Age of Mythology - Windows 10

Anonymous
2015-08-03T13:11:37+00:00

I recently purchased a custom built pc packed with windows 8.1 which I upgraded to Windows 10.

I installed Age of Mythology yesterday and when I try to run the game nothing happens. I have tried all compatibility suggestions and I get the same result.

I also have this same problem with black and white 2.

I have a NVIDIA Geforce gtx 980 graphics card installed in my pc.

Can you provide any suggestions please.

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-04T18:30:35+00:00

    Wine in linux plays Windows games but without sufficient hardware, performance suffers. My main squeeze is an UBUNTU box but doesn't have the nads to virtualize a flight sim.

    The whole security thing reminds of ancient Athens giving up her beauty for security. Of course, we can blame the Spartans.

    CAELinux for research and development

    QOS4 for an XP look-a-like.

    Mint for a lightweight Linux

    Knoppix for a live USB stick w/ persistent memory (UNIONFS)

    Drivers are a concern.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-17T12:01:10+00:00

    I haven't read all of the posts on this thread, but Win10's  malware  - AKA DRM Blocking has been mentioned in some posts.

    • Note that this only applies to the disk based version of games that use  SafeDisk.

    Download versions do not have the DRM Blocking issue.

    DRM Blocking is my pet hate with Win10, so if interested, read my rant, with options to circumvent

    this malware   ---here---

    • Since the advent of DRM Blocking on Win10 MS has also subversively installed their special malware

    'feature' on to Win7/8/8.1 via  Windows security updates.

    [ If AOM does use SafeDick you can find an AOM noCD fix   - here - age-mythology  .  This is a simple executable replacer.

    • Open the games install folder and move the aom.exe to a new folder that you create (as backup).
    • Extract the aom.exe file from the download zip folder and move the aom.exe to the location the original

    file was in. The .nfo file that comes with the noCD fix is not required. You can delete it.

    • Download the fix that suits the version you have the game patched to. ]

    [EDIT:  Note that re-released disk based versions of this game may have had the DRM removed, or changed.

    This is fairly common with re-released games, particularly those that include expansion packs, such as the one

    being used by Westfalen ( post on page 10 ). ]

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-17T11:42:07+00:00

    Now I am in a stress - and Microsoft is in a stress.

    If AOM isn't working by December 31,

    I will surely NOT install Windows 10! :-(

    Why the same company (Microsoft)

    doesn't support their own game?!!

     - Its a shame.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-14T15:46:54+00:00

    It worked for me

    Run the installation file with admin rights

    it will ask for install Direct Play

    then its done after the restart

    next is to set the graphics settings for the game in game settings .

    take care

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