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Age of Empires 2 Issues
I love Age of Empires 2 (I own the Conquerors Expansion, Gold Edition). Only
problem is that I recently got Windows Vista and have been experiencing these three problems: 1) The colors sometimes get messed up and the graphics become skewed. The most noticable example of this is when the grass becomes mixed with red blotches. 2) I'm having trouble connecting online with other players, regardless of their operating systems. My friends and I used to quickly and easily connect together but now the systems (mine and theirs) tend to crash. 3)Regular crashes about an hour or two into playing. A remedy for all or any of these problems would be greatly appreciated. |
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Age of Empires 2 Issues
I, too, have the same problem with red blothes on the screen. Land looks more like a toxic waste land. Plus the color teal shows up as yellow in the small scale map on the bottom right corner. Gets confusing when playing a game not knowing if its the real yellow or the teal showing up as yellow. Any help out there for this issue? AOE 2 works flawlessly on my XP desktop but sucks on my brand new laptop with vista ultimate. Thanks much in advance. -- nycdet1997 |
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Age of Empires 2 Issues
Just the update of dx9 will do the job as it's a fanastic game you dont want
to stop playing it WELL DONE TO VRG Scotty 10/10 for your answer. -- ecky watson "VRG Scotty©" wrote: "Vista Kid" Vista wrote in message ... I love Age of Empires 2 (I own the Conquerors Expansion, Gold Edition). Only problem is that I recently got Windows Vista and have been experiencing these three problems: 1) The colors sometimes get messed up and the graphics become skewed. The most noticable example of this is when the grass becomes mixed with red blotches. 2) I'm having trouble connecting online with other players, regardless of their operating systems. My friends and I used to quickly and easily connect together but now the systems (mine and theirs) tend to crash. 3)Regular crashes about an hour or two into playing. A remedy for all or any of these problems would be greatly appreciated. Update all drivers (GFX and DX9), also allow the game in the firewall, try turning of UAC. -- VRG Scotty www.vistareadygames.com Register, it's free, and use the 'search for solution' tab for any problems |
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Age of Empires 2 Issues
"ecky64" wrote in message ... Just the update of dx9 will do the job as it's a fanastic game you dont want to stop playing it WELL DONE TO VRG Scotty 10/10 for your answer. Glad you have it sorted -- VRG Scotty www.vistareadygames.com Register, it's free, and use the 'search for solution' tab for any problems |
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Age of Empires 2 Issues
OK i tryed all these things im still having aoc problems is there anything i
can do? please !!! the toxic waste grass is killing me i play this game often works great on my XP comp but my new dell XPS rated [4.8] havin issues i dled all GFX updates + dx9 latest oh and whats UAC? maybe that may help |
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Age of Empires 2 Issues
I had the same graphics problem. I downloaded DirectX9c and I have no graphics issues anymore. @Wfoss - If you are having problems connecting to players over the internet your problem is likely a port forwarding problem. Go to the International Gaming Zone ('www.IGZones.com' (http://www.IGZones.com)) and get live help through their client. Or you can read up about it some more at 'Problems with Hosting and Joining games. | International Gaming Zones; Matchmaking for Gaming!' (http://www.igzones.com/problems-host...joining-games). Those 2 links should pretty much solve any hosting or joining problems. If you have any other issues, describe them in _detail_. -- mmmangos |
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Age of Empires 2 Issues
I appear to have solved most of my problems, and I appreciate all of your
help. All of my graphics issues are pretty much over and I play single player games with ease. But a simple vista-to-vista game (between two computers on the same router, one wired and one wireless) doesn't seem to be possible. I am fully able to host a game, but when my brother tries to join he can't seem to get past the "Press ESC if not connected in 15 seconds" screen. I am able to see his name in the room, with a ping of 30 (always). I've already turned off UAC and added the game to thee list of Windows Firewall execptions. What can be done to fix this? |
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Age of Empires 2 Issues
I know this has something to do with router ports. Look up something called DXport. All I know is that this program or a program like it splits up the ports needed for the games between the 2 computers on your router, or something like that. -- mmmangos |
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