General information
- Official Age of Empires series site
- Microsoft's Official game page (archived)
- Age of Empires Wiki - A wiki for everything Age of Empires related
- Planet Age of Empires - A hub for all Age of Empires games
- Age of Empires Heaven is an active fan website and forum that offers support and extra game content.
Availability
Demos
DLC and expansion packs
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Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome |
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Essential improvements
Patches
- This patch updates both Age of Empires (to 1.0c) and The Rise of Rome (to 1.0a): English, German, and French or Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
- Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome 1.0a suffers from a serious bug in saved games. If a projectile (arrow from archers, ships, towers, siege weapons) is "flying" through the air while saving a game, the saved game becomes corrupted; loading it will crash the game.
- Unofficial patch that contains many bug fixes and improvements for newer systems here
- Fixes the color problem caused in newer systems
- Requires The Rise of Rome expansion
An unofficial patch made by the AoE Heaven which fixes a lot of bugs, enhances the gameplay, adds a HD resolution and balance change for each civilization.
Skip intro videos
Use the NoStartup
command line argument.[1]
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
- Campaign progress is stored in
<path-to-game>\game0.nfo
- Custom scenarios are stored in
<path-to-game>\scenario
- Custom campaigns are stored in
<path-to-game>\campaign
- You will need to backup all of the above files and folders to have all of your player data and progress.
Video settings
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Input settings
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Audio settings
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Localizations
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Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Ports
Protocol |
Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
TCP |
2300-2400, 47624 |
UDP |
6073, 2300-2400 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues fixed
Game uses weird colors
Playing the game on a modern version of Windows may cause it to use weird colors. Repetitive red and purple specks in water and marsh areas are the common issue. This can be fixed by downloading and using DirectDrawFix.
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
DirectDraw |
5 |
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Executable | PPC | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Multiplayer |
MSN Gaming Zone |
Discontinued.[citation needed] |
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95, NT |
98, 2000, ME |
Processor (CPU) |
Pentium 90 or higher | |
System memory (RAM) |
16 MB |
32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
80 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Local SVGA bus video display 1 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible | |
References