How do you disable the intro movies?

[FrustratedPoet]

They're very nice, but I only wanted to see them once and now it's annoying to click through them every time I boot the game.

Is it possible to disable them?

[GodSpawn]

I haven't tried this, but there's a key in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations\FIRSTRUN

Mine is set to 1, even though I've run the game several times. Maybe if you set it to 0, the video will go away.

[FrustratedPoet]

I'd rather not mess around with the registry unless I knew exactly what the effect would be, but thanks for the idea anyway.
I may try it if I get desperate

[bhg_paul]

Check out the settings in rise2.ini. I don't recall the exact string but it should be obvious.

[wilebill]

The file you want is rise2.ini. The string is something like ShowIntroMovie=1, just replace the 1 with a 0 and save the file as rise2.ini. No more intro movies. My problem is just the opposite. Attempting to run the game with intro movies crashes the game instantly, so I have never seen them.

[LordGek]

Yep, what he said...

Doh, somebody beat me to it but realize that a 1 = true so to skip the movies the value needs to be a 1 and started as a 0 (false).


Hey There,

Right there in the RISE2.INI, fairly early in the list is:

SkipIntroMovies=0

Change that to:

SkipIntroMovies=1

And the movies are no more, there is still a bit of a loading pause before you get to the Main Menu but no movies.

[FrustratedPoet]

Thanks a lot guys.