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

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

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-06-22T22:13:00+00:00

    You only have to change your color setting to "high color (16 bit)" in your advanced screen solution settings ;) (in the tab "monitor")

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-07-19T10:05:58+00:00

    it was a perfect solution man good work

    thank you

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-07-21T03:55:30+00:00

    I tried this and it worked perfectly. Now I just don't know how to set it up to go back to normal if I ALT+Tab out of AOE or something like that.  Thanks.

    I have made another tool called "AOE2 Launcher for Win7 1.0".

    When you click alt+tab, you can call back the Taskbar.

    And it is more convenient, because it no need to click so much thing before you start the game.

    Visit http://louislam.coms.hk/aoe2-launcher-for-win7.html

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-07-29T05:12:41+00:00

    why is AOE TC is closed on me when i use bat or the other program? it just said aoe tc is stop working and just closed it out. plez some help becuz this is my fav game i love than AOE 2 i get it work for now

    again thanx

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