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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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Pity the syste compatibility report forgot to let us know about this before commencing. I have the genuine Microsoft version of AOM Gold, already installed on the machine that was upgraded ... Just knowing it was incompatible would have been a start. Luckily i got to the root cause quickly so no time wasted.
Ok, yes this is correct. Safedisc is not supported on Windows 10.
Options:
* Buy a digital version of the game that doesn't have safedisc (steam has Age of Mythology - Extended Edition, which I've played on Windows 10. Although I won't make a promise it will work on everyone's system)
* See if Macrovision has a download for secdrv.sys. I haven't seen or tried this but it is an idea.
Check with Event Viewer, but I guess you are having the same problem as myself and a number of others.
It's the fact that Windows 10 doesn't come with SECDRV.SYS driver, and the one that comes with the game is a 32-bit driver that isn't signed and won't work. This driver is part of the copy protection mechanism on AOM and other games.
The driver was provided with Win 8.1 64 bit, which is why it worked on that platform.
Which all together means that AOM (and other games that use the same copy protection technology) can't work on Windows 10 until Microsoft provide a compatible driver.
To the best of my knowledge, there is as yet no statement as to whether it will ever be supported ...
