[Widescreen Troubleshooting] AoE III demo Initialization failed

[MobiusPizza]

For those who are on widescreen resolution with following error message when starting AoE 3 demo:

"Initialization Failed
Direct3D Initialization failed. Possible causes:
Old or corrupted graphics driver.
Direct3D improperly installed.
Hardware acceleration disabled.
Starting the application with the wrokstation locked
"

and have the latest drivers and have not encountered DirectX problems with any other games, the solution is as follows:

Navigate to your AOE II demo installation folder, go to startUp fodler. Make a text file and change the name and extention to user.cfg

Add 2 lines in the following manner:

xres=*your x resolution*
yres=*your y resolution*
without artesik

For me it is
xres=1680
yres=1050

for my Dell 2005FPW
The problem should be gone

 

[JBT]

1920x1200 works fine for me but I can't see a damn thing in text. Everything is amazingly small 🙁