Problem with Age of Empires II

Has anyone found the solution yet ?!
I was able to play the game fine on a low spec win98 PC with a simple
Riva TNT 64 (does any one remember these??) and unable to do so on my
much higher spec winXP laptop with an ATI X1400 ...

really frustrating

Age of nations, AoE III and the rest are all ok ...
Just AoE II doesn't work ...

You bet I have directDraw!!
(dxdiag performed wonderfully!)

I even tried the stupid suggestions in MS Knowledge base ... of course
they didn't work ...

any help is appreciated ... i really miss this game!

Olórin;764843 Wrote:
> "ricco4" <guest.RemoveThis@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
> news:28cc1928088661f36eb55a292c269bc8@xxxxxx-gateway.com...> > >
> > >
> > > i need it, post it again please:o
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ricco4 > >
>
> <hits Ctrl-Enter instead of Ctrl-End first time...>
>
> What the dickens are you on about??? You've snipped out all the
> history of
> this thread so all it sounds like is, based on the subject line, that
> you
> want a problem posting....


oh sorry, i'm spanish and i haven't understand you:o

i have the same problem as everyone, i have a new toshiba laptop with a
ati mobility radeon hd2600 with all ok, new drivers, last directx and
all these things, i have tried a lot of things, i have searched the
problem in three different languages in google for more results but
nothing, everytime the same message, so what can we do? i hope i have
tell all correctly


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ricco4

"ricco4" <guest.RemoveThis@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Olórin;764843 Wrote:
>> "ricco4" <guest.RemoveThis@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
>> news:28cc1928088661f36eb55a292c269bc8@xxxxxx-gateway.com...> > >
>> > >
>> > > i need it, post it again please:o
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > ricco4 > >
>>
>> <hits Ctrl-Enter instead of Ctrl-End first time...>
>>
>> What the dickens are you on about??? You've snipped out all the
>> history of
>> this thread so all it sounds like is, based on the subject line, that
>> you
>> want a problem posting....
>
>
> oh sorry, i'm spanish and i haven't understand you:o
>
> i have the same problem as everyone, i have a new toshiba laptop with a
> ati mobility radeon hd2600 with all ok, new drivers, last directx and
> all these things, i have tried a lot of things, i have searched the
> problem in three different languages in google for more results but
> nothing, everytime the same message, so what can we do? i hope i have
> tell all correctly
>
>
> --
> ricco4

What to do? For a start, tell us WHAT the problem is! "The same problem as
everyone" is, you'll have to admit, rather all-encompassing....

my problem is when i run age of empires ii, a message says "Could not
initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver
are compatible with DirectDraw"


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ricco4

nothing?


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ricco4

"ricco4" <guest.RemoveThis@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> nothing?
>
>
> --
> ricco4

It would help if you didn't snip out your original post, containing details
of the problem:

"my problem is when i run age of empires ii, a message says "Could not
initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are
compatible with DirectDraw""

Just to post "nothing?" is begging to be ignored....

I don't run Vista but like lurking in this group just for kicks.... My
immediate thought would be: well, have you checked that your video card and
driver are compatible with DirectDraw?