Comments on: How to play Age of Empires II on Windows Vista and Windows 7

By: Jo Voud

Jo Voud — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:48:00 +0000

It’s a NAT (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation ) problem, just use vpn software such as hamachi (
https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/ ) or play on the ‘new’ zone (previously called igz) voobly (http://www.voobly.com/ ). I realy can recommend Voobly, it realy is like the old zone but better! Voobly supports a proxy, hereby you don’t have these nat problems and you don’t need to forward ports. In case you want to play over the internet (or a more advanced lan), you just need to forward 2300-2400 UDP/TCP and 47624 UDP/TCP. Also update your game ( http://www.voobly.com/pages/view/175/Game-Patches ) for AOE2:TC update to official 1.0c patch and after that to the unofficial 1.0e patch.

Also as I came on your blog because of your html canvas articles, why not try to rebuild the game using html5 techniques?

grtz,Jo
Ps. AOE2:TC awsome game!

By: Fghjk

Fghjk — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:17:00 +0000

Install the program “Gameranger”. Quick install and works 100% !!!!!

By: spasst chopf

spasst chopf — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:41:00 +0000

I had similar problems but now everything works fine. Exept Lan over hamachi 2player works but 3player is just soo laggy, can someone help me?

By: Xamboozi

Xamboozi — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:47:00 +0000

This isn’t a piracy problem moron. This is a problem with the game being too old to run on Windows 7. I’m having the same difficulty, but there is no more tech support for this game.

In the future don’t accuse people of stealing, unless they have really committed theft.

By: Thinh Phung Quoc

Thinh Phung Quoc — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:18:00 +0000

not work at all!!!

By: Dhawal

Dhawal — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:02:00 +0000

I installed AOE III, but after installing, when I tried to open the game, I was told insert CD. I am using Windows 7, GEFORCE GT 540M.

By: Nimitz

Nimitz — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:27:00 +0000

Hey had all these problems tried it all……ya know what worked? use tcp/ip for direct play and instead of typing in ip under show games tyoes computer NAME! workes without disconnecting from internet or static ips! unbelievable!

By: Pm

Pm — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:10:00 +0000

You’re not clear on what your problem is, but the only issue I have had on Win7 (other than LAN play) is the picture quality–it’s dithered improperly and has a grainy look with wrong colors. The workaround (if this is your problem) is to start the game, minimize it, start Task Manager, click the Processes tab, highlight explorer.exe, and kill it. Then click the Appplications tab, select AoE, and click Switch To… When you are done playing, in Task Manager, click New Task… and type in explorer.exe to get your shell back.

By: Andrewhillebrand

Andrewhillebrand — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:30:00 +0000

i tried the link to download the game but it was a trojan virus thank god i have good anti virus protection

By: David Hart

David Hart — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:46:00 +0000

Trying to get windows 7 laptop to work multiplayer with XP.

The laptop is able to find the XP’s game but is “unable to join”.

Set both computers to have static ip now can’t even find the game.
I didn’t give either one a DNS but they shouldn’t need it because it’s really only LAN.
I did give them both the same subnet mask and default whatchacallit and of course two different ip addresses but as I said, neither one can find each other’s game. I was pretty sure I was doin’ it right too…

I also run AoE2 in compatability with windows service pack 3 just to be sure to be sure.