Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition – How to Automatically Skip the Intro Videos

How to automatically skip the intro videos at the launch of the game.

Guide to Skip Videos

Quickstart

The intro videos can be skipped automatically by adding the following launch option to the game:

• +noIntroCinematics.

Please see the “Detailed instructions” section if you’ve having trouble locating where to set the launch options.

Detailed Instructions

Open game properties by right-clicking the game in your Steam library:

On the “General” tab, click “Set launch options…”:

Copy and paste the following text to the input field:

• +noIntroCinematics.

Click OK and try launching the game. The intro videos should no longer be played and instead you should directly see this window after the initial splash screen: