M2TW Config File How To's

**irishron** · July 05, 2012, 07:42 PM

Could youi ever start a campaign on this computer?

**mrhamster1** · July 05, 2012, 11:22 PM

yeah It worked perfectly until I messed around a bit. Now I can't even see the screen.

**irishron** · July 06, 2012, 06:23 AM

I'd say you need a clean reinstall of the game. If it still does it, the problem is elsewhere.

**mrhamster1** · July 06, 2012, 07:27 PM

How do you do a clean reinstall? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game like 3 times. The problem never got resolved

**irishron** · July 06, 2012, 08:07 PM

Steam or dvd or other download?

XP,Vista or Win7?

**mrhamster1** · July 06, 2012, 10:01 PM

CD, Win7

**irishron** · July 06, 2012, 10:34 PM

uninstall the game starting with the Kingdoms campaigns. Any other order messes it up.
Delete both Medieval2 folders, Program files (x860 and users\username\appdata\roaming\you're on your own.
Run a registry cleaner like Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. The uninstaller does not remove them.
Restart your computer.
Install the game in C:\Games with the UAC disabled. The game hate the UAC and the games folder will get you out of the virtual store garbage.

**mrhamster1** · July 07, 2012, 10:40 AM

Thanks for the help. Gigantus helped me solve the issue through the Virtual store thing. It's similar to what you just said

**~~RubiconDecision~~** · May 05, 2013, 09:10 PM

There is a cfg switch called"
[misc]
nice
Where I believe that the value for nice can = 0-6. I believe this to be so since in the kingdoms.exe there is a nice value of 0-6 for the cinematic editor. I have no idea what it does, or what each level does, or if the values for the attribute are the same or if it is 0 or 1. Does anyone know or what its function is?

**alreadyded** · January 16, 2017, 12:10 AM

Any way to set it up so 'Use Passwords' in Hotseat is disabled by default?

**Gigantus** · January 20, 2017, 09:05 PM

Here you are:

[hotseat]
passwords = 0 # use individual passwords for players

**alreadyded** · January 20, 2017, 09:51 PM

Thanks. Does 'campaign_map_speed_up' make it so you don't have to press space to speed it up? Currently I have scripts that do it for me

, would be nice to find a better way though.

Also, any way to have the menu default to very hard? And have no battle time limit enabled by default? I tried no_campaign_battle_time_limit and no_battle_time_limit, it didn't work for me.

**Gigantus** · January 20, 2017, 10:28 PM

Fast strat movements by default:
[game]
campaign_map_speed_up = 1

No battle time limit:
[game]
no_campaign_battle_time_limit = 1

While you can test in the script for the battle and campaign difficulty level there is no way to preset it either in the CFG file or the script that I know of. It does however have to be set somewhere as once chosen the level remains the same for the next game.

**alreadyded** · January 20, 2017, 10:53 PM

Muy Apreciado!

**alpalp1977** · March 11, 2017, 02:27 AM

Hi,

How do I change the resolution under steam installation? There is no medieval2.preference.cfg file. Not even any *.cfg files.

The reason I'm asking is that I couldn't get the game working under various configurations. I'm trying to run the game under Playonlinux (wine versions 1.8 to 2.3) but what I see is only some color changes in the screen with music. I'm able to click things but can't see anything than colors... I think being able to change the resolution to my laptops native resolution could help...

The laptops I tried to run have following specs: ubuntu14 + i5 Cpu + HD4000 graphics, other one: ubuntu16 + some pentium dual core Cpu + gma graphics. The linux version shows only splash screen.

The last thing I'm going to try is install windows under VM