adam r namie

O.K. everyone,
I obtained a copy of "Age of Empires" (yes, the first one) and want to use it on my new PC (which just happens to be running windows XP) - I can install the game, but when I go to play it, right before the game menu comes up, the screen goes black and the program freezes (the windows task manager says it's not responding). Should I just give up and give the game to someone else or is there a fix for this problem?

The demo version of AOEII that came with the new pc does the same thing!!

Yikes!!

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Stacey R

I don't know if that will fix the problem but, have you installed the patch for AOE. You might want to try and run Windows Update, also. I know that there is an updated version of directX for window which you can get by running windows update. I have the game and I run it on XP pro without any problems.

Stacey

Noah Gottula

You also might want to go and update your video card drivers.

Dave Simpson

Hmm...I installed and played, without incident, the original AOE on an XP-eqiupped PC just last night. No patches, no updates, now new drivers...wierd, man.
Cheers.

DS.

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