Yeah, the colors messed on me a lot, especially at first. It has been a
constant struggle to keep them working. Some of the compatibility settings
in properties->compatibility tab helped, like disabling desktop composition,
but don't check the "run in 256 color" mode. Sometimes Alt-tabbing out of
the game once it has started and then Alt-tabbing back in worked to fix the
colors. It seemed like everytime I changed something, the colors would fix,
but then Vista would find a way to mess them up again. Good luck!

* Definitely use XPSP2 compatibility mode or lower.

"matts547" wrote:
> How did you even get AOE II and/Conquerors to work on Widows Vista. The
> game runs just fine, but the picture is terrible. any ideas or suggestions.