Just a quick post here regarding Settlers 7 and windowed mode. Although the in game UI doesn’t say the game supports running the game in a window, you can be changing your settings file. You can find the file in the Settlers7 folder under the “My Documents” folder. Open the “Options.ini” file and change the following.
[Quality] FullScreen = 0 ScreenHeight = 960 ScreenWidth = 1280
Now, if only someone could tell me why the game still thinks DoF is on when the options file reads it as being set to zero! Happy settling.
[Display] BillboardClouds = 1 Clutter = 1 Particles = 1 Sky = 1 [Effects] Antialiasing = 0 DepthOfField = 1 Fog = 1 Multisampling = 0 Parallax = 1 SSAO = 1 Shadows = 1 SunShafts = 1 [Quality] AspectMode = 0 ClutterQuality = 2 DistanceCulling = 2 FullScreen = 0 MultiGPU = 0 MultiThreadedGL = 0 ObjectQuality = 2 ScreenHeight = 1050 ScreenWidth = 1680 ShaderQuality = 2 ShadowQuality = 2 TerrainDetailMaps = 1 TextureQuality = 2 Upscaling = 2 WaterQuality = 2
Update: Added full Options file.
Hey i bet it works on a windows but i run a mac and the .ini trick didn’t work for me. I get a screen error when i change those settings and when i only use FullScreen = 0 it plays the game with no window at all.
How can i get windowed mode on my mac?
Thanks in advance
Hmph. That is a good question. Since I don’t have access to a Mac, I can’t test options or ideas. It might be the case that it simply can’t be done on the Mac and perhaps that is the reason for no official support on the PC version.
I can’t start the game without windowed mode and I can’t get an options.ini file to change settings in without starting the game, could you copy/paste the content of the file so I could make my own?
@Drudley – I added the full file to the article. I hope this helps!