and nothing more. I still have the original CD-ROM here. Later I have played sad and tiresome games when they always want me to pay more to continue playing. That never happened to me with Pharaoh/Cleopatra.
I last reainstalled this game when my computer was new in 2018 and enjoyed every minute of playtime until Microsoft forced me to upgrade to the awful Windows 10. And then the problems began.
I had all my sav-files on this computer, but could not start the game. All problems showed up:
Freezing
Sound looping
Total system crash
Never being able to start the game again.
Until today, thanks to you, guys!!
I Downloaded a new pharaoh.exe with the aparently common patch for the widescreeen (a RAR file found linked to in this community )
I Downloaded two ini-files and a map-file from a conversation found here in this community. (I am so sorry to not give you the URL but I had to restart my computer so many times I lost it!)
I have replaced my pharaoh.exe and changed my settings on the exe-compability tag (they are in swedish, so I can not post exactly) to compability with windows 98 (Win 7 did not work) and changed the DPI Settings to not accepting changes. I Also changed the colors to 264, which sem important, before that all crashed.
I also changed the fullscreen option.
I can give more information if anyone is interested, but for now I am playing :) :)
I have played this game off and on since it was new in 1999 and it was always my favourite. I have done all the campaigns over and over again and never got tired.
I can hate new games for charging money for every single update. Pharaoh/Cleopatra only charged for the initial CD and nothing more. I still have the original CD-ROM here. Later I have played sad and tiresome games when they always want me to pay more to continue playing. That never happened to me with Pharaoh/Cleopatra.
I last reainstalled this game when my computer was new in 2018 and enjoyed every minute of playtime until Microsoft forced me to upgrade to the awful Windows 10. And then the problems began.
I had all my sav-files on this computer, but could not start the game. All problems showed up:
Freezing
Sound looping
Total system crash
Never being able to start the game again.
Until today, thanks to you, guys!!
I Downloaded a new pharaoh.exe with the aparently common patch for the widescreeen (a RAR file found linked to in this community )
I Downloaded two ini-files and a map-file from a conversation found here in this community. (I am so sorry to not give you the URL but I had to restart my computer so many times I lost it!)
I have replaced my pharaoh.exe and changed my settings on the exe-compability tag (they are in swedish, so I can not post exactly) to compability with windows 98 (Win 7 did not work) and changed the DPI Settings to not accepting changes. I Also changed the colors to 264, which sem important, before that all crashed.
I also changed the fullscreen option.
I can give more information if anyone is interested, but for now I am playing :) :)
Post edited September 01, 2020 by Frideborg
