Note that Age of Empires I does work fine with Windows 7 SP1 in a virtual machine, so I guess it might be due to some conflict with my graphic card's drivers (NVIDIA GeForce GTX660M). What else can I try to solve the issue (without having to run Age of Empires 1 on a different OS, and without having to buy anything else as I have already bought the CD over 15 years ago)? The criticisms I have heard - which mostly focus on 1) similarities to Warcraft 2 and/or 2) hatred for Microsoft in general - are both simply way off the mark. If you have been waiting for the next release in the Age series, well, here it is. I tried to change the monitor's resolution to 800圆00 (which is the default resolution of Age of Empires I): In the meantime, Age of Empires marks the first fully mature real-time strategy title. Latest News AoE IV released Posted by PhatFish on October 29th, 2021 1:36 p.m.

In dxdiag I checked that all my displays have DirectDraw enabled: I followed the instructions printed on DirectDraw or Direct3D option is unavailable but it didn't work (and they went written for Windows XP, not Windows 7).

I tried to change the compatibility mode and run as administrator but it didn't help: Make sure that your video cardĪnd driver are compatible with DirectDraw. After the installation whenever I tried to run the game ( Empires.exe) I get the following error right at the beginning:Ĭould not initialize graphics system. I installed Age of Empires I on Windows 7 SP1 圆4 Ultimate.

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