Age of Empires 2 not working in Windows Vista Home Premium

[rravindhran]

I have installed Age of Empires 2 in my Windows Vista Home Premium edition, whenever I launch the game, I get the error message ""Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw" I have ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics card, any help will be appreciated.

I have tried modifying the target with "nostartup" also as advised in the Microsoft site but still have the issue. I tried installed DirectX 9 also, eventhough by default I have DirectX 10 but no success.

Thanks in advance,

Ravi

[mkashif14]

me too facing the same problem..........

can anybody help........

[Thunderbolt 2864]

Does the compatibility feature work? Try that first.

This is stupid, even for Microsoft, see if there is a patch released for compatibility for Windows Vista.

[Polarman]

Just tested.

Works fine here. Even shows in game explorer.

Updated to 2.0a

Set game to:

Compatibility mode to Win XP/sp2

Disable Visual theme

Disable Desktop Composition

Run as administrator

Edited November 8, 2007 by Polarman

[Ypia]

I had the same problem, with the same graphics card. I found a solution on a spanish forum. Try to install new drivers for the video card from this site: http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/

Hope this helps, it did for me! I didn't even have to use compatibility mode.