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.

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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
    2010-01-14T00:14:42+00:00

    In the notepad, copy and paste the following lines into the notepad:

    taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exeage2_x1.exeStart explorer.exe

    Go to File --> Save As

    File Name: age2.bat

    Save as type: All Files (VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SELECT THIS, OR IT WILL BE SAVED AS A TEXT FILE)

    Place the file in this directory:

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\age2_x1

    I've already made this procedure a thousand times. I save the text file in the same directory as the age2_x1.exe with extension .bat but it never kills the explorer.exe!! Am I supposed to type something else? Do I need to leave a blank line before/after these command lines?

    I killed explorer.exe manually and it worked just fine, but this .bat file doesnt work!! Please give me some light here!

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-01-30T05:42:26+00:00

    thanks for the bat file idea, worked a treat!

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-02-03T16:06:42+00:00

    We just simply got bananasofted by MS again :-)

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-06T04:56:17+00:00

    Thanks from me as well - working perfectly with AoE 1

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