How To Disable Green Arrows And Banners

This is a quick guide to disabling the Green Arrows and Unit Banners in Medieval 2: Total War.

Disabling the Green Arrows

1. Go to your "Medieval II Total War" folder.
2. Find the file preferences.cfg.
3. Right click on it and open it using notepad. (If the file is not there or is empty, start M2TW and go to the main menu, then quit.)
4. Scroll down to the [game] section and find the line that has:

'disable_arrow_markers = 0'

And change it to this:

'disable_arrow_markers = 1'

The Green Arrows are now disabled.

If using Windows 7 your preference file is located

for 64bit C:\Users\{YourUsername}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War

for 32bit C:\Users\{YourUsername}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War

Disabling the Unit Banners

1. Go to your "Medieval II Total War" folder.
2. Find the file preferences.cfg.
3. Right click on it and open it using notepad. (If the file isn't there or has nothing in it, start M2TW and go to the main menu, then quit.)
4. Scroll down to the [video] section and find the line:

'show_banners = 1'

And change it to this:

'show_banners = 0'

The Unit Banners should now be disabled.

Thanks to Aristocrat for creating the original article