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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

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Template:Infobox Template:Infobox Age of Empires (series)

Availability

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The "Age of Empires Collector's Editon" can often be found on store shelves. It is the most cost effective way of acquiring the game, as it contains the following games on a single DVD-ROM:
However, it should be noted that the DVD re-release of these games does 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.

Improvements

Patches

Official

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

The latest patch is Version 2.0a.

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion

The latest patch is Version 1.0c.

Unoffical

Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion
  • UserPatch v1.1:Template:UserPatch An unofficial patch created by "xomicron", v1.1 introduces a number of new game features and bug fixes that were never resolved by Ensemble Studios. Some of the key features included are as follows:
    • Widescreen and high resolution compatibility
    • Automatic Port-Forwarding for UPnP compatible routers
    • Population limit options extended to 250
    • Multiplayer games can be started with only AI players
    • Ungrouped AI players will not ally themselves against humans

Modifications

Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten Empires Fan-made expansion.

boekabart.net WideScreen Mod

Save Game Data

Save Game Location

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You will need to backup all of the above folders and the .nfp file to have all of your player data and progress.

Save Game Cloud Syncing

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Issues and Fixes

Windows Vista/7/8 Colours

See Also: Color Fixes For Older Games

Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 can have issues with displaying true colours in Age of Empires II correctly. This is because the game uses an outdated and no longer supported palette-based colour method. There are currently three available solutions to this issue.

Instructions
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MIDI Music

Instructions

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 Vista/7/8

Instructions
A much simpler method is to install GameRanger and use it for lobbying (thus making all of the above obsolete).

System requirements

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Links


References