How to stop the opening movies

[HarunTaiwan]

I recall someone posted how to do this, but several googles of the forum have not found the thread.

Thanks for the help!

[therother]

What you do is you create a Windows shortcut to RomeTW.exe, open up its Properties, and on the line where it gives the target you add -nm to the end. There are other options, such as -ne for running in non-fullscreen mode.

[frogbeastegg]

Didn't know of this one; great. I'll add it to the guide as well; it's a popular question.

[tai4ji2x]

if you want to save about 25mb of disk space you can also just delete the videos from your /data/fmv/ folder

[Shadar]

As soon as they attempt to start up, after that red Rome total war introduction screen, press Escape twice quickly, and that loads up the menu

Thats one way to do it. i wouldn't recommend deleting the movies since that may actually screw yourself up, because its trying to load an incorrect file (that doesn't exist) it'll probably crash...

[Calmarac]

i wouldn't recommend deleting the movies since that may actually screw yourself up, because its trying to load an incorrect file (that doesn't exist) it'll probably crash...

I simply renamed the `fmv` folder to `Backup_fmv`. It works fine, the movies aren`t shown and the game doesn`t crash trying to find them.

[Mikeus Caesar]

There are other options, such as -ne for running in non-fullscreen mode

ooh, really? If possible, could you write out the entire file thingamabob, so i can try this?

[Craterus]

does it really bother you that much?
i just press escape twice and be done with it! it's not that hard really...

[therother]

ooh, really? If possible, could you write out the entire file thingamabob, so i can try this?

http://area42.wildfiregames.com/foru...opic.php?t=135

There is also -enable_editor option, which enables the battle editor.

[HarunTaiwan]

The reason I ask, is because my movies are slow and messed up...though the game works fine.

I also had Itunes boot up while the movies were going and had to wait for the movies to end before I could do anything...double Esc didn't work in that case.

Thanks for the ideas.

[Sid_Quibley]

Ive deleted the startup movies on all the installs of rome that ive made and never had a crash because of it.

They are located in data/fmv.

[Puzz3D]

Just put the argument -nm in the shortcut to stop the movies.

[Garik]

anyway to centre that? just to be picky.

[Butcher]

Actually, I seem to have lost both ingame fmv and the intro fmv without doing anything.
Very strange.

[ThePeskyPorker]

Is there a way to disable the video that plays in the senate tab on the campaign map as well? Deleting/removing it crashes the game.

[AntiochusIII]

What about...how can I change the "Faction Eliminated" movies (faction's flag) to the "Death" (bodies everywhere) one? Those Death clips have never been used but it's so cool and it makes itself clear that this faction is...Dead.

[hrvojej]

What about...how can I change the "Faction Eliminated" movies (faction's flag) to the "Death" (bodies everywhere) one? Those Death clips have never been used but it's so cool and it makes itself clear that this faction is...Dead.

In descr_event_images.txt find the faction defeated code and replace with something like this:

faction_defeated
	icon	diplomacy
	heading_items	3
	format
	{
		title        center verdana		black	
		string		 center verdana_med	black
		switch
		{
			case 0
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_julii_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 1
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_brutii_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 2
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_scipii_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 3
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_SPQR_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 4
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_macedon_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 5
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_egypt_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 6
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_seleucid_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 7
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_carthage_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 8
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_parthia_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 9
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_pontus_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 10
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_gaul_snow_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 11
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_german_snow_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 12
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_britons_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 13
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_armenia_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 14
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_dacia_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 15
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_greek_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 16
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_numidia_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 17
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_scythia_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 18
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_spain_grass_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 19
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_thrace_sand_320x240.wmv
			}
			case 20
			{
				movie		 center 320 240	data/fmv/death/death_rebels_grass_320x240.wmv
			}

Backup the file first, of course, and be careful about formatting (i.e. don;t just copy this over, but type it in the actual file.
Cheers,

edit: to clarify: basically, just replace the name of the movies

[AntiochusIII]

Thank you