Age of Empires 2: AoC expansion

all in all, the microsoft game series AoE doesn't easily work with microsoft's new OS. gay indeed. some ppl have luck, i've been S.O.L. and just play on my girl's laptop (w7 32bit). thanks microsoft
 

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No offense but I have 20/20 vision and I can't even read what code you placed inside that batch file on the video...

Why don't you upload the batch file here so people can just use it
 

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Anarchitect said:
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!
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I'm not sure if someone has answered your question, but what I do is open the game, then whilst in the game press Alt and Tab, then disable explorer.exe from the task manager, then Alt and Tab again to return into the game, and you should have the correct graphics and colour. I believe the reason for this is the compatibility issues with Aero. Let me know if this works.
 

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morfeu said:
I searched in whole Internet for a solution and I found one :p

Go into task manager select the processes tab and end explorer.exe then alt-tab back into age of empires
Note: this will make your task bar disapear and any open folders
To restart explorer open the task manager agian in the aplications tab hit new task and type explorer in the box
The colours change because of the Aero theme's poor handling of colours


Edit:
You can also make a batch file with the following lines and place it in the same location as your age of empires 2 executable

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1.exe
Start explorer.exe
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Thanks a lot. Of all the solutions posted here, this is the only one that works.
 

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didnt work for me. the resolution is still messed up, i've tried everything to fix it but nothing worked. the in-game screen is running out the monitor, you can't see the list at the very top. i tried changing all 3 resolution settings in game, tried changing resolution out of game, nothing. nothing at all. i think it would work if i could get my screen to show 4:3. any ideas?
 

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I have Age of Empires 3. 2 doesn't work for me.
 

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I have been able to play AOE2 with no problems.

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Dual Wide Screen w/DVI

Color Fix:
1) Right Click
the Shortcut
2) Click Properties
3) Click Compatibility tab
4) Check the "Run in 256 colors"
*Do not select "Run this program in compatibility mode"
5) Click "OK"

Lan Mode Fix:
6) Access your router management interface
7) Navigate to your Port Forwarding Page
8) Disable UPnP
9) Save

10) Launch the Game and have fun!
*Note the game can take up to 2 minutes to load, but plays well.
**Colors are distorted for a few seconds but clears up
***Water colors are still slightly messed up, but for the most part is very playable.
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This works for LAN play. Give it a minute to warm up, and then it is great.

THANK YOU.
 

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taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1.exe
Start explorer.exe
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Mixali, you're awesome! That worked perfectly and still works.
 

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taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1.exe
Start explorer.exe
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I hate to show my ignorance, but if I make a .bat file with this in it, what do I name the .bat file? If I put it in the same folder as the .exe file, what will make the batch file run?
 

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Can no one answer this seemingly simple question?
 

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You can name it whatever you want as long as the extension is .bat

You run it by the good ol' double-click method. :)
 

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Thank you profdlp, I'm sorry I'm not as expert at this stuff as many. I was under the impression that AoE would run this file somehow, but I guess that is backwards. Appreciate your time to answer.
 

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I chased this issue a long time and found lots of quick fixes that work for some but not others. Then I found this guys blog and all is well. He explains why the video problem exists and discusses the various ways to work around it. The best solution is the program he wrote and shares.
His blog is long but worth reading.
Bed Against The Wall: aoe2
 

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That is an excellent read, RHW1225. :)
 

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Agreed :)

This is presumably something M$ could fix if they wanted to.

I'm finding the TaskKill BAT file method to work perfectly OK at the moment.
 

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Thanks for posting that link!
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AOE II TC color FIX

Hi all,
I have written an application "AOE II TC color FIX", which helps you with color issue on AOE 2 The Conquerors. The application can run at the windows backgroung and "watches" in process list, if age2_x1.exe has started. If so, the application AUTOMATICALLY suspends or kills (depends on method you choose) the explorer and relieves it back, when AOC is closed. Test it!

Looking forward for your tests and replies :)

Download: http://www.ulozto.own.cz/./files/cb93a74cfe1691dbd7e343d1dfbdcaba.zip

enjoy

de Bill

P.S.: Virus FREE :-D
 

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