Note: kudos to TechSmith Snagit which was able to capture the screens successfully the first two capture utilities I tried could not do so. The only remaining question: why does this work? Click OK and your taskbar and desktop will return. Then click Applications, New Task, and type Explorer in the dialog.

If Task Manager is no longer running, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to get it back. Once you are done playing, exit Age of Empires. Switch back to Age of Empires 2 with Alt-Tab Click the Processes tab, find explorer.exe, select and click End ProcessĤ. Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and click Start Task Managerģ. It’s playable, but that purple-stained sea and mottled grass is just not how it should be.įortunately there is a fix, and you can get Age of Empires 2 looking like this instead: The bad news is that the graphics are messed up. The good news is that Age of Empires 2, also known as Age of Kings or with the expansion pack Age of Conquerors, still runs on Windows 7 – impressive for a game that was released ten years ago. One of the problems with version three is that the scenarios are more constrained and the introduction of home cities and colonies changes the game in a radical and not altogether welcome manner. Age of Empires 3 was better in some ways, worse in others somehow it is not as much fun. Age of Empires 2 is one of my favourite games, especially multi-player.

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