Age of Empires 2: AoC expansion

Anarchitect · 24 Jan 2009

Hi guys,

I installed W7 and so far it's been working fine. However, I ran into a problem. When I try to play my AoE 2: the Conquerors expansion, everything works. When I start a game, some of the graphics (trees, grass and water) seem highly corrupted (mostly they're much to 'red'). When I put the resolution on 800x600, it works. When I try 1024x768, I get the weird corruption.
I tried most of the compatibility modes (XP, W2000, W98, all with different combinations of DPI/Visual Themes/256 colors etcetera). Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks in advance!

Mark · 24 Jan 2009

Have you tried updating your display drivers?

Anarchitect · 24 Jan 2009

I have now, but to no avail. Any other ideas?

Mark · 24 Jan 2009

Have you updated your Direct X with latest from Microsoft, which is November I believe.

Anarchitect · 24 Jan 2009

Yup, I got DirectX off the website, but it doesn't seem to help... Most of the graphics are perfectly okay, it's just a few sprites. However, when the mouse turns into the turning circle (you know, when it's processing), I can see that it's not really 'blending in', there's a bit of black around the circle. I think it's probably the same problem. The parts that look bad look like they're old .gif images.

Mark · 24 Jan 2009

What are your system specs?

Anarchitect · 24 Jan 2009

I'm running an Acer Aspire 5520 Laptop, with an AMD 64 X2 TL-58 1,9GHz, GeForce 8600M GS 512MB, 3 gigs of ram. I believe those are the important parts, but I might've forgotten some.
Cheers!

Mark · 24 Jan 2009

Have you installed all your chipset drivers for your motherboard, also have you tried playing the game in compatibility mode for XP?

Anarchitect · 24 Jan 2009

Yes, I have.

64fanatic · 24 Jan 2009

Make sure you're using the windows update drivers for nvidia cards, the later ones for vista though they may say they have windows 7 drivers break a lot of games.

Anyhow the corrupted colors, just alt-tab and then maximize again, worked for me back in the windows 98 days when that happened to me :P