Video card and driver compatibility with Age of Empires I and II

Hi I recently installed Age of Empires I (with the rise of rome expansion
pack) and Age of Empires II (with the conquerers expansion pack) from the
Age of Empires Collector's Edition. The installation went without a hitch
but when I go to play the game a box comes up saying 'Could not initalize
graphics system. Make sure your video card and driver are compatible with
DirectDraw. I've tried a few things but nothing works. Age of Mythology
works fine on my computer but I can't work out why these two games can't
work. Can u help me please.
Thanks,
Lowana.

You might try going to the Microsoft web site and download and install
DX9.1c. Some of the directX components are missing in Vista (not really,
but that's the simple answer!), so reinstalling DX9 does fix a lot of
issues. If that doesn't work, let us know.

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com


Lowana wrote:
> Hi I recently installed Age of Empires I (with the rise of rome
> expansion pack) and Age of Empires II (with the conquerers expansion
> pack) from the Age of Empires Collector's Edition. The installation went
> without a hitch but when I go to play the game a box comes up saying
> 'Could not initalize graphics system. Make sure your video card and
> driver are compatible with DirectDraw. I've tried a few things but
> nothing works. Age of Mythology works fine on my computer but I can't
> work out why these two games can't work. Can u help me please.
> Thanks,
> Lowana.

i have the same problem but i cant find direct x 9 in the download center.
cloud you please help me find it for vista home premium?

"Dustin Harper" wrote:

> You might try going to the Microsoft web site and download and install
> DX9.1c. Some of the directX components are missing in Vista (not really,
> but that's the simple answer!), so reinstalling DX9 does fix a lot of
> issues. If that doesn't work, let us know.
>
> --
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
>
> Lowana wrote:
> > Hi I recently installed Age of Empires I (with the rise of rome
> > expansion pack) and Age of Empires II (with the conquerers expansion
> > pack) from the Age of Empires Collector's Edition. The installation went
> > without a hitch but when I go to play the game a box comes up saying
> > 'Could not initalize graphics system. Make sure your video card and
> > driver are compatible with DirectDraw. I've tried a few things but
> > nothing works. Age of Mythology works fine on my computer but I can't
> > work out why these two games can't work. Can u help me please.
> > Thanks,
> > Lowana.
>

http://www.microsoft.com/DirectX

For all your DirectX needs.

"same problem but still need help" <same problem but still need
help@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i have the same problem but i cant find direct x 9 in the download center.
> cloud you please help me find it for vista home premium?
>
> "Dustin Harper" wrote:
>
>> You might try going to the Microsoft web site and download and install
>> DX9.1c. Some of the directX components are missing in Vista (not really,
>> but that's the simple answer!), so reinstalling DX9 does fix a lot of
>> issues. If that doesn't work, let us know.
>>
>> --
>> Dustin Harper
>> dharper@vistarip.com
>> http://www.vistarip.com
>>
>>
>> Lowana wrote:
>> > Hi I recently installed Age of Empires I (with the rise of rome
>> > expansion pack) and Age of Empires II (with the conquerers expansion
>> > pack) from the Age of Empires Collector's Edition. The installation
>> > went
>> > without a hitch but when I go to play the game a box comes up saying
>> > 'Could not initalize graphics system. Make sure your video card and
>> > driver are compatible with DirectDraw. I've tried a few things but
>> > nothing works. Age of Mythology works fine on my computer but I can't
>> > work out why these two games can't work. Can u help me please.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Lowana.
>>

I had the same problem with age of empires I and II. I tried eveything
you said Im stumped. Can you help me? Please?
BigAl050


--
BigAl050

Anybody,
I've tried everything but I still cant get AOE2 to work.
Please,Please,PLEASE.
Help Me.
Thank You.
BigAl050


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BigAl050

I recommend you list your computer specs if this is a hardware driver problem.
Are you running in 32 bit compatibility mode. Did you download the latest
drivers from your hardware manufacturers website?

I can tell you that AOE 2 does work on my 64 bit machine.

"BigAl050" wrote:

>
> Anybody,
> I've tried everything but I still cant get AOE2 to work.
> Please,Please,PLEASE.
> Help Me.
> Thank You.
> BigAl050
>
>
> --
> BigAl050
>

[havoc5485]

hi im having a problem with the first age of empires and the rise of rome expansion everything installs fine but when i go to single player it tells me to insert disk even tho it is already in there i have vista and was wondering if there were any solutions if u could please e-mail me anything that could help it would be very thankfull i tried the whole compatabilty tab thing to and vista isn't on it so thatnx for your time