M2TW Config File How To's

[BuchVecny]

i think yes... the question is if ur comp can handle it... i can hardly run the game on defaults

[antaeus]

you can also alt-tab out of the game at any point too dont forget.

just alt tab to the desktop, play your music, alt tab back and continue playing the game leaving your music in the background. i do it all the time..

[B. Ward]

yea in your cfg file put the command line

[video]
windowed = true

it helps especially if you're into modding any game files so you won't get the dreaded black screen and have to reboot your system. and whatever you have the game resolution set to, that's what the window size will be.

[Goatbuster3000]

Yeah, bdotward pretty much capitalized on that. I find it most useful for when you wish to put garrisons in your newly created settlements. You can get the coordinates of the settlement, then minimize the window and input the coordinates into the descr_strat.

[Trajan]

Thread merged with 'Heres a good one: Can we run the game in a window mode?' because it's already covered in this thread.

[Vanquisher]

Thanks, great thread.

[Ahlerich]

how do i turn on the speeches that generals make before a battle??

i looked through the whole post and sound/general options and i cant find it

[AveCaesar]

Ok, I'm partially lost. The only thing I cant get is how to open the darn preferences.cfg folder. What do I open it with? And yes, I have patch 1 and have unpacked. Thanks in advance to anybody!

Never mind, Wordpad...

[Sylesia]

Ok, so I am working on this, and I have added a few provinces. Added one first to make sure it worked, and it did, so added a couple at once. Checked all I could and see no issues... but when I go to game and tell it to start the camp, it goes back to the screen of which single player ways I want to play. Added the line to create logs, but no logs are created, any idea why?

The portion of my cfg is as follows

tutorial_battle_played = 0
tutorial_path = norman_prologue/battle_of_hastings
unit_size = normal
unlimited_men_on_battlefield = 0
use_quickchat = 0

[log]
to = logs/system.log.txt level = * error

[multiplayer]
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

[The Thracian]

I can't seem to make the text file and rename the file extension to .bat?

[Sylesia]

What you do is open up notepad, and write the line. Do save as, under file type, do all. Than save as mymod.bat

[EzE]

Sylesia,

I had the same problem and mine was a problem with using a upper case "P" in Province everywhere but in one place where I used a lower case "p" instead. Once I fixed that it worked fine. It looks to be case sensitive so check that.

EzE

[Aromir]

I used Hot Seat a lot when it was availeble in 1.1, and now that i got 1.2 i would like to play Hot Seat, how ever im having some trouble actually activating it.

Here i found a surgestion to how to activate it.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=91876

But when i looked in my Medieval2.preference.cfg it looked like this:
[video]
widescreen=0
[game]
allusers=1

Wich is very unlike the big text filled file that i am used to from 1.1, i tried adding the surgested text to the file however it didn't work.

So i have a long line of questions
Is my Medieval2.preference.cfg supose to look like that?
What exsactly should i do to activate the Hot seat mode in 1.2?
And when i enter the game how can i start a Hot Seat game, is it like 1.1?

[Gundug]

I just used the same .cfg file with hotseat code that worked for the previous version. It seemed fine. That is not working for you?

[Aromir]

Well that depends what is that you were using last version.

I tryed with these two:

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 0
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

[multiplayer]
playable = true

[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 0
disable_console = 1
disable_papal_elections = 0
save_prefs = 1
update_ai_camera = 0
validate_diplomacy = 1

None of them seemed to work. But how is hotseat in 1.2 is it the same way as in 1.1 where you just selected an extra faction or do you have to do something special?

[tornnight]

This works for me. Dunno what could be wrong with yours.

[multiplayer]
playable = true

[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 0
disable_console = 0
disable_papal_elections = 0
save_prefs = 0
update_ai_camera = 0
validate_diplomacy = 1

[Aromir]

Okay tried that with no effect, it also seems i cant access console, its like the game isn't even reading the file, anybody have some advice on how to fix this?

[alpaca]

Try to change a setting in the game (with preferences.cfg unlocked), that should rewrite it. Then add your settings.

[Aromir]

Okay tried that didn't to have any effect on the file but, there is a few things i would like to have cleared up:

By setting you mean any of those settings availeble i the option menu, like unit size and camera settings?

What do you mean by unlocked? Is this file locked by default or something? in that case how do you disable it?

[alpaca]

Okay tried that didn't to have any effect on the file but, there is a few things i would like to have cleared up:

By setting you mean any of those settings availeble i the option menu, like unit size and camera settings?

What do you mean by unlocked? Is this file locked by default or something? in that case how do you disable it?

I meant not read-only. If you can edit it, forget I mentioned it at all