Comments on: How to Run Caesar II in Windows XP

By: Caesar

Caesar — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:47:45 +0000

1) download the game from abandonia
2) created new folder called games, put caesar 2 into folder, called it caesar2
3) type in “mount c c:\games”
4) type in c:
5) type in cd caesar2
6) type in PS
7) Hit space bar
play the game!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:23:53 +0000

Derekius,

To use fullscreen, edit the configuration in DosBox:

Look for fullscreen=false and change it to true. Also, change aspect=false to aspect=true.

By: derekius maximus

derekius maximus — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:54:15 +0000

Dos Box works. But when I hit alt + enter and go to full screen mode my mouse stops working as does my keyboard. I’d love to play this in full screen, any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Octavian

Octavian — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:36:32 +0000

Wow I just found this game in my drawer the other day and I am dying to play it. Glad to see there is still so much interest from other people. Anyway, it is a windows version of the game. I am running Windows 7 on a 64 bit system. I was able to download the “XP Mode” via the Windows website. Doing so, I have been able to play Rise and Rule of Ancient Empires, another one of my favorite games from the time. I was also able to install and run Caesar II. However, every time I try to begin a campaign the two normal windows come up, the city window and the command window, but then the start new game window pops back up over top of my game. I remember having this same problem 10 years ago after my dad got rid of his old Win95 computer and got a new one. Anyone know how to get around this?
Thanks In Advance.

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By: Psyanos

Psyanos — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:44:00 +0000

I got the game to run fine….had to DL it from an emulator site though….i had the windows version CD…..however…its been years since i played it and i dont seem to remember how to get it to run in english….i dont speak german….perhaps i should learn?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:39:34 +0000

In comment 114 I described how to install and run the Windows 95 version of Caesar II. After installing it this way, with setup.exe and placing wing32.dll into either SysWOW64 (Vista and 7) or System32 (XP), you may notice the 95 verison wants the CD to run. The portion of the game that installs performs a CD check.

Obviously you could get around this by creating an ISO and mounting a virtual drive. But a more efficent method seems to be to create a virtual drive. This can be accomplished in DOS or the command line using the subst command. But for those without experience in DOS, a viable (and much easier) solution is to use a program called virtual subst. http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/visual-subst.html

Simply copy all the files from the CD (approxmiately 350MB) to a folder. Say you name this folder caesar 2 cd and place it on your desktop. You can then create a virtual drive, say drive F:, and point it to this folder using visual subst. Then you point Caesar II at this new drive as your CD drive. The game will start without needing the CD.

This creates the possibility to copy the caesar 2 cd folder as well as the folder that is installed on your computer containing the executable and other important files to a USB stick. You can even put a copy of visual subst on the USB stick as well, and tell it to create a virtual drive of your choice on windows start up and point it to the caesar 2 folder on the stick.

The end result is, when you plug in the usb stick, a virtual drive will be created as the caesar 2 cd. You can then run the game completely from the usb stick. Which in effect means you can take caesar 2 with you anywhere. It will play on any machine running any windows operating system this way, provided you have the wing32.dll placed directly into the system32/syswow64 folder.

By: Sage

Sage — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:41:24 +0000

I’m having sort of a strange problem. I can get the game to run well enough, but the graphics are all messed up – primitive, more like Caesar I, and many are just black. How do I get the graphics to work? I’ve got a Win95 disc, I remember running it on DOS on my old computer but it doesn’t seem to demand that now.

By: BobtheBuilder

BobtheBuilder — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:15:51 +0000

I did it like this:
download the game from abandonia
created new folder called games, put caesar 2 into folder, called it caesar2
type in “mount c c:\games”
type in c:
type in cd caesar2
type in PS
play the game!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:41:33 +0000

I see many people asking about running Caesar II without DOSBox on newer operating systems.

Though this is a guide for installing the game and running it via DOSBox, it is easily possible to install and run this game on Vista and 7 using the Windows 95 version. Also, it won’t even be necessary to run the game in compatability mode when using these newer systems.

On these newer systems it is necessary to run “setup.exe” not “install.exe”, I had previously installed it on my Vista system that way, but much more recently I installed it on 7 using this method.

After running setup.exe and installing the game into Program Files, the game will still refuse to run on 7. This is because it is looking for wing32.dll, which is the pre-DirectX runtime used by Microsoft. This is easiest (and safest) to obtain if you have an older operating system that already contains this file. Once you get a copy it should be placed in the folder called “SysWOW64″, at which point the game should run just fine.

Hope this helps those who would perfer to run the 95 version of Caesar II.