Age of Kings on WinXP Pro resolution issues

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Here's the deal, at 800x600 everything appears fine. At higher resolution the textures, particularly grass and water, appear corrupted with strange colors, particularly magenta. Everything checks out with DirectX, and I've already tried a few different video drivers, patches, turning system monitors and antivirus on or off. Reinstallation, registry cleaning etc has no effect.

I have no issues with any other games. Video card is a G4TI4200.

I hadn't played in an awful long time, but I recall this not being an issue in the past. Is there a MS hotfix that is known to mess up AOE? Compatibility modes either crash, or in the case of 2000 will load the game but still have the same problems.

Any ideas? I think I've covered all the standard stuff...
 
Hi Gilgaron,

I'm not sure why you're having that problem, but since you've covered almost all
the bases already according to your post, try steps 2 to 15 in my troubleshooter.
For Video / DirectX / System Configuration Issues I have a Checklist of Solutions
at: http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk I hope that one of the ideas there helps you! :-)

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| Here's the deal, at 800x600 everything appears fine. At higher resolution the textures, particularly grass and water, appear
corrupted with strange colors, particularly magenta. Everything checks out with DirectX, and I've already tried a few different
video drivers, patches, turning system monitors and antivirus on or off. Reinstallation, registry cleaning etc has no effect.
|
| I have no issues with any other games. Video card is a G4TI4200.
|
| I hadn't played in an awful long time, but I recall this not being an issue in the past. Is there a MS hotfix that is known to
mess up AOE? Compatibility modes either crash, or in the case of 2000 will load the game but still have the same problems.
|
| Any ideas? I think I've covered all the standard stuff...
 
I was going to do your checklist, when I had one final idea. I did not mention that I have a two monitor setup. I disabled the secondary monitor, and disabled nView just to be safe, and everything ingame worked fine. I should have checked that much earlier... At the initial starting menu where you select single or multiplayer etc, my custom mouse cursor did have a black border around it, but that is probably a color depth or alpha layer that XP uses that AOK doesn't like, and it didn't effect the gameplay screen's mouse.

So I suppose you might want to add to your list something in regard to disabling secondary monitors (mine are at different refresh rates, too, so that is probably extra confusing for old games).
 
Glad you got your problem solved Gilgaron, and I want
to especially thank you for sharing the solution. :-) I'll
be sure to pass it on so others may also benefit.

Cheers,
Jimmy.

| I was going to do your checklist, when I had one final idea. I did not mention that I have a two monitor setup. I disabled the
secondary monitor, and disabled nView just to be safe, and everything ingame worked fine. I should have checked that much
earlier... At the initial starting menu where you select single or multiplayer etc, my custom mouse cursor did have a black border
around it, but that is probably a color depth or alpha layer that XP uses that AOK doesn't like, and it didn't effect the gameplay
screen's mouse.
|
| So I suppose you might want to add to your list something in regard to disabling secondary monitors (mine are at different refresh
rates, too, so that is probably extra confusing for old games).
 
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