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.

"Vista Kid" <Vista Kid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>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.
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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.
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"VRG Scotty©" wrote:

>
> "Vista Kid" <Vista Kid@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EEEE8ACC-A9ED-4E3B-BEF0-489213BC58FF@microsoft.com...
> >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.
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> VRG Scotty
>
> www.vistareadygames.com
> Register, it's free, and use the 'search for solution' tab for any problems
>
>

"ecky64" <ecky64@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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
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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

Vista Users: Try right clicking either the shortcut to aoe2 or going
straight to the .exe itself.

After right clicking choose properties.

Select the "compatibility" tab.

Check the box which reads, "Run this program in compatibility mode
for:"

Be sure that Windows XP (Service Pack 2) is the selection in the drop
down just below the box you just checked.

Click "Apply", then "OK"

It should work after that. I was experiencing the same problems, and
tried this.
It has worked fine since, and does not require one to do something
every time he wants to play the game.


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I have a similar problem as the OP in regards to the "toxic waste".

What happens to me, and this has only happened to me last night for the
first time, is that within five minutes of gameplay, the computer
screens pixels will change color to what is known as 'toxic waste'.

Whenever I minimize the screen, the colors change back to what they
were, but the pixels usually revert within a matter of minutes. I have
never had this happen to me before.

I read this thread and any other thread I could find on google, but
none of the suggestions have actually helped me.

Could anyone think of a reason why this is happening? I think this is
the strangest thing - that colors change for no reason, no matter how
many times I start a new game or turn off my computer and start again.

Anyways, thanks. Hopefully I can get some help.


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all you have to do to fix the color display is press the little windows
flag button on your keyboard it will minimize to the windows desktop
then just click back on the game and the colors should be fixed also I
recommend playing on highest graphic settings too. My problem is I can't
seem to get the single player mode to work tho. I have the actual game
but I used a cracked version so I could play my bro. using lan on comp.
upstairs idk what he did now the single player just stops working now
any ideas


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Vista Kid;3760390 Wrote:
> 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.
i also have the same problem(i own age of empires 2 the
conqurers)......i have two operating systems on my computer,
1.Windows XP
2.Windows vista

i had only 95 mb of space left in my comp....i opened my XP and it
crashed
(blue screen)saying that the errors could be-
1.less disk space etc...

so,i opened vista n cleared all my useless data....then around 2 gb was
left but then too blue screen comes....

help would be really appreciated..


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Please help. I just want to play the game I purchased. Have Vista
Ultimate, plenty of memory and speed. ATI Radeon Xpress 1150. All my
drivers are up to date. The Direct X is up to date. Alt/Tab-ing used to
work but no longer does. Its all "toxic waste grass" all the time now.

I have Alt Tabbed
I have switched from 16 to 32 bit
I have run as Admin
I have run in compatibility mode for XP
I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice.
Basically I have tried everything I have read here and any other forum
I could find, and nothing as worked. Obviously this is what I get for
buying a game that wasn't designed for *edit* Vista. After I bought it,
I read this was a common problem and MS was not going to release a patch
for it, but has anyone ever come up with anything? Any help would be
appreciated.


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I have a toshiba satellite A505, with 4 gig of sdram, intel core duo 2
gigahert processor, intel graphics media accelerator drivers, mobile
intel 4 series express chipset family (?monitor?), it's all brand new. I
am running windows vista home premium. I can install ages II, with
expansion pack, no problem, but can not get the game to start. says it
encountered a problem... unspecified at that. i have tried windows xp
compatibility mode, and uninstalling and reinstalling, have tried just
about everything, here and all that i can think of... can a powerful
laptop run this game? any help out there?? i love ages 2 conqeruers...
:-(


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