Crusader Kings II

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Video settings

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

1. Open %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\Settings.txt
2. Go to anisotropic_filtering=0
3. Change this value to any number greater than 0 and less than 8 for varying degrees of anisotropic filtering.

Windowed

1. Open %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\Settings.txt
2. Change fullscreen=yes to fullscreen=no

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.

Open %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\Settings.txt
Change fullscreen=yes to 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 ` or Alt+Numpad 2+Numpad 1 in-game to enter console commands, before typing the following:

• fow - Toggle fog of war on/off
• clear - Clears the console
• nextsong - Forces the game to skip the current song
• observe - Enables the AI for your old ruler, leaving you only to observe what's going on in the game(good for testing)
• charinfo 1 - Makes possible to see the character ID in his tooltip
• cash <#> - Gives player gold
• piety <#> - Gives player piety
• prestige <#> - Gives player prestige
• kill <character ID> - Kill indicated character
• religion <set name> - Changes your religion
• marry_anyone - Marry anyone, including close family
• imprison <character ID> - Makes the corresponding character your prisoner
• banish <character ID> - Makes the corresponding character to flee his current court
• allow_laws - Makes possible to change crown and succession laws at will
• play <character ID> - Control the corresponding character
• plots_known - (Default is on) Turn the ability to see plots on and off
• discover_plots - Searches through plots in your realm and discovers them
• culture <set name> - Changes your culture
• give_title <title ID> <character ID> - Gives the corresponding character the desired title(Usually the titles are k_title for Kingdoms, d_title for Duchies, c_title for Counties and b_title for Baronies)
• claim <title ID> - Forges a claim for you on the corresponding title
• event <event ID> <character ID> - Triggers an event to the corresponding character, if not provided with a character ID, it will trigger for your current ruler
• age <character ID> <#> - Modifies the corresponding character age
• add_martial <character ID> <#> - Change the martial stat of the corresponding character
• add_diplomacy <character ID> <#> - Change the diplomacy stat of the corresponding character
• add_stewardship <character ID> <#> - Change the stewardship stat of the corresponding character
• add_intrigue <character ID> <#> - Change the intrigue stat of the corresponding character
• add_learning <character ID> <#> - Change the learning stat of the corresponding character
• pollinate <mother ID> <father ID> - Makes the woman pregnant with the child of the corresponding character

Issues and Fixes

Activation Code Length

If your activation code is too short for the code input box upon installation, fill the additiona spaces with the character 'X', e.g. for a code formatted as AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCC you would input it as AAAA-ABBB-BBCC-CCXX-XXXX-XXXX.

Graphics Card Stress/Overheating

This is a likely cause of a game crash if your system only just meets the minimum system requirements to run the game. With such crashes, usually your graphics card will be at fault. One way to reduce stress on your graphics card is to turn off some of the more system-intensive options.

1. Open %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\Settings.txt
2. Change draw_trees=yes to draw_trees=no
3. Change draw_rivers=yes to draw_rivers=no
4. Change draw_postfx=yes to draw_postfx=no
5. Change draw_sky=yes to draw_sky=no
6. Change draw_bloom=yes to draw_bloom=no

This will prevent the game from rendering trees and thus significantly reduce the amount of information your graphics card has to process, in turn reducing the overall load on your system.

Multiplayer Incompatible Versions

Your game version is given by "CK2 v<version> (<checksum>)" (for example, "CK2 v1.06 (YYEV)"). After a multiplayer match, its possible for the checksum to change in some PCs (for example, to "CK2 v1.06 (ZYEV)"), while the others keep the same checksum. This won't allow you to play in multiplayer due to incompatible versions. Restarting the game fixes this problem.

System requirements

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