Age of Empires 2 on Windows 7 has color issues

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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

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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2009-05-15T19:22:11+00:00

Frozzare,

Try minimizing the game with Windows + M and then maximizing it again. It's not a perfect fix, but Wikipedia seems to think that it'll work okay.

This forum post (http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/2790-age-empires-2-aoc-expansion.html) reports that fix only working under Vista, and not W7, however.

Alternately, you could use a little app called D3D Windower (available here: http://www.brothersoft.com/d3dwindower-238977.html), which runs all fullscreen DirectX apps with software emulation. It's been great for playing X-Com under Windows XP and newer (including Windows 7), so I imagine it might help you out here!
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