• Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete/Conquests/
• conquests.ini
• KeepRes=1
• PlayIntro=0
• Make a civ 3 save folder close to the home directory since civ 3 looks in the home directory when it wants to load a save game.
• At the bottom of the ini folder, you can change the location where civ 3 opens a save. However, when you load a save, the path gets reset back to Z:\home\USER\

Fix for looping audio

Make sure the patch for the black screen is done first

• https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51502
• Download dummy sound in the Attachments table
• Paste dummy.wav in the specified locations. Open the terminal at the specified locations and paste the commands:
• Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete/Sounds/

find . -name "*OK*" -exec cp dummy.wav {} \;
find . -name "Popup*" -exec cp dummy.wav {} \;
find . -name "Love*" -exec cp dummy.wav {} \;
find . -name "MorphT*" -exec cp dummy.wav {} \;

• Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete/Sounds/Ambience Sfx/

find . -name "*.wav" -exec cp dummy.wav {} \;

• Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete/Sounds/build/ancient/

find . -name "*.wav" -exec cp dummy.wav {} \;

• Ignore dummy same file output.
• This removes all the looping sounds from the game.
• Game can now be played with sound sfx on. The music will break when creating a new game but this can be fixed by saving, exiting the game then loading the save.

( Optional ) Install dsound

• I think this improves the audio quality but I could be wrong. If it does, it only improves the quality slightly by making the audio more 3D? ( Not sure how to explain ). It also makes the main menu music slightly glitchy.
• https://www.indirectsound.com/
• Download the lastest version. Right now this version 0.20.
• Extracts contents into Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete/Conquests/

protontricks 3910 winecfg

• ( In the GUI, sid meier civ 3, default wineprefix, run winecfg )
• Libraries, type 'dsound' in New override for library:
• Click Add, make sure dsound has native, builtin. Click Apply, ok
• Dsound is now working. Do NOT use 'protontricks 3910 dsound' to install dsound as this will break the audio for civ 3. I tried this twice with bad audio as a result both times.