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I have been unable to get Age of Empires II to work on my laptop - first with Vista and now with Windows 7.
It installs OK and when you go to launch it the small graphic launch box comes up, then the screen goes phsychedelic before reverting back to normal and nothing more happens.
It is a Compaq Presario with a Mobile Intel R45 chipset.
Any advice?
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RusFry,
If you were not able to get the game to run in this same PC with Vista or Windows 7, then it appears that there is a hardware conflict with this game. I see that this game was for older systems and only supports 800x600 graphics. You may want to turn your desktop resolution down to 800x600 with 256 colors, then launch the game. If this doesn't help then you may want to install DirectX 9 and see if that helps.
ok heres something easy to get it running.... first download "FinalTorrent" , then go to the piratebay.org and search for any game you want, then download the torrent and when finished it will ask you to install it... install it like you would before, and then play and enjoy........ also anyone can use this way, you dont need to buy games when its on there...... PS look for a file of your game of choice the has the key gen applied..... your welcome everyone
-Gamer Volkey669
why is this marked as an answer, when it is not.
Hey guys, I had this problem last night and was so pissed! I started the game and got the splash screen and I left my desk, made some dinner (15 minutes) came back and there was the EULA msg, letting me get by. I would suggest doing this atleast once. A good solid 15 minutes of letting it sit at the splash screen and doing nothing else on the computer (get up and do something) and see if that works. I hope it works like it did for me. If, and you probably will, you run into the color looking terrible when you actually get into the game do the following:
Go to this thread http://www.voobly.com/forum/thread/5573 and follow the advice at the very bottom of the page about adding a registery entry. This worked for me. Involves no programs, no closing explorer and restarting explorer. Adding this to your registry and you can play with no color issues and you can alt tab out of the game during play and back in again with no issues. At least no issues I for me so far.
