Pharaoh Cleopatra For Mac

Pharaoh Cleopatra Vii

Download Sierra's old strategy game, Pharaoh, for free on this page. In the game, Pharaoh you'll going to walk and build as an Egyptian. The game is somewhat like Civilization but with focus on Egypt instead of the whole World.
Mar 02, 2017 So when you downloaded the cleopatra.7z file (presuming you have Cleopatra installed) you replace the Pharaoh.exe file in the Pharaoh + Cleopatra folder with the Pharaoh.exe file from the 1280720 folder in the cleopatra.7z folder you downloaded. Your computer screen resolution should be set to the default of 1920 x 1080.

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This page is for the original release. For the remaster, see Pharaoh: A New Era.

Pharaoh
Developers
Publishers
Release dates
Windows	October 31, 1999
Reception
IGDB	80
Taxonomy
Genres	Building
Themes	Egypt
Series	City Building (Sierra)

City Building (Sierra)
Caesar (series)
Pharaoh	1999
Zeus: Master of Olympus	2000
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom	2002
Children of the Nile	2004
Pharaoh: A New Era	TBA

1Availability
2Essential improvements
3Game data
4Video
6Audio
7Issues fixed
8Other information

General information

Pharaoh Heaven community site

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail	The basegame using simple disc-check. The Cleopatra expansion utilize SecuROM V4 DRM disc check.
GOG.com	Includes expansion Cleopatra
Steam	Includes expansion Cleopatra

The GOG.com version includes the expansion Queen of the Nile: Cleopatra, the latest patch and is fixed to run on modern computers.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Queen of the Nile: Cleopatra

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Pharaoh Enhancement Pack 1.2 enables the in-game Mission Editor and fixes various issues. (Already included in the GOG and Steam versions).

Skip intro videos[edit]

Instructions^[1]
Go to `<path-to-game>BinksHigh` Rename, move or delete this file:

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/564530/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>Save^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/564530/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video[edit]

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution	See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	Only for 16bit colour depth desktop. Hackable for 32bit see Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution[edit]

For Pharaoh with Cleopatra (available from GOG or Steam):

Download Pharaoh Resizer (French version)
Place it in the same folder where Pharaoh.exe is
Open PharaohResizer.exe, set the desired resolution and save the new executable in the same folder of Pharaoh.exe
Use the new executable file to play

If the game crashes you may need to choose another resolution

For Pharaoh without Cleopatra replace Pharaoh.exe with this file.

Windowed[edit]

Change color depth^[2]
Change the colour depth of the display to 16-bit For Windows 8 and newer, enable the following compatibility settings for the `Pharaoh.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. Download the patched files and extract them into `<path-to-game>`. Launch the game.

Change color depth^[2]

Change the colour depth of the display to 16-bit
- For Windows 8 and newer, enable the following compatibility settings for the Pharaoh.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.
Download the patched files and extract them into <path-to-game>.
Launch the game.

PharaohStarter.exe^[3]
An application that automatically changes the colour depth to 16-bit and starts Pharaoh in a window. After the game is closed the color depth returns to 32-bit. Download the launcher. Extract the contents of the download to `<path-to-game>`. Run the game using `PharaohStarter.exe`.

PharaohStarter.exe^[3]

An application that automatically changes the colour depth to 16-bit and starts Pharaoh in a window. After the game is closed the color depth returns to 32-bit.

Download the launcher.
Extract the contents of the download to <path-to-game>.
Run the game using PharaohStarter.exe.

Input[edit]

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	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio[edit]

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls	Sliders for Music, Speech, Effects and City Ambient.
Surround sound
Subtitles	Not during cutscenes
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian	Fan translation.
Italian
Polish	Local retail version only
Spanish
Swedish	Local retail version only

Issues fixed[edit]

Unable to load function; Ft_thunk (Kernell32.dll)[edit]

Enable Compatibility mode^[4]
Enable the following compatibility settings for the `Pharaoh.exe` file (located in `<path-to-game>`: `Compatibility mode (Windows 2000)`. Launch the game.

Game freezes / movies not playing[edit]

Force only one CPU core to run the game^[5]
Download ImageCFG. Extract the contents of the download to `<path-to-game>`. Open a text editor (ex. Notepad) and paste in the following: 4. Save the file with the `.bat` extension and place it in `<path-to-game>`. 5. Run this file to launch the game.

Force only one CPU core to run the game^[5]

Download ImageCFG.
Extract the contents of the download to <path-to-game>.
Open a text editor (ex. Notepad) and paste in the following:

4. Save the file with the .bat extension and place it in <path-to-game>.
5. Run this file to launch the game.

Update the mss32.dll file^[6]
In `<path-to-game>`, rename the `mss32.dll` file to `oldmss32.dll`. Download Miles Sound System (MSS) v6.0m. Extract the contents of the download to `<path-to-game>`. Launch the game.

Stop Pharaoh from freezing^[7]
Download the 'Pharaoh v1.2 [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed EXE' from 'http://www.gamecopyworld.eu/games/pc_pharaoh.shtml' (or in your language from the list) Add it the installation folder and double-click it - this will patch your Pharaoh.EXE file to play the game without the CD and Fix the .EXE to stop freezing (in my case it worked over all other work-arounds) Hopefully this fixed your problem as it did me. Play and enjoy!

Stop Pharaoh from freezing^[7]

Download the 'Pharaoh v1.2 [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed EXE' from 'http://www.gamecopyworld.eu/games/pc_pharaoh.shtml' (or in your language from the list)
Add it the installation folder and double-click it - this will patch your Pharaoh.EXE file to play the game without the CD and Fix the .EXE to stop freezing (in my case it worked over all other work-arounds)
Hopefully this fixed your problem as it did me. Play and enjoy!

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	6	^{[citation needed]}

Middleware[edit]

Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System	5.0r^[8]
Cutscenes	Bink Video, Smacker

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 133 MHz	Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	360 MB	630 MB
Video card (GPU)	1 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0^1.1When 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).
↑ ^2.0^2.1File/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>/564530/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (564530) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

Pharaoh Cleopatra Vii

↑Tested by Nessy
↑Support for Pharaoh + Cleopatra - GOG.com
↑https://www.gog.com/forum/pharaoh_cleopatra/q_is_there_a_way_to_activate_the_windowed_mode/post6
↑Instructions from the Sold Out Software release.
↑https://www.gog.com/forum/pharaoh_cleopatra/fix_for_freezes_andor_movies_not_playing_on_multicore_cpus
↑https://www.gog.com/forum/pharaoh_cleopatra/instafreeze/post15
↑https://www.gog.com/forum/pharaoh_cleopatra/fix_for_freezes_andor_movies_not_playing_on_multicore_cpus
↑Verified by User:Nessy on 2020-01-19
Version number found in Mss32.dll in the game installation folder.