Aoe2 not working on windows 7

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Sign in to vote. Thursday, March 25, AM. Have you tried compatability mode to see if it will run? Also, you can refer to this thread: Age of Empires 2 [compatibility issue s ]. Friday, March 26, AM. Microsoft game Then I start game, after five to ten second just kick my out. Go to Compatibility mod and nothing. I have Win 7 64b.

Ordinary Age of Empires II work normaly! Monday, November 29, AM. I had the same Problem till I found a fix it on another forum, launch the game , then go to options and try reducing the resolution on your aoc to X and mine started working. Killing the "explorer" task in task manager while the game is running fixes that. My new problem is that I am unable to host a network game on Windows 7. I've done some packet sniffing and I think it has to do with Directplay Server not working properly.

At work we all use Windows 7 so playing after hours is not possible because we don't have an XP machine to host the game. Regards, Joey. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. In compatibility options, have you tried the other tick boxes?

Some of them can be helpful in getting older systems to run, it's worth trying with each of those. If that doesn't help, try disabling the Aero theme entirely by switching to Windows basic temporarily, to see if that helps as sometimes Aero can cause problems with older games. I switched the theme from aero to basic and both games worked first time without resorting to compatibilty modes. Does this mean that i cant personlaise my desktop if i want to run the games?

One issue i have with running the games in windows 7 is the graphics which in AOE2 particularly are not as they should be. Are there any further settings that can be changed to put this right? Quote from: richardf77 on July 17, , AM. What this means is it get's to choose colours fro a larger set and then use those. The issue is that, with windows and colours, colour modes work by way of asking applications what colours they need.

Applications can then say to windows "Well, I would like these colours, but at the very least, I need these ones" and Windows will do it's best to preserve the palette colours for all applications. Normally, since it 's a full-screen, foreground application, this has no issue, because nothing else is usually holding colours hostage in the palette.

Windows 7 and Windows Vista as well I believe, however, do. There are some palette colours that Windows Explorer eg. The solution for windows Vista and 7 is to kill explorer. I personally use a batch file: Code: [Select]. I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool. Ah, that makes a lot of sense BC, thanks for the info.

I'd heard of killing explorer being a workaround, but I wasn't sure of the reason. Do you know if StarCraft would also have the same bug, or not?