A little feature about screen size

[Arizal]

For once, I'm not talking about how to renew entirely diplomacy and stuffs like that.

It's just that I have a laptop which I also use with a wide screen when I'm at home. It would be great if we could change the game's resolution in the launcher, instead of each time going into the setting file. (one could also recommend me to put a shortcut to this file, but we can be a little slothful about that...)

 

[AndrewT]

Edits to the settings.txt file ought to be preserved. If they are not I can only assume you have installed the game under the system path c:\program files\ or similar , which can prevent you from saving your settings.

 

[Jaol]

Edits to the settings.txt file ought to be preserved. If they are not I can only assume you have installed the game under the system path c:\program files\ or similar , which can prevent you from saving your settings.

I think he wants to change back and forth between different screen sizes depending on which monitor he's using.

On a loosely related subject, is there any way to "save" one's default selection of mods? I mean have the mods you usually play pre-ticked in the launcher.

 

[vince0018]

In regards to the resolution I am partially on the way to working out a solution for you, but I might need some help from someone.
There's a program called Q-Res, which I've used for other games. ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/qres/ )
Placing the Q-Res.exe as well as a modified .bat alongside your games .exe can have the game automatically set the resolution each time you use that .bat (you can create a shortcut to desktop.)
So you could have two .bats each with a different resolution set.

However when testing this on CKII it seems the game attempts to change to the resolution I've set in the .bat, but reverts to the resolution set in the options once the game officially starts.
I'm not sure how to work around this or if anyone has any insight.

To make these .bat files just create a .txt document by right-clicking>new>text document;
Rename the .exe to .bat; you can name the .bat what you like
then paste into the document:

@echo off
QRes.exe /x:800 /y:600 /r:60
ck2.exe
QRes.exe /x:1680 /y:1050

But replace the top resolution numbers to the one you want to set when starting the game, and the bottom resolution numbers you want to set when exiting the game. (to revert to desktop settings or what-have-you)
But for this to work you need the QRes.exe and .bat both alongside the ck2.exe in the games directory.

Another issue it seems is if using the Steam version (such as myself) I'm not sure how to set this up to run through Steam properly to record your hours, etc.
The above issue and the major one that the game resets to default resolution anyways, rendering this whole process useless, kind of sucks.
It does work for other games (Unepic is the one I need it for) but I'm not sure on the resolution mechanics for this game.


Due to increased paranoia and virus/hacking, etc; attacks, I'm hesitant as to whether attaching the QRes.exe is allowed here or not. I take great caution in anything I download from the internet, especially .exe's so I completely understand, even encourage, anyone's caution for downloading anything suspicious, but I assure you I'm just trying to help and you can do all the research on QRes yourself through google if you like.

Of course if we can even get it working for this particular game.
Vince

 

[Arizal]

Thank you, Vince. I didn't tried your "fix", because you are saying yourself that it is not working at the moment, but I would be glad if you could post back here when it will work. Really, it is just a little annoying issue, not a big deal. But still, it could be fun to avoid editing the txt file each time. For now, I will go with creating a shortcut from the txt file.