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
    2011-04-25T16:01:40+00:00

    Thanks, Amakuni, the batch file idea works.

    For those who need further instructions on how to do this:

    1. Open Notepad and copy over the following three lines:

    taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe

    age2_x1.exe

    Start explorer.exe

    Make sure there are no spaces at the start of any lines, or at the end.

    2. Save the file as 'Run.bat' (no quotes, you can change the name to what you want if you want).

    3. Move the file to the location of the game executable (usually somewhere like C:\Program Files\Age of Empires).

    4. Run the file you just made and it should work. After you exit the game, it should return Windows to normal.

    This solution was Amakuni's, not mine!

    Rifdhan

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-05-02T09:15:27+00:00

    I tried everything in this forum exept the bat file. What should the file be saved as?

    thanks

    Alex

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-05-05T13:03:57+00:00

    If you have an ati card disable morphological filtering in the catalyst's 3d application settings  worked for me

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