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Problem with Age of Empires II

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Old 04-15-2008   #11 (permalink)
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  Unit92 is offline

Re: Problem with Age of Empires II

Gustano: firstly im making 2 assumptions.
1. your problem is the same as the OP:

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After install Age of Empires II, i try to play, but it not run and the
message is: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video
card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"
My Pc is new, i have a good ATI card and i try with the solutions proposed
in this link without any result:
"Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw" error message when you start Age of Empires II

Can anyone help me, please??!! :s
2: that you are extracting all 3 files to both the age of empires directory and the subdirectory created by conquerors.

If this is the case you may not have the specific Permissions to initiate Direct3D under your system so i would suggest selecting Run as Administrator" under the file options.

see if that helps
Old 04-15-2008   #12 (permalink)
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Re: Problem with Age of Empires II

Hello,

Thank you for answer me, I have many time without solve this problem, sice I changed my ati radeon x1950 pro to my geforce 8800 gt.

1. Yes, that is my problem. ("Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw" error message when you start Age of Empires II), sometimes appear that message but other times starts the presentation of the game and then appear a black screen and when I move my mouse appear many diferent colors.

2. I can't extract the files directly to my game's directory (when i try to extract them directly appear a window telling me that is no permitted). so i had to extract them to my desktop and then i copied them to the games, should work??

The problem is still there.


I have a geforce 8800 gt, original windows vista and the game is also original.

Another thing when I disabled my geforce 8800 videocard and try with the card that was including in my pc it works. but I don't want to disable another time my card. so i want to fix this problem with your advice.

I already run the game as an admin.

Thank you.

Gusanto

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Old 04-20-2008   #13 (permalink)
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Re: Problem with Age of Empires II

hi!!

I already fixed this problem, only installing the below file...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Bye
Old 05-09-2008   #14 (permalink)
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Re: Problem with Age of Empires II

can u repost that or redirect? something is wrong with the link - either broken or removed
Old 06-18-2008   #15 (permalink)
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Re: Problem with Age of Empires II

Gusanto, can u post the link again because the page cannot be found
Old 06-25-2008   #16 (permalink)
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Re: Problem with Age of Empires II

Hi,
I don't know where the directories are so i can't do the zip thing.
My computer said dd works but aoe2 won't work still.
Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help
Old 06-25-2008   #17 (permalink)
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Re: Problem with Age of Empires II

Post it again properly
Old 07-01-2008   #18 (permalink)
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Re: Problem with Age of Empires II

i need it, post it again please
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Old 07-02-2008   #20 (permalink)
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"ricco4" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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What the dickens are you on about??? You've snipped out all the history of
this thread so all it sounds like is, based on the subject line, that you
want a problem posting....


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