Age of Empires 2 on Windows 7 has color issues

Anonymous
2009-05-15T17:57:15+00:00

Hello, i want to run Age of Empires 2 on my Windows 7 rc computer. But there are color issuse when i run it, the grass aren't green and the water isent blue. How should i do to fix this? I have try to run it complatify with windows xp service pack 2, and installd some driexct 9 drivers. but not result to better colors. I hope someone have a good answer, because i love this game.

Frozzare, Scout in Sweden

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Anonymous
2009-05-29T12:28:55+00:00

Go into task manager select the processes tab and end explorer.exe then alt-tab back into age of empires

Note: this will make your task bar disapear and any open folders

To restart explorer open the task manager agian in the aplications tab hit new task and type explorer in the box

The colours change because of the Aero theme's poor handling of colours

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You can also make a batch file with the following lines and place it in the same location as your age of empires 2 executable

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe

age2_x1.exe

Start explorer.exe

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-06T23:31:33+00:00

    I eventually bought AOE2 HD from steam and so far its been working very well.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-02T19:53:37+00:00

    Type in page 18 of these posts and go to the LAST PAGE.  You will see the isepiq post with the Xomicron OFFICIAL legitimate FIX there.  Try THAT ONE, NONE of the others.  I build and repair computers and the Xomicron FIX when applied correctly has worked every time for me without fail.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-30T11:20:43+00:00

    This didnt work for me.. still the same color issues

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-05-05T06:40:48+00:00

    Go into task manager select the processes tab and end explorer.exe then alt-tab back into age of empires

    Note: this will make your task bar disapear and any open folders

    To restart explorer open the task manager agian in the aplications tab hit new task and type explorer in the box

    The colours change because of the Aero theme's poor handling of colours

    Edit:

    You can also make a batch file with the following lines and place it in the same location as your age of empires 2 executable

    taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe

    age2_x1.exe

    Start explorer.exe

    There is now no longer any need for this lame fix.  Here is the REAL fix:

    DirectDrawFix 20111211-005156

    Introduction

    Windows Vista and Windows 7 break color compatibility with

    certain applications that depend upon palette-based, 256-color

    graphics. Due to changes to DirectX and DirectDraw, the colors

    of these applications and games may appear distorted under

    these newer operating systems.

    DirectDrawFix will allow you to resolve this specific issue by

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    Works for ALL older Games.  I also tried the newest version of DirectX as someone suggested.  It id NOT work.  Xomicron did and has worked every time I have used it on someones computer without fail.  Run it ONCE on the game and it is fixed forever.  You do NOT have to disable anything.

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