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Thread: Age of Empires 2: Conquerors Cannot host lan game

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    Ruskets Guest

    Age of Empires 2: Conquerors Cannot host lan game

    I have one dell laptop running Vista home premium and a number of XP
    computers. The vista computer can run AOEII:C on XPSP2 compatibility mode
    and join any multiplayer game hosted by an XP computer. The problem is that
    it cannot host a multiplayer game. On Lan TCP/IP, when I click create game
    it goes to the "Creating Game - wait 15 sec..." screen, then goes back to the
    main multiplayer menu after a couple seconds. No error messages or anything.
    I have directx 10 and the 1.0c patch installed.

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    Serdar KALIN Guest

    Re: Age of Empires 2: Conquerors Cannot host lan game

    Please turn of windows firewall and disable User Accaunt Control ( control
    panel>user accaunt).Then try again

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    Ruskets Guest

    Re: Age of Empires 2: Conquerors Cannot host lan game

    Those were both disabled when I first tried it, and I disabled them again but
    still get the same results.

    When I try to restore a saved game (originally hosted by another computer)
    it acts the same, put provides an error message.

    "Unable to create game. For TCP/IP games you may need to connect to the
    internet before starting Age of Empires 2."

    Is the create game function unable to connect to the network? Or is there
    maybe a temp file that it needs permission to create? Originally, this vista
    computer could not join a custom map game because the map could not be saved
    to the random folder, but messing with "read only" settings seemed to fix
    that.

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    matts547 Guest

    RE: Age of Empires 2: Conquerors Cannot host lan game

    How did you even get AOE II and/Conquerors to work on Widows Vista. The
    game runs just fine, but the picture is terrible. any ideas or suggestions.

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    Ruskets Guest

    RE: Age of Empires 2: Conquerors Cannot host lan game

    Yeah, the colors messed on me a lot, especially at first. It has been a
    constant struggle to keep them working. Some of the compatibility settings
    in properties->compatibility tab helped, like disabling desktop composition,
    but don't check the "run in 256 color" mode. Sometimes Alt-tabbing out of
    the game once it has started and then Alt-tabbing back in worked to fix the
    colors. It seemed like everytime I changed something, the colors would fix,
    but then Vista would find a way to mess them up again. Good luck!

    * Definitely use XPSP2 compatibility mode or lower.

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