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This page regards issues and fixes to Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and Age of Empires II: The Conqueror's Expansion. | This page regards issues and fixes to Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and Age of Empires II: The Conqueror's Expansion. | ||
+ | ==System Requirements== | ||
+ | Minimum: | ||
+ | *CPU: 166 MHz | ||
+ | *RAM: 32 MB | ||
+ | *HDD: 300 MB free space | ||
+ | *Video: 2 MB, SuperVGA | ||
+ | *Audio: Sound card, speakers/headphones | ||
+ | *Multiplayer: 28.8 KB/s | ||
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+ | Recommended: | ||
+ | *CPU: Intel Pentium II or AMD Athlon MP | ||
+ | *RAM: 64 MB | ||
+ | *HDD: 300 MB free space | ||
+ | *Video: 16 MB Nvidia TNT2 or 16 MB Rage 128 | ||
==Where to Buy== | ==Where to Buy== | ||
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*Age of Empires II : The Conquerors | *Age of Empires II : The Conquerors | ||
− | Due | + | Due to faulty file management on the DVD-disk, problems can be encountered: |
While playing Age of Empires (and Expansion) the games freezes for a second, every time the background music track changes. | While playing Age of Empires (and Expansion) the games freezes for a second, every time the background music track changes. | ||
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==Mods and User Made Content== | ==Mods and User Made Content== | ||
− | [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Age-of-Empires-II-Forgotten-Empires/124873064294999 | + | [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Age-of-Empires-II-Forgotten-Empires/124873064294999 Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten Empires] |
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+ | ==Links== | ||
+ | [http://www.microsoft.com/games/empires/default.htm Age of Empires Official Microsoft Site; Download Trial Version available] | ||
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+ | [http://www.microsoft.com/games/age2/ Age of Empires II Official Microsoft Site; Download Trial Version available] | ||
+ | [http://ageofempires.wikia.com/wiki/Age_of_Empires_Series_Wiki Wikia for the entire series] | ||
[[Category:Game]] | [[Category:Game]] |
Revision as of 21:48, 10 February 2012
Introduction
This page regards issues and fixes to Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and Age of Empires II: The Conqueror's Expansion.
System Requirements
Minimum:
- CPU: 166 MHz
- RAM: 32 MB
- HDD: 300 MB free space
- Video: 2 MB, SuperVGA
- Audio: Sound card, speakers/headphones
- Multiplayer: 28.8 KB/s
Recommended:
- CPU: Intel Pentium II or AMD Athlon MP
- RAM: 64 MB
- HDD: 300 MB free space
- Video: 16 MB Nvidia TNT2 or 16 MB Rage 128
Where to Buy
Can often still be found on store shelves as "Age of Empires Collector's Editon", which contains the following games on one DVD-disk:
- Age of Empires
- Age of Empires : Rise of Rome Expansion
- Age of Empires II : Age of Kings
- Age of Empires II : The Conquerors
Due to faulty file management on the DVD-disk, problems can be encountered:
While playing Age of Empires (and Expansion) the games freezes for a second, every time the background music track changes. Disabling the music via settings is the only solution.
While playing Age of Empires II (and Expansion) the background music is completely missing.
Windows 7 Compatibility
Issue: The colors, in game, look odd
Problem: The color within the game tends to look noisy, overly saturated, pixelated, and overall odd. Diagnosis: The Windows 7 explorer (explorer.exe) has a lot of new features for display, and particularly color display changes. Think of the new transparent windows aero, and the features for adjusting window theme colors. The new explorer has a conflict with the graphic display of the game. Solution:
- Open Age of Empires II
- Alt-Tab out of the game
- Turn off explorer.exe
- open task manager (ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+shift+esc)
- go to "processes" tab
- find "explorer.exe" in the "image name" column
- select "explorer.exe" and hit "end process"
- (Play Game without color issue)
- (finish playing game)
- Restore explorer.exe
- open task manager (ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+shift+esc)
- in the top left, on the menu bar, click "File" and "New Task (Run...)"
- The "Create New Task" window will pop up
- enter "explorer.exe" in the open:[textbox]
- click "ok" button
This process can be automated with a batch file. Save this text into a file named "AgeFix.bat"
REM -AgeFix.bat taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe age2_x1.exe start explorer.exe
Store the batch file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\age2_x1 . Run the bat file to run the game.
Network Issues
Patches
Age of Empires II : Age of Kings
Age of Empires II : The Conquerors
User-Patches
UserPatch v1.1 by xomicron ; February 9, 2010
Mods and User Made Content
Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten Empires
Links
Age of Empires Official Microsoft Site; Download Trial Version available
Age of Empires II Official Microsoft Site; Download Trial Version available