Age of Empires II does not work with Vista or Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-11-24T16:43:16+00:00

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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Anonymous
2009-12-02T14:15:24+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-01-14T03:40:34+00:00

    I'm having Win7 issues with AOE2 but with multiplayer LAN connectivity.  Here are the steps to recreate the issue:

    1. Create new AOE2 multiplayer game hosted on WinXP machine
    2. Open AOE2 on Win7 machine and view multiplayer games available
    3. As expected, the game I just created on WinXP machine shows up on Win7 machine under LAN TCP/IP connections
    4. Try to connect to hosted game from Win7 machine
    5. AOE2 says connecting to multiplayer game and it eventually times out after ~30-45 seconds and says "unable to join"

    I've disabled all security features on both machines, opened up ports on router, run AOE2 as administrator in WinXP compatibility mode, etc... and nothing seems to work.

    Any ideas?   has anyone else experienced this on Win7?  very strange.   I can play between WinXP machines just fine.

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-12-28T04:39:49+00:00

    This didn't work at all.  I've tried so many things from different forums and nothing works.  I installed DirectX9.  I even changed my display driver to the base system driver.  I've tried running AOE2 in all the Vista compatibility modes.  Nothing works.  This is extremely frustrating.

    I believe this is happened because we are running Age Of Empires on Win 7, nothing problem with the hardwares. Because this is works when I am using on XP.

    I guess Win 7 has this issue in all older games..The weird things is that why does Microsoft published a statement in the microsoft.com website that Age Of Empires II works on Win 7

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-12-26T16:16:25+00:00

    This didn't work at all.  I've tried so many things from different forums and nothing works.  I installed DirectX9.  I even changed my display driver to the base system driver.  I've tried running AOE2 in all the Vista compatibility modes.  Nothing works.  This is extremely frustrating.

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-11-25T10:58:39+00:00

    Hi Bharath,

    Thanks for this.

    I tried everything you said, but no joy - same result as before.

    Regards

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