"Ruskets" wrote:

> I have one dell laptop running Vista home premium and a number of XP
> computers. The vista computer can run AOEII:C on XPSP2 compatibility mode
> and join any multiplayer game hosted by an XP computer. The problem is that
> it cannot host a multiplayer game. On Lan TCP/IP, when I click create game
> it goes to the "Creating Game - wait 15 sec..." screen, then goes back to the
> main multiplayer menu after a couple seconds. No error messages or anything.
> I have directx 10 and the 1.0c patch installed.

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.