Vista Tutorial - Problem with Age of Empires II

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

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

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

hi!!

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

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

Bye

can u repost that or redirect? something is wrong with the link - either broken or removed

Gusanto, can u post the link again because the page cannot be found

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

Post it again properly

i need it, post it again please

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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....