Regarding opening the medievalpref.cfg to unlock all factions with Vista

[hellas1]

Hi all,

I've now got a Vista machine and every single time I try to change the
medieval.preferences.cfg file to a .txt file it doesn't work!

I want to be able just to unlock all my factions for the grand campaign.

Can you please help me with changing this file AND saving the changes?

Thank you kindly, hellas1- I never had this problem w/Win XP.

[StrikeQ]

You don't need to change the extension, just use any text editor to open the file then save it with the same name/extension.

It could be in XP you had the extension .cfg tied to a text editor already, whereas in a new install of vista it isn't. Simple way to fix it: Right click the cfg file, go to open with -> choose default program. Choose which text editor you use, and make sure the box is checked "Always use the selected program to open this knid of file"

[hellas1]

Hi StrikeQ,

Thanks for your help.

Before I do this, Are you sure?

I don't save the file?

I'm sorry sir, but I HATE reinstalling this game, over and over.

I sincerely thank you, hellas1

[StrikeQ]

You do save the file after editing it, but you do not need to change it to a text file. (just click save, instead of save as)

[Scorch]

Hi all,

I've now got a Vista machine and every single time I try to change the
medieval.preferences.cfg file to a .txt file it doesn't work!

I want to be able just to unlock all my factions for the grand campaign.

Can you please help me with changing this file AND saving the changes?

Thank you kindly, hellas1- I never had this problem w/Win XP.

medieval.preferences.cfg is not the file you use to make all factions playable. Go into your Medieval directory, and go into data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign and open descr_strat.txt

You should see this:

campaign        imperial_campaign
playable
    england
    france
    hre
    spain
    venice
    sicily
    milan
    scotland
    byzantium
    russia
    moors
    turks
    egypt
    denmark
    portugal
    poland
    hungary
end
unlockable
    sicily
    milan
    scotland
    byzantium
    russia
    moors
    turks
    egypt
    denmark
    portugal
    poland
    hungary

end
nonplayable
    papal_states
    aztecs
    mongols
    timurids
    slave
end

Basically just copy all the ones from 'end unlockable' into 'playable, so it looks like this:

campaign        imperial_campaign
playable
    england
    france
    hre
    spain
    venice
    sicily
    milan
    scotland
    byzantium
    russia
    moors
    turks
    egypt
    denmark
    portugal
    poland
    hungary
end
unlockable

end
nonplayable
    papal_states
    aztecs
    mongols
    timurids
    slave
end

Very quick and painless, and there you go!

[hellas1]

Hey Scorch,

Thanks for setting me straigt man!

BTW, what kind of advice AM I getting on these forum? (I mean it nicely)

There's a place here in this forumthat talks about messing with the preferences.cfg file and in Vista NONE of the stuff told to me or on a number of places in this huge forum work.

THANK YOU! hellas1
Later brother......BTW, I just did what you told me but Vista said that it was a "wrong file and pathname"?
It simply doesn't allow me to save it to the folder itself, so I saved to My Documents.
What Da' Heck is up with Vista? I've enabled this program to be run as administrator too.

[Disregard]

Right click on the txt file and uncheck read-only and apply. Then config again and apply.

[GrnEyedDvl]

Actually Scorch if you add:

[misc]
unlock_campaign = true

Then it does the same thing, and you dont have to worry about copy/paste errors.