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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

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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.

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

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:

  1. Open Age of Empires II
  2. Alt-Tab out of the game
  3. Turn off explorer.exe
    1. open task manager (ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+shift+esc)
    2. go to "processes" tab
    3. find "explorer.exe" in the "image name" column
    4. select "explorer.exe" and hit "end process"
  4. (Play Game without color issue)
  5. (finish playing game)
  6. Restore explorer.exe
    1. open task manager (ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+shift+esc)
    2. in the top left, on the menu bar, click "File" and "New Task (Run...)"
    3. The "Create New Task" window will pop up
    4. enter "explorer.exe" in the open:[textbox]
    5. 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 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

Links

Age of Empires Official Microsoft Site; Download Trial Version available

Age of Empires II Official Microsoft Site; Download Trial Version available

Wikia for the entire series

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