 Age of Empires 2 not working in Windows Vista Home Premium |
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 Nov 5 2007, 11:19 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 5-November 07 Member No.: 161161 OS: Vista Home Premium x64 
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I have installed Age of Empires 2 in my Windows Vista Home Premium edition, whenever I launch the game, I get the error message ""Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw" I have ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics card, any help will be appreciated.
I have tried modifying the target with "nostartup" also as advised in the Microsoft site but still have the issue. I tried installed DirectX 9 also, eventhough by default I have DirectX 10 but no success. Thanks in advance, Ravi |
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Nov 7 2007, 12:38 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 30-October 07 Member No.: 160350 OS: Vista Home x86 
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me too facing the same problem..........
can anybody help........ |
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Nov 7 2007, 04:32 AM
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Trance & Hardstyle Fan  Group: Members Posts: 496 Joined: 28-December 05 From: Australia Member No.: 83688 OS: XP Pro x64 
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Does the compatibility feature work? Try that first.
This is stupid, even for Microsoft, see if there is a patch released for compatibility for Windows Vista. |
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Nov 7 2007, 08:41 PM
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Long Live PC's Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 6-February 05 From: Laval Member No.: 43210 OS: Vista Home Premium x86 
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Just tested.
Works fine here. Even shows in game explorer. Updated to 2.0a Set game to: Compatibility mode to Win XP/sp2 Disable Visual theme Disable Desktop Composition Run as administrator This post has been edited by Polarman: Nov 7 2007, 08:42 PM |
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Nov 22 2007, 02:31 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 22-November 07 Member No.: 163487 OS: Vista Home Premium x86 
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I had the same problem, with the same graphics card. I found a solution on a spanish forum. Try to install new drivers for the video card from this site: http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/
Hope this helps, it did for me! I didn't even have to use compatibility mode. |
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