Age of Mythology - Windows 10

Sayan,

You don't get the problem.  Microsoft removed support for the Macrovision SECDRV.SYS in going from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.  (See http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/secdrvsys-not-loading-in-windows-10-this-will/65a6fe83-08df-4760-b2ad-6b1ce61d40d4?page=3)

The further issue is that there was no warning that Microsoft was going to disable all legally purchased, installed and activated games that require SecureDisk DRM authorization to play.

Additional issues:

1. Microsoft does not post a clear error message stating that it will not support SecureDisk based games in Windows 10 when the user attempts to run it, leaving the user with an apparently obscure bug when in fact it is an intentional downgrade of Windows compatibility.
2. Microsoft's refusal to fix the problem or comment on the problem is leading user who have such games to believe that it was done purposely to get them to buy new games from the Microsoft App Store, but this belief will actually incentivize them to NOT purchase games from Microsoft.
3. Other than non-support for the SecureDisk driver, there are no compatibility issues with these games and Windows 10.

So the PROPER ANSWER from a Microsoft representative should not be a clearly inappropriate run-around involving start-up settings and boot configs that DO NOT address the problem in any way.  Rather it should be a straight-forward admission of either a gross oversight that Microsoft intends to fix right away, or to confirm their cavalier "F U" attitude toward the users they intentionally burned with the Windows 10 update.

I was a lucky one and upgraded from 7, I have now rolled back and unless many improvements are made to 10 I will stick with 7.

So... Just finished talking to Answer Desk and apparently there is no solution but rolling back to our previous version of Windows if want to keep playing the game, as the "solutions" pointed out to us don't work and I was informed that NO ONE is trying to fix the problem.

So in addition to a few other bugs and things that honestly don't work so well, like having no actual cloud service with OneDrive (just backup of your files and synch them between your devices), a few diminuished items on the personalised look of the PC... well... I'm a bit done with Windows 10. Unless a lot is fixed, I'm out for good.

Not that 8.1 is my favorite, I still preferred 7, but I guess with all this, I'm definitely rolling back.

Hope that in the meanwhile adjustments are made to make some features at least as good as the previous version, 'cause otherwise it's not much of an upgrade, is it? The best thing I've seen so far in 10 is Windows explorer back and the startup menu back.

My regards...

Hi everybody !

One of my PC is a dual-boot XP-32/W7-64. A few months ago I was ready to kill my XP. fact is that I rarely used it last year.

Reading your messages, I now know for sure that my XP will still live a long life !

Replying to you since you look frustrated. Compatibility issues are always a problem, games, software, tools.. whatever. You need to by pass the protection of the game.. get a cracked EXE.. you own the disc so its not like you are breaking the law. Use Google to help your self out.

Yes this is not ideal... but you are trying to play a 10+ year old game on brand new software.

Good Luck buddy!

I eventually had to go down the route of downloading a no cd cracking which I was really hoping to avoid for obvious reasons. 

I had tried all other possibilities suggested by people on this thread along with also trying to test sign the secdrv driver with no success (Windows 10 blocks the test signature).

Thanks for this suggestion by I would still appreciate some support from Microsoft providing a viable solution to this to avoid people potentially opening themselves up to mallard issues that might be packed in no cd cracks.