age of empires not working

[AgeOfEmpires]

Hi , After i installed all three disks i went on to play the game and all of a sudden the the game was unable to load up.In the bottom right corner of the screen a blue box comes up saying my graphics have automatically changed to window 7 basic but then still didnt work :S ,

any help please to why its not working and what i can do to make it work again

 

[Trinty]

Hi , After i installed all three disks i went on to play the game and all of a sudden the the game was unable to load up.In the bottom right corner of the screen a blue box comes up saying my graphics have automatically changed to window 7 basic but then still didnt work :S ,

any help please to why its not working and what i can do to make it work again

Hello and welcome to SF forums...

Try this :

For advanced users :
1. Enter Task Manager
2. Click tab Process
3. Find Age of Empries process and terminate it.
4. Start game again.
If that dont work do stet 1,2 and 3 again and
1. Go to game folder where you installed this : for example C:\Program Files\Age of Empires\
2. Run game from this folder.
For standard users :
1. Run it normally.
2. If it dosent work , restart your computer.
3. Go to game folder where you installed this : for example C:\Program Files\Age of Empires\
4. Run game from this folder.

I had same problem with my GTA:SA. I fixed with this.

Trinty.

 

[AgeOfEmpires]

Hi , After i installed all three disks i went on to play the game and all of a sudden the the game was unable to load up.In the bottom right corner of the screen a blue box comes up saying my graphics have automatically changed to window 7 basic but then still didnt work :S ,

any help please to why its not working and what i can do to make it work again

Hello and welcome to SF forums...

Try this :

For advanced users :
1. Enter Task Manager
2. Click tab Process
3. Find Age of Empries process and terminate it.
4. Start game again.
If that dont work do stet 1,2 and 3 again and
1. Go to game folder where you installed this : for example C:\Program Files\Age of Empires\
2. Run game from this folder.
For standard users :
1. Run it normally.
2. If it dosent work , restart your computer.
3. Go to game folder where you installed this : for example C:\Program Files\Age of Empires\
4. Run game from this folder.

I had same problem with my GTA:SA. I fixed with this.

Trinty.

when i go to tab process , the programme is automatically terminated and i have just got a message saying binkw32.dll is missing , what does this mean

 

[AgeOfEmpires]

when i go to tab process , the programme is automatically terminated and i have just got a message saying binkw32.dll is missing , what does this mean

 

[gladson1976]

Try this link from Microsoft Support
You receive an error message stating that Binkw32.dll or Mss32.dll is missing or failed to load when you try to start Age of Empires III or Dungeon Siege II

 

[AgeOfEmpires]

cheers for the link however i go to extract the bink and says access denied ?