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| + | ==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 | ||
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| + | The DVD re-release of these games do not feature the red-book audio stored as separate audio tracks on the original games' discs. As such, the game music will not be played while the DVD is in the drive. | ||
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| + | ==Patches== | ||
| + | Age of Empires II : Age of Kings | ||
| + | * [http://www.microsoft.com/games/age2/downloads.htm 2.0a; August 32, 2000] | ||
| + | Age of Empires II : The Conquerors | ||
| + | * [http://www.microsoft.com/games/conquerors/downloads.aspx?f1=no 1.0c; 2001] | ||
| + | Age of Empires II Widescreen Patch | ||
| + | * [http://www.boekabart.net/page/Age+of+Empires+2 Here] | ||
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| + | ==Community Patches== | ||
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| + | [http://www.xomicron.com/software/userpatch/ UserPatch v1.1 by xomicron ; February 9, 2010] | ||
| + | http://widescreengamingforum.com/node/12090 Age of empires HD Mod; Up to 1080p ;Janurary 15, 2010] | ||
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| + | ==Mods and User Made Content== | ||
| + | [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Age-of-Empires-II-Forgotten-Empires/124873064294999 Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten Empires] | ||
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Revision as of 12:01, 24 February 2012
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
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
The DVD re-release of these games do not feature the red-book audio stored as separate audio tracks on the original games' discs. As such, the game music will not be played while the DVD is in the drive.
Patches
Age of Empires II : Age of Kings
Age of Empires II : The Conquerors
Age of Empires II Widescreen Patch
Community Patches
UserPatch v1.1 by xomicron ; February 9, 2010 http://widescreengamingforum.com/node/12090 Age of empires HD Mod; Up to 1080p ;Janurary 15, 2010]
Mods and User Made Content
Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten Empires
Save Games
Save Game Location
\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\SaveGame\
\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Campaign\
\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Scenario\
\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Player.nfo
You will need to backup all of the above folders and the .nfo file to have all of your player data and progress.
Save Game Cloud Syncing
- Dropbox: Yes
- Windows Live Mesh 2011: Yes
- GameSave Manager: No
Windows 7 Compatibility
Ingame color looks odd
See Also: Colors Fixes
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.
Dell laptop compatibility issues
On some older Dell laptop models (e.g. the M1530) an issue occurs where the OS crashes and a blue-screen of death is displayed. This issue occurs after a seemingly random amount of gameplay time (from <30 seconds to 10 or 20 minutes). Many things have been tried to fix the issue including changing graphics card drivers, limiting the framerate to mitigate overheating and running on virtual machines of different OSs (e.g. windows 98). As far as can be seen, this issue has never been resolved nor will it be, rendering AoE2 unplayable on the affected models of laptop.
Network Issues
--Lan connectivity with Windows 7-- Setting the IP address to Static and the Default Gateway to nothing allows 2 Windows 7 64 pcs to LAN. This can be done via Control Panel - View Network Status and Tasks (under Network and Internet) - click Local Arean connection next to "connections:" then Properties, highlight "Internet protocol version 4", click properties. Check "Use the following ip address". Use an address not in use on your network (such as 192.168.1.[1-253] eg 192.168.1.11 ) mask 255.255.255.0 and default gateway blank (important). You will lost internet until you switch back to "obtain address automatically", but LAN will function in game.
A much simplier method is to install "Gameranger" and use that as a lobby (thus no need to do all of the above).
Links
Age of Empires II Official Microsoft Site; Download Trial Version available