Comments on: Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems

By: joeHope

joeHope — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:12:05 +0000

I was able to correct extreme lag on Conquerors multiplayer by turning off UPnP under the administrations menu on my Linksys WiFi router. Maybe that will help someone? I host a game on Win7 x64 and play against two Vista machines no problem now — it was hardly playable before. Used the batch file to fix colors on Win7 and Ctrl-Alt-Del works on Vista.

By: Amalgamook

Amalgamook — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:05:52 +0000

“Sometimes after extended play, the game will freeze and all players will be kicked out to a screen that asks you to select an option from continue, wait, resign or save and exit. This usually results in the host unable to talk to the clients and the only eventual outcome is the players having to resign. Because of this you should save regularly, as the save and exit option inevitably rarely ends up working. The game is fine again if the host restores a game from a previous save.”

This is the exact (and only) problem I’ve been having with AoE II on Windows 7 64-bit. It’s quite the annoyance, but only seems to occur when there’s either fighting going on, or large amounts of military units in production. Decreasing the population cap doesn’t solve the problem; it’ll occur under any circumstance which involves battle or copious amounts of simultaneous military production. As ASD said, if there’s a solution other than saving, it would be most appreciated if it was known.

By: radionics

radionics — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:21:29 +0000

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By: asd

asd — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:41:40 +0000

If anyone knows solution to this problem, other than saving, please share it!

By: Alexander Cruz

Alexander Cruz — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:03:32 +0000

I found a solution for the “Toxic wasteland”, you just need to CTRL + ALT +DELETE then kill explorer.exe, you should be seeing everything in order, when you get bored of the game, press SUPER (windows key)+ R then type explorer.exe

By: Mattlekim

Mattlekim — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:34:47 +0000

I have a solution to fix the colours create a batchfile in your aoe folder

write this in the batch file

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1.exe
Start explorer.exe

then run the batch file to play the game.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:27:14 +0000

My friend and I love playing AoE:The Conquerors together and we’ve both managed to take care of the graphics problem (he closes explorer, I have the screen resolution screen up) but suffer from pretty bad lag. We’ll definitely try your suggestions.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:52:04 +0000

This guy has done some work towards resolving the colour issues by hacking ddraw.dll and reimplementing in openGL. People might have luck with that – I haven’t had time to test yet. http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/

By: Hussein Duvigneau

Hussein Duvigneau — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:08:19 +0000

About the fancy colours in windows 7/vista. You can get rid of this effect by tabbing out closing explorer.exe from your processes before starting a match. It is possible to write a script to close explorer, launch the game, and then reopen explorer.exe upon closing the game.

By: Nakul

Nakul — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:52:16 +0000

thanks a lot
ur guide is just great and awesome