Minimal UI

**fergley** · March 15, 2007, 11:55 AM

Sorry for the noob question. Been playing M2TW since it came out, but it was the first Total War game I've played.

Anyways got bored with it and got tired of waiting for latest patch, so thought I'd try RTW out.

I edited the preferences.txt for Minimal UI in battle, but wanted to know if there is a way to still speed up the battles if this is enabled. couldnt seem to find a way to do so.

thanks

**Legionem Insanis** · October 05, 2008, 06:21 PM

i was wondering this myself

**Xavier Dragnesi** · October 05, 2008, 06:36 PM

Ah. Well I had this problem before. Unfortunately, it's not the most reliable, and you can't do double speed, only triple speed. To increase to triple speed, press Ctrl+T, and press again to go back to normal.

**decimator22** · October 05, 2008, 08:36 PM

Just go to options, and where it says double, triple and normal speed. Doble click and put your key,that way you just click it and it changes.

**Saint_jimmyz** · October 06, 2008, 12:01 PM

With minimised UI you can use the F5, F6 and F7 buttons to toggle useful windows.

F5 toggles the map

F6 toggles the command window

F7 toggles the unit window

**Legionem Insanis** · October 06, 2008, 08:59 PM

this is why i love you people

**Dafuge** · October 09, 2008, 01:43 PM

Saint_Jimmyz I believe them windows contain the speed trigger.

**Saint_jimmyz** · October 09, 2008, 02:55 PM

They probably do, but I use Ctrl + T anyway.

**Dafuge** · October 10, 2008, 01:29 PM

If I could correct myself, they don't contain the speed trigger.

**Saint_jimmyz** · October 10, 2008, 04:50 PM

Ok thanks. I used Ctrl + T anyway.

**Dafuge** · October 11, 2008, 06:40 AM

Yeah, I usually use it when I play mods, so I can just turn off the bars and watch the battle like in the movies.

**Saint_jimmyz** · October 11, 2008, 02:07 PM

Same. It also looks A LOT better when using screenshots for AAR's. If you look at my Thracian one (the siggie is the link) you can compare similar screenshots, with and without all the UI and bars.

**Dafuge** · October 12, 2008, 04:03 AM

If you want to use it for screenshots I also suggest turning off the green unit triangles in your preferences.

**Scutarii** · October 12, 2008, 05:05 PM

^^Don't forget turning off banners as well if you want to take nice-looking screenshots.

**Saint_jimmyz** · October 13, 2008, 12:58 AM

All of which can be done by editing the preferences.txt file!

For no banners find or add this line:

SHOW_BANNERS:FALSE

For the green arrows:

DISABLE_ARROW_MARKERS:TRUE

For the Minimized Interface:

MINIMAL_UI:TRUE