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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.
I have the exact same problem! everything loads and works fine! the building, people and sand look fine, but do you find the water looks purple and red in the grass? have you found a way to fix it yet?? if you have Could you help me please?? :)
Hello Microsoft and Windows users.
My problem with AOE 2 is very similar to what many others have experienced here, just that none of the suggested ways of fixing it works, I mean NONE!
I have tried everything in this thread except a few links and Virtual PC but it just wont work. WHY?! I love this game, when I had XP it worked like a dream, the CD has barely any marks at all but now it doesn't work.
What happens is that the loading screen comes up and I hear this weird sound from my CD/DVD reader and then it closes and nothing more happens. That's it.
At the beginning of 2011 this game worked fine on windows 7, I just installed it and I could play it instantly. Then after a month or so I needed to run as administrator, then as administrator and in compatability mode with XP service pack 3 selected. This went on for a couple of months then it just stopped working completely and I gave up, but now I want it to work because I want to play it! I did have some colour issues with grass and water but I didn't really care, I was just happy that it worked on the new 64-bit OS at all, but now it doesn't.
I am fashinated how one game seems to require a unique way to fix this problem on every single PC with the same OS. It's so weird.
Any help? Microsoft wouldn't release a speciall compatability patch just for us AOE 2 users would they?
I might add that AOE 1 works perfectly and it has even less colour problems than what AOE 2 had when it still worked.
I'd really appreciate some pro tips or some help from one of you Microsoft workers who knows the OS inside out (So to speak) as nothing have yet to work (Actually I have tried more than what's in this thread, I tried lots of different combinations of what I've read here and some testing on my own, nothing works so far). :,(
Regards.
//MrBCC
Hey, I tried that and it does not work for me,
What Directx version do you have and what is your screen resolution?
Hey, I have the same sort of problem I have tried everything from screen resolution to compatibility settings.
It is really frustrating and I wish I could help.
