Borderless + Windowed TATW

[Black_ice_Spain]

Anyway to get this done on TATW? i've managed to remove all borders and go "full screen" with this autohotkey script

Loop
IfWinActive Medieval 2
{
WinSet, Style, -0xC40000 ; remove the titlebar and border(s)
WinMove, , , 0, 0, A_ScreenWidth, A_ScreenHeight ; move to 0,0 and resize to max resolution
break
}
Sleep 2000 ; 2 Second
}
return

But it wont go on top windows taksbar >_< it does in all games i know. Only way to go truly borderless and full screen its hidding windows taskbar which i dislike
Any possible help?. Who did it for SS? :I

[SeekerAfterTruth]

In ur configuration file named 'TATW' put the lines
windowed=true
borderless_window=true
Under the heading of [video] and make sure there are bo other lines refering to windowed mode

So that section should look like this:
[video]
windowed=true
borderless_window=true
;movies = false
show_banners = 0

And leave the rest of the file the same

Hope this helps

[DLongBeard]

In ur configuration file named 'TATW' put the lines
windowed=true
borderless_window=true
Under the heading of [video] and make sure there are bo other lines refering to windowed mode

So that section should look like this:
[video]
windowed=true
borderless_window=true
;movies = false
show_banners = 0

And leave the rest of the file the same

Hope this helps

When I try to edit the file, it just says "Access Denied" and cancels the edit. Any idea how to fix that? :3

[DLongBeard]

I've already checked Full Control in the Security Tab for the entire Medieval 2 Total War folder, and it still says "Access is Denied".

[ElvenKind]

I've already checked Full Control in the Security Tab for the entire Medieval 2 Total War folder, and it still says "Access is Denied".

Right mouse click on TATW. CFG file, go to Properties, and uncheck Read-Only attribute at the bottom. Apply and OK. Now make your changes.

[Black_ice_Spain]

oh ok.

Thanks, thought it was nly for SS.

[Ayleid]

Could you keep us informed as to how this progresses? This feature in SS 6.3 has to be the most nifty feature implemented, soo much so that it has me still fixated upon M2TW despite the slow end turn times; which is cleverly helps avoid! Good job on highlighting this, by the way, have some + Rep!

[Black_ice_Spain]

Could you keep us informed as to how this progresses? This feature in SS 6.3 has to be the most nifty feature implemented, soo much so that it has me still fixated upon M2TW despite the slow end turn times; which is cleverly helps avoid! Good job on highlighting this, by the way, have some + Rep!

it also works on TATW


put this on TATW

[video]
windowed=true
borderless_window=true
;movies = false
show_banners = 0




i thought it didnt and was trying to do it manually. Altho just for fun, playing SS campaign atm.


Kaiser, what it does its that the game its played in a "window" but they remove borders and put it to max resolution so it looks like full screen.


bad things: Full screen focuses all resources on the game and windowed mode shares with OS and other programms.


* Good things: You can minimize, switch to your web browser while turn loads... etc etc. And you dont have to wait minimizing/maximizing because you dont really do it, you just make the browser go on top over the game. It works like a window which fills absolutely the whole screen. Like when you put your browser full screen (F11)


Mainlly if your PC is powerfull enough to run a game or have a multicore CPU in single core games (medieval only uses 1 core after all). Windowed rules .*

[ThaDoews]

So this is only "good" on computers with 1 CPU? Eventually, in what file do i have to put this?

[High Fist]

Aha that did it! Stealthfox ilu man! I had actually seen UAC mentioned but thought it was just for Vista.
Now I can play again, thank you very much man.

[High Fist]

Oh wait, nvm. Goddamn it it worked perfect but I just HAD to try and get rid of that border didn't I??

I'm absolutely livid. UAC is off. CFG is read-only. All I did was change "borderless_window = 1" to "= true". Now no variation of what I do is working.

[kaiser1993]

what exactly does it do, i have only heard of it recently and have no idea what it is?

[Harabec]

Definitely gotta try this out. More time to make frivolous posts during AI turns.

[High Fist]

Can somebody give me a hand? I've been trying to get Third Age into windowed mode for the last hour and a half. I've edited the text dozens of times, I've tried "windowed = true", "windowed = 1", I've checked and unchecked "read only" I've done every goddamn thing on the forums... But there's not a single change.

I have MOS installed, could that be stopping me? Although I have been editing the TATW.CFG file and I don't think there is a specific one for MOS. I really need to have this on windowed, the turns just take too long for me to enjoy playing.

Any help would be extremely appreciated and thanks in advance.

[StealthFox]

Try disabling UAC. Perhaps it is interfering with the file saving. There are two methods for doing this: Method 1 and Method 2.

[Mhaedros]

So the windowed disappeared as well? The 1 and the true means the same thing, so change it to 0 and see what happens.

[ElvenKind]

First, run TATW and in Video Options set to window mod. Exit TATW, open your medieval2.preference .CFG file, make the changes needed to run in window mod and then set that .CFG file to Read-Only attribute.

[High Fist]

I don't see anything mentioning a window in the Video Settings, would it be under another name?

Does it matter if every file in the TA folder is read-only? Say, if only the CFG file was read-only and everything else was not, would that make a difference?

[ElvenKind]

I don't see anything mentioning a window in the Video Settings, would it be under another name?

Does it matter if every file in the TA folder is read-only? Say, if only the CFG file was read-only and everything else was not, would that make a difference?

Sorry, windowed in Video Settings is for another TW game.

Open your TATW .CFG file and put this under [video] section:

[video]
windowed		= true
borderless_window       = true
;movies			= false
show_banners = 0

[High Fist]

Still no joy.

Idk what I'm doing wrong. It even worked in a window for a time, I changed "borderless_window = 1" to "= true" and now whatever I do doesn't work.

This is a tricky one.

As a side note my game saves seem to have been deleted. Perhaps that's linked to why this ain't working, but I really wouldn't know.