Originally developed by The Creative Assembly
Developed for Linux by Feral Interactive Limited
Published for Linux by Feral Interactive Limited
This document is intended to help you answer any questions that you may have about Medieval II: Total War™
If you have purchased Medieval II: Total War Collection, you already own the Kingdoms expansion.
Otherwise, you can purchase the expansion from its page on the Steam store:
Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms
Playing Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms
The Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms expansion contains four new campaigns that can be played in either single-player or “hotseat” multiplayer mode:
Each campaign also includes a number of new scenario battles and maps for custom battles.
Once you have purchased Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms, a dialog will appear each time you launch Medieval II: Total War™, giving you the opportunity to select whether you want to play the base game or one of the Kingdoms campaigns.
A glitch sometimes occurs during the campaign tutorial that makes it impossible to order Rufus to board the fleet when your advisor tells you to do so.
If this occurs, move the fleet back and forth along the small stretch of coastline south of William the Conqueror's location, until it has run out of movement points. You can then end the turn by clicking on the highlighted hourglass icon.
Once the new turn begins, you will be able to order Rufus to board the fleet.
Medieval II: Total War™ has been fully tested on Ubuntu 14.04. For the best gameplay experience, we recommend you use this distro.
The game should also work on other recent versions of Ubuntu, and may also work on other Linux distros; however, as the game has not been tested on these, it is possible that you will encounter performance and gameplay issues, and we do not currently offer support for other versions or distros.
The graphics card series and driver versions below have been tested, and these and higher series or versions will run the game without issues:
AMD
Series: R7
Driver version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA)*
Intel
Series: Intel Iris Pro
Driver version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-843cec6 2015-12-23 wily-oibaf-ppa)*
Nvidia
Series: 6xx
Driver version: 352.55
NOTE: Open-source Nvidia graphics drivers are not currently supported by Medieval II: Total War™. Unfortunately, the current open-source Nvidia drivers do not support a number of the graphical features used in the game.
* Mesa 11.2 driver still in active development.
Switching between a virtual terminal (by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6) and the X server (by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F7) while the game is running may cause the game to crash or the graphics to render incorrectly.
The problem will be fixed the next time you launch the game.
We do not recommend switching to a virtual terminal while running the game, as the problem is likely to occur each time you do so.
There are several factors which have an impact on the speed at which Medieval II: Total War™ runs. Please see the Medieval II: Total War™ Performance Tips section in the ReadMe for ways to increase the speed at which the game runs on your computer.
Please read the technical support information in the ReadMe; this tells you what to check and if necessary, how to contact Feral Technical Support with your issue.