Age of Empires
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General information
- Age of Empires Heaven is an active fan website and forum that offers support and extra game content.
Availability
Improvements
Patches
Age of Empires patch 1.0c
The latest patch for Age of Empires is 1.0c.
- This file is the same one as Rise of Rome patch 1.0a; downloading one of them will update both games.
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome patch 1.0a
The latest patch for Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome is 1.0a.
- Age of Empires: 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.
Skip introduction videos
The introduction videos can be skipped by adding a space and NoStartup
to the end of the game's shortcut.[1]
Game data
Save game location
- You will need to backup all of the above files and folders to have all of your player data and progress.
- Game settings such as resolution, audio volumes, and game play speed are stored in the registry instead of a config file.
Save game cloud syncing
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Video settings
Input settings
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.
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Age of Empires on 64 bit systems
Due to the way that 64 bit machines run the programs both Age of Empires and Rise of Rome won't work on systems running 64 bit versions of windows.
The reason for this is that Age of Empires is running 16 bit code and the 64 bit operating systems are backwards compatible to to 32 bit code only. Even putting the game into compatibility for windows xp you still get errors
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File:Aoex launch error.PNG
However if you are running premium version of windows 7 you can download "windows xp mode" from here. If you are running a different version of windows (on a 64 bit) you can download a virtual machine (I recommend Oracle Virtualbox) and your own iso (you can obtain windows xp isos from microsoft). Once you have the VHD set up on Virtualbox you will need to tell the virtual machine to use the disk drive that has the game on Installing games onto Virtual Machines
System requirements
References
- ↑ Available from the game's readme file; alternatively viewable at http://aoe.heavengames.com/academy/hotkeysandcommands/cmdline.shtml