Crusader Kings II

Crusader Kings II was released in 2012 and developed and published by Paradox Interactive.

It is the sequel to Crusader Kings, which was released in 2004.

Issues and Fixes

Activation Code Length

Fill the missing code spaces using X's, AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCC would go in as AAAA-ABBB-BBCC-CCXX-XXXX-XXXX.

Graphical Tweaks

Anisotropic Filtering

To enable anisotropic filtering, open settings.txt before navigating to the following line:

anisotropic_filtering=0

Change this value to any number greater than 0 and less than 8 for varying degrees of anisotropic filtering.

Settings.txt

To modify several graphics and resolution settings you will need to locate and open this file. It is located at:

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\

Improvements

Borderless Fullscreen Windowed

Whilst this feature is not natively supported, a similar effect can be achieved by setting the game to windowed mode and setting a custom resolution. To do this, navigate to settings.txt (see above for the file location). Open this file, and locate this line:

fullscreen=yes

Change it to the following:

fullscreen=no

Now locate the line dictating resolution:

size=
{
	x=[Desired x-axis resolution value]
	y=[Desired y-axis resolution value]
}

Set the values for x and y to your monitor resolution and the game will run in a borderless fullscreen windowed mode. Note some text-blurring may occur.

Console Commands

Press ` in-game to enter console commands, before typing the following:

• fow on/off - Turn fog of war on/off
• cash - Gives player 5000 gold
• piety - Gives player 5000 piety
• prestige - Gives player 5000 prestige

SSD Loading

Due to the lengthy load times of the game, it can be beneficial to install the game to a Solid State Drive (SSD) if possible, as this will significantly reduce these loading times.

Windowed Mode

Change the following line:

fullscreen=yes

to the following:

fullscreen=no