Medieval 2: TW Borderless Window mode

[Guvenoren]

Wanna game with borderless window? Here's what you wanna do.

1. Locate "medieval2.preference.cfg" located in "steam\steamapps\common\Medieval II Total War".
2. open it, scroll to the very bottom until the last thing is "widescreen = 1 (or 0 depending on settings)".
3. Add the lines as follows (copy and paste):
windowed=true
borderless_window=true
4. ctrl+save (or just save it).
5. right click on "medieval2.preference.cfg" and select properties. Write protect the document and apply.

And you're done :) This worked for me.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/5ktf14/medieval_2_fullscreen_borderless_window/

Just here to spread the knowledge.

[Gigantus]

The ingame resolution needs to be at least as large as the desktop resolution - else you will have a partial window.

Standard entries for modders - it lowers the chance of a crash when alt tabbing.

[Leenday]

Thanks a lot

[a7492]

"The ingame resolution needs to be at least as large as the desktop resolution" - what if you are on a 4k screen? I've tried setting the in-game resolution to 4k and it always crashes so I run at regular HD. Does that mean I can't have borderless window?

[Gigantus]

There is a limit to the resolution that the game can run (it's a decade old 32bit application) as a full size, borderless window.

[LCDC]

Originally posted by Guvenoren:

Wanna game with borderless window? Here's what you wanna do.

1. Locate "medieval2.preference.cfg" located in "steam\steamapps\common\Medieval II Total War".
2. open it, scroll to the very bottom until the last thing is "widescreen = 1 (or 0 depending on settings)".
3. Add the lines as follows (copy and paste):
windowed=true
borderless_window=true
4. ctrl+save (or just save it).
5. right click on "medieval2.preference.cfg" and select properties. Write protect the document and apply.

And you're done :) This worked for me.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/5ktf14/medieval_2_fullscreen_borderless_window/

Just here to spread the knowledge.

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[krashd]

Originally posted by a7x492:

"The ingame resolution needs to be at least as large as the desktop resolution" - what if you are on a 4k screen? I've tried setting the in-game resolution to 4k and it always crashes so I run at regular HD. Does that mean I can't have borderless window?

If your card has AMD FSR or the Nvidia equivalent then you can use that to upscale the game to your desktop resolution, so basically the game would be in 1440p (or another resolution) but the GPU would scale that up to a 4K window, and since the window is now the same resolution as your desktop you would be able to enable borderless.

I've been meaning to experiment with FSR so I could achieve borderless in older pre-1080p games on my 1440p screen, but I haven't got round to it yet so you would have to Google it or tinker with it yourself.

Also..
'Windowed Borderless Gaming' is a brilliant app for games that don't come with windowed or borderless settings, I reckon that with that app, FSR, command line arguments and config settings someone should theoretically be able to get just about any game to run borderless.

[Gigantus]

'Windowed borderless' in M2TW is generally meant for modders\developers as it stops the game from crashing every now and then when you Alt+Tab out of the game - something that you will do frequently when testing your mod.
Otherwise it's not needed as the game is full screen anyhow.

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[Guvenoren]

I like how I still get comments on this topic.

[LCDC]

Originally posted by Guvenoren:

I like how I still get comments on this topic.

lol

[Avvaraax]

its just frustrating for me because i did all of this and even made sure to make this read only and it still doesnt work...

[LCDC]

Originally posted by LCDC:

Originally posted by Guvenoren:

I like how I still get comments on this topic.

lol

I should start marking my calender as this is becoming a yearly occurence

[SonnyD]

What does protect the document mean and where do i write it?

[LCDC]

*marks calender*

[Gigantus]

Originally posted by SonnyD:

What does protect the document mean and where do i write it?

Simply follow the instruction and it will get revealed to you:

right click on "medieval2.preference.cfg" and select properties. Write protect the document and apply.

And 'write protect' does exactly that: it protects the file from being written to\edited.