AOE 2 does not want to play on my W7


  1. Posts : 3
    w7
       #1

    AOE 2 does not want to play on my W7


    Hi,

    I got new computer, and wanted to have few games on it. I installed Civ 4 , no problem. AOE 2 shows only flash screen, and stops. Flash screen is gone, and like nothing happened. Tried another clean install, and it is same. Any ideas?
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #2

    igormis said:
    Hi,

    I got new computer, and wanted to have few games on it. I installed Civ 4 , no problem. AOE 2 shows only flash screen, and stops. Flash screen is gone, and like nothing happened. Tried another clean install, and it is same. Any ideas?
    Hi and welcome

    Thanks for filling in your specs. Give us needed info.

    Have you upgrade you video driver, and directx?

    There are several places we can go to diagnose the problem

    First type device manager in search. go to the display tab. Is your video listed? does it have a yellow triangle on it?

    Are there any other "unknown" devices that have yellow on them?

    Let us Know

    Ken
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  3. Posts : 3
    w7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    If by video you mean Display adapters, than yes. and there are unknown devices(pci serila port, and pci simple communications sontroller). imaging devices (lexmark x422) has yellow triangle too.
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  4. Posts : 169
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #4

    Try getting another copy of aoe2, mine is working fine on both windows 7 x32 and x64.
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  5. Posts : 54
    Windows 7 Professional x64
       #5

    you may have already tried what im about to say but if i was in your shoes i would:

    check that all my drivers are up to date and the latest ones for W7.

    patch the game to latest version, i know this doesnt help on the W7 funny colours problem but still, its worth doing.

    Close all unneeded applications

    run the game

    if still black screen post back here so we know

    if you do get into the game, you might want to track down the thread about AoE2 colours being weird, thats another problem then, but we know how to solve that one.
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  6. Posts : 3
    w7
    Thread Starter
       #6

    yeah, i updated everything, and game is brand new. still nothing.
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  7. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #7

    The same thing happened to me with the same screen resolution.

    I solved it by running AOE2 in windowed mode using a modified dll.

    Check out posts 27, 28 and 29 here: Age of Empires 2: AoC expansion
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