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Age of Empires 2 on Windows 7 has color issues

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Hello, i want to run Age of Empires 2 on my Windows 7 rc computer. But there are color issuse when i run it, the grass aren't green and the water isent blue. How should i do to fix this? I have try to run it complatify with windows xp service pack 2, and installd some driexct 9 drivers. but not result to better colors. I hope someone have a good answer, because i love this game.

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Go into task manager select the processes tab and end explorer.exe then alt-tab back into age of empires
Note: this will make your task bar disapear and any open folders
To restart explorer open the task manager agian in the aplications tab hit new task and type explorer in the box
The colours change because of the Aero theme's poor handling of colours

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You can also make a batch file with the following lines and place it in the same location as your age of empires 2 executable

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

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Amazing! I found a long sought after solution for this that REALLY WORKS!

You can run Age of Empires II Age of Kings in a WINDOW using the mod downloadable from this site in Brazil:

<Link Removed> and click on "faça o download aqui" to download.

Unzip to your Age directory and launch the AoC.exe to run. Nothing else necessary!

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Frozzare,

Try minimizing the game with Windows + M and then maximizing it again. It's not a perfect fix, but Wikipedia seems to think that it'll work okay.

This forum post (http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/2790-age-empires-2-aoc-expansion.html) reports that fix only working under Vista, and not W7, however.

Alternately, you could use a little app called D3D Windower (available here: http://www.brothersoft.com/d3dwindower-238977.html), which runs all fullscreen DirectX apps with software emulation. It's been great for playing X-Com under Windows XP and newer (including Windows 7), so I imagine it might help you out here!

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Well, Windows + M don't work, because i get the same colors issuse. I have the latetst drivers for my videocard(nvidia)

And the D3D Windower don't work, it's dosent start the game. It don't hapen anything. And the language(english), don't work well on D3D on W7

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I have the some problem with Ati 4850 , and tried all the solutions on every forum ... none works :(

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I hope someone came up with a good solutions so we can get aoe to work under windows 7!

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I have the same issue when I had W7 beta Is there a compatiblilty mode or something you could try running it in?

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Additionally, by right clicking the program executable, you can select "Disable Visual Themes" under the compatibility tab to avoid having to do what Amakuni suggests every time you start the game :-)

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Additionally, by right clicking the program executable, you can select "Disable Visual Themes" under the compatibility tab to avoid having to do what Amakuni suggests every time you start the game :-)

Best regards,
Sigurd Flaatten

That method doesnt always seem to work, i have 2 computers at my house that are currently dual booted with windows 7 it works on one but not the other :\

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Hi I was wondering if you could provide the content in the batch file for Age of Empires II to start and end explorer. Can you post it on this forum the coding thanks. I tried making my own batch file but only managed to end explorer thanks

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