How can I turn off the intro of Settlers 3?
Background
Settlers 3 starts with a nice animated intro to animate the story Settlers 3 is all about. This intro lasts several minutes and can be interrupted at any time with a mouse click.
However, it is also possible to deactivate the intro so that it is not even displayed when Settlers 3 starts. This is done as follows.
When using the aLobby, this setting is already deactivated by the aLobby to allow a faster start of multiplayer games. This applies to aLobby version 3.6.1 and higher. With all previous aLobby versions, the setting was reset when reinstalling Settlers 3 and may have to be set manually (as described below).
Action
- Call up the Settlers 3 installation directory. In this directory is the S3.EXE but also the SETUPS3.EXE.
- Call up the SETUPS3.EXE by double-clicking.
- Confirm the request from Windows if you really want to start it.
- In the window that appears, switch to „Sound / Video“ and remove the check mark in front of „Intro“.
- Click on „Save settings“.
- You're done. You can now start Settlers 3 without an intro.