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