Happy Thanksgiving everyone. So as everyone knows Thanksgiving is a great time to get together with family and what better to do with family then play computer games. In my family Age of Empires II is still the all-time classic. This afternoon while getting one of my computers ready to play AOE2 I noticed that the colors were showing up weird. This particular computer is running Windows 7 64 bit. After trying a bunch of things and searching around online I found the answer. To make the colors show up right you need to follow these steps:
- Launch the game.
- While it is launching start the Task Manager.
- Click on the Processes tab.
- Find explorer.exe, click on it then click on the End Process button.
- Alt+Tab to get back to AOE2
That’s it and you’re off and running like normal. When you’re done follow these steps to start the explorer.exe process again:
- Ctl+Alt+Delete then select Start Task Manager.
- File -> New Task (Run…)
- Type explorer.exe in the text field where it says Open.
- Click OK
Now you have everything back like it should be and you’re good to go.
I hope this helps someone else out there that might be trying to play AOE2 on a newer computer or any other older game. When trying to play any older game try to run it in compatibility mode and try this. If neither of those work then you’re probably out of luck. Enjoy the turkey and pie!
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Thanks for all your help Joe! And your site is very Helpful and gives me very good tips! Thanks so much!