Crusader Kings II
Developers | |
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Paradox Development Studio | |
Publishers | |
Paradox Interactive | |
Engines | |
Clausewitz | |
Release dates | |
Windows | February 14, 2012 |
macOS (OS X) | May 24, 2012 |
Linux | January 14, 2013 |
Crusader Kings | |
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Crusader Kings | 2004 |
Crusader Kings II | 2012 |
Crusader Kings III | 2020 |
Key points
- Performance can be poor in the later game due to the increased save game size and the increased number of calculations that have to be performed.
- Many of the game's tutorials are broken and cause it to crash.
General information
Availability
- Steam version can be launched without Steam running.
- Has got a lot of DLC available.
Game data
- This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Improvements
- Note that any mods installed will use the
settings.txt
located in the mod subfolder, e.g.%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\A Game of Thrones\
Notable mods
- A Song of Ice and Fire, also known as the Game of Thrones mod.
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Video settings
Windowed
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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.
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Anisotropic filtering (AF)
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Console commands
- All the console commands can be found on the Crusader Kings II wiki. Only some of the debug commands are listed below.
Press `
(or the equivalent key above TAB on your keyboard) or Alt+Numpad 2+Numpad 1
in-game to enter console commands.
fullscreen
- Toggles fullscreenclear
- Clears the consoledebug_assert
- Toggles asserts on/offdebug_bloom
- Toggles bloom on/offdebug_borders
- Toggles borders on/offdebug_citysprawl
- Toggles city sprawl on/offdebug_dumpevents
- Dumps event data to game logdebug_hires
- Toggles terrain hires mode on/offdebug_info
- Toggles debug infodebug_lines
- Toggles debuglinesdebug_nogui
- Toggles GUI on/offdebug_nomouse
- Toggles mouse scrollwheel on/offdebug_postfx
- Toggles postFX on/offdebug_rivers
- Toggles rivers on/offdebug_sky
- Toggles sky on/offdebug_smooth
- Toggles frame smoothing on/offdebug_terrain
- Toggles terrain on/offdebug_textures
- Dumps texture info to debug logdebug_tooltip
- Toggles tooltips on/offdebug_trees
- Toggles trees on/offdebug_water
- Toggles water on/offdebug_wireframe
- Toggles forced wireframe on/offhelp
- Print out all console commands or a specific command's descriptionobserve
- Switches to play no character at allrefresh_portraits
- Refreshes all character portraits as soon as possiblereload filename
- Reloads the gui or lua filereloadinterface
- Reloads the entire interfacereloadtexture texture-filename
- Reloads the specified texture
Issues fixed
Activation code length
If your activation code is too short for the code input box upon installation, fill the additional 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.
- Open
settings.txt
in the game data folder - Change
draw_trees=yes
todraw_trees=no
- Change
draw_rivers=yes
todraw_rivers=no
- Change
draw_postfx=yes
todraw_postfx=no
- Change
draw_sky=yes
todraw_sky=no
- Change
draw_bloom=yes
todraw_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.[1]
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
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | XP/Vista/7 | |
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | ||
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | NVIDIA GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon X1900 512 MB of VRAM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.6.8 | |
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | ||
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon HD 6750 / NVIDIA GeForce 320 / NVIDIA GeForce 9600 |
Linux | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | |
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | ||
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon HD 6750 / NVIDIA GeForce 320 / NVIDIA GeForce 9600 1 GB of VRAM |