I am own the Ubisoft Release, too and tried to install AoE plus Burning Rom on Win10. It works very well, if you use some help but AoE runs without compatibility mode this why it is easy. Cummins Incal December 2012 Callendar. • Going to install Age of Empires plus Expansion Pack, without Administration rights or compatibility mode • Download from Internet the Age of Empires Upatch, a fan patch to update the games with higher resolutions and so on and it fixes some compatibility issues, than run it normally. Follow the instructions • Go to the Programs and Features window from Windows 10 (you can find this menu in the applications menu of the settings) and activate everything under 'legacy components' with DirectPlay, wait a second • Start the game. It depends a lot on the hardware to have, most issues I encountered are driver related.

Haven't tried with my current PC, but on my old one they worked all fine. Also, installing the unofficial patches for Age1 and Age2 make things a lot smoother: Age1: Age2: I'm not sure if they remove copy protection of the games, if you don't have an optical drive anymore you need a different solution.

I used cd images for years, to save my CDs from getting even more scrated and probably brake at some point. An Alternative would be to wait for the next sale on Steam, I did that and bought them heavily discounted. Try the Age of Empires Legacy Bundlen with Age 2HD and Age 3, with all Addons. A bit more is the Microsoft RTS Collectio with Age 2HD, Age 3, AoM EE, RoN EE and Halo Wars 1 with all Addons. The dates for the next sales are alread leaked, its 22nd to 28th November and 21st december to 4th january.

I bought the original CD version--again--i found it at a GoodWill--sealed. I installed AOE II Kings and Conquerors expansion. Ran the Age2XPatch and the UserPatch v1.4 setup with no hiccups. On the first run--the splash and intro video began.then crashed. I cannot start the game. I have run in compatibility mode for all going back to like 98.

What do I have to do yo? This was my favorite game for the longest and if I go the Steam route--it would be like the 3rd time I purchase the same game! LOL.i dig it but not that much. Before running the Age2XPatch.exe patch, did you run the Age2upA.exe patch first? I would check first if the game can run already after those two before applying the UserPatch 1.4, also UserPatch version 1.5 beta is available at the moment.

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Compatibility mode need to be set on age2_x1.exe to Windows XP (SP3) and mark 'Disable visual themes', 'Disable desktop composition', 'Disable display scaling on high DPI settings' and 'Run this program as an administrator'. If you have a problem with graphics and strange colors, you will need to kill the explorer through the task manager before launching a play and start it again after finished playing AOE II. I did make a script for this once way back in time. Now I play the AOE II HD Edition from steam, it doesn't have all those problems.