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
    2012-06-17T12:12:54+00:00

    UPDATE: I just tried the Xomicron fix & it worked on Conquerors and Kings with ORIGINAL exe game files.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-05-23T05:17:55+00:00

    Thanks a lot again for the latest update AntonSynytsia. Im an AOE 2 Fan and I cannot give up one of the best Strategy games of the history so easily.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-05-23T02:59:27+00:00

    By the way rightnow Xomicron company is creating a new patch 1.1 for the conquerors. Better computer players, most fixed bugs, and even different screen resolutions, such as wide screen. Its still hasn't been fully finished, but it can be downloaded just to see the progress.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-05-23T02:47:35+00:00

    Thank you so much AntonSynytsia. I downloaded the Software and did the patching well. Now the colour problem has been solved on my Windows 7 and it deserves a big thank you for the comment and for the company who created this piece of magic.

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