Age Of Mythology keeps minimizing while playing on Vista

[Necaradan666]

I am trying to run Age of Mythology on Vista but the game constantly
minimizes to the taskbar. The game seems to run fine after I maximize it
again but it's very annoying to say the least. Anyone have an idea of what
could be causing this?

[Necaradan666]

So I guess nobody has any idea how I could go about fixing this problem???

Same problem for me too- except the screen only opens for a second and then
minimizes.

Yet another Windows Vista glitch?

[Patrick]

I have this exact same problem in Company of Heroes and Titanquest.

All of these types of problems are really pushing me towards a macbook for
my next computer purchase. I am not a happy customer. SO MANY VISTA
PROBLEMS.

It almost seems like everything worked during the beta and now nothing
works. :ppppp

[mtbearz2u]

Well I found that many of my Vista problems (including AOM) were solved when
I changed the DEP (Data Execution Prevention) settings.

Another problem is to check if you have any "ghost-drives" (a non-existant
CD/DVD drive) listed in your "Divice Manager" which can cause some games to
misbehave.

The Microsoft Tech's in India are ideots and I spent over 9 hours on the
phone with them before giving up when they wanted me to uninstall Vista and
do a clean reinstall to solve this simple problem.

The following day I spoke with Microsoft Windows Vista tech (James) in
Canada and he solved the problem in 16 minutes.

[Necaradan666]

So what settings did you have to change in DEP to get games not to minimize
all the time???

[TBI]

I've found the solution on Windows 7!!

I was facing the same problem until I tried this:

1) Go to aom.exe/aomx.exe properties
2) Go to compatibility tab
3) Select Run in 640x840 screen resolution
4) Enter the game
5) Go to Options ( in-game )
6) Change the resolution to your computer resolution
7) Exit the game
8) Go again to properties->compatibility->Deselect 'Run in 640x840 screen res.'
9) Now you can open the game everytime without problems! Enjoy!