But despite installing patch v1. Thus far the game The Conquerors expansion pack will play only with the disc in the drive. EdWD This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Vijay A. Verma Volunteer Moderator. Hi EdWD Greetings! I am Vijay, an Independent Advisor. Have you tried to install this in compatibility mode?
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I'm sure you have provided a solution for someone there. Age of Empires 2 is one of my favourite games, especially multi-player. Age of Empires 3 was better in some ways, worse in others; somehow it is not as much fun. 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.
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.
The bad news is that the graphics are messed up. Here is how it looks:. Run Age of Empires 2 2. Basically, three processes are fighting:. I then wanted to make a program which would change the palette back every time an outside process tried to change it. Also, I was beginning to suspect that this method could work, but would still result in flickering while changing palettes.
I was browsing around at the Worms Armageddon forums , and found out that somebody wrote a DLL with source code for this problem. The code was written in Delphi and easy enough to read: grab a process, find every thread, and send the suspend message to every thread. I converted this code to VB. Note that there is actually also a lesser known way to suspend a process with one API call, without iterating all the threads, which is used in the PsSuspend- and Process Explorer tools made by SysInternals:.
Bed Against The Wall. Update Jul : A new update for the Palettestealersuspender program is up. This release brings some significant UI changes.
The tool now loads and saves settings and hides to the notification area so it can run and monitor games in the background.
The readme contains usage details. The download link below leads you to the latest version. Update Apr : A new version of the program is up again. This version includes the ability to wait for a game until it is started instead of starting the game itself. This is useful when using launchers or lobby programs like Garena which start the game for you.
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Author Info Last Updated: March 29, Method 1. Open Control Panel. Open the Screen Resolution settings page. The best resolution depends on the size of your screen. Apply the changes. Start the game. The game will display in the resolution you set.
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