editing preferences to turn off cut scenes

[nk235]

I am having the same crash others have experienced where during a battle when you either knock down a wall, or a king dies or some turning point happens it looks like a in game cut scene trys to pop up but then the game just crashes back to the desktop with the "unspecified error."

I want to try and turn off the in battle cutscenes to see if that works but I cannot figure out how to. I am usuing 32bit Vista.

I go into c:programfiles/sega/medieval II total war/medieval2preference

I try to open it up in notepad and rather than a long stream of text all I see is : [video]
widescreen=0
[game]
allusers=1

That is it. Am I missing something? How do I access the preference file to turn off in battle cut scenes?

Thanks

[Demokritos]

I don't have Vista, but according to Solidgeoff, who had the same problem finding the preference file on that OS, if I understood him right, he eventually found it in the following directory:
C:\users\username\appdata (a hidden folder)\locl\virtualstore\programfiles\sega\medieval II total war.

[nk235]

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

Not only was I able to get into the preferences file that I couldn't before but now after turning off in battle cutscenes, the game does not crash at all anymore.

Thanks again

[gobbothegreen]

I don't have Vista, but according to Solidgeoff, who had the same problem finding the preference file on that OS, if I understood him right, he eventually found it in the following directory:
C:\users\username\appdata (a hidden folder)\locl\virtualstore\programfiles\sega\medieval II total war.

It doesn´t work for me it still looks the same

[irishron]

After you change the file you have set it to read only or the game will set it back to default.

[Demokritos]

[Broken Pope]

So, congratulations on finding out how to tweak the file to eliminate cut-scenes.

Could someone please explain in layman's terms how you did that? I have the same crashing problems but couldn't follow what it was you actually did. I have Windows XP. Thanks.

[Harry Lime]

So, congratulations on finding out how to tweak the file to eliminate cut-scenes.

Could someone please explain in layman's terms how you did that? I have the same crashing problems but couldn't follow what it was you actually did. I have Windows XP. Thanks.

Open up the Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\medieval2.preference file. Look for the [game] section. Find the line, event_cutscenes = 1, & change the 1 to a 0.

[Broken Pope]

Thanks, Harry. Hopefully all those little dots will keep moving around now.

[AlfonsoVIII]

For XP, go the where medieval2.exe is and find the medieval2preferences.cfg file and open it with notepad and I think it says show_events 0r something, but it should be under video. Save and play.

[Knight of Judgment]

if the game crash i don't know , for freezing see my thread .