How to install DirectPlay?

All i found on the internet is:

controlpanel -> turn windows features on or off -> Legacy Components, tik DirectPlay and click ok. restart your System.

But the issue is i don't have the "Legacy Components" or "DirectPlay" in the " turn windows features on or off" window. My directx version is 11. My gpu supports up to 10.1 i think (gt335m).

Why do i need direct play? I wanted to play Aoe1 on Voobly but it gives me DirectPlay error and tells me to reinstall the OS to fix it? I don't think reinstalling the os from the same source will help me at all.

win7 sp1 64bit

thank you

Apparently this could happen on 64-bit. Some older games don't play well on 64-bit. You might see this thread. DirectX on Windows 7 - older game - Super User

loserloserloser said:

Thank you for replies



So according to Suma in that thread, having a 64bit Windows 7 is the issue? well that's a bummer. thanks again!

Oh game runs fine btw. I needed DirectPlay to be able to play online with Voobly, a third party program for multiplayer. Voobly needs DirectPlay for multiplayer to work for AoE1.

Technically the issue is having a 32-bit program on a 64-bit system when the program doesn't know how to operate on a 64-bit OS. Architecturally a 64-bit system is significantly different from a 32-bit one. Consider this. That game was released in '97. Windows 98 wasn't even out yet and the first 64-bit version of Windows was XP released in 2001. Even then it wasn't used very much. Vista was the first moderately used 64-bit version of Windows and 7 the first widely used version.