AoE2 in Vista / Win7

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Originally posted by: Auryg
I've got a batch file on my laptop that fixes this. I'll post what it is here later, but it basically kills windows explorer(.exe), starts the game, and then restarts explorer.

Mmmh. I will try that manually later. Not sure why explorer.exe would mess up the gfx.

 

[Auryg]

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1.exe
Start explorer.exe

That's for the expansion, put in the age2_x1 folder inside the main AoE folder. Works wonderfully.