AOE II expansion pack w/vista

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I have installed vista home premium - which works fine. The conquerors (AOE)
expansion does not run correctly - very poor graphics. I am using the MS
supplied driver with my x1300 visiontech card. If I try the newer drivers
vista doesnt run except in the basic mode. I've uninstalled and installed to
no avail. Any suggestions?
 
The graphics with the Microsoft drivers is always going to be substandard.
You need to use the ATI 7.1 or 7.2 drivers. If you're OS is refusing to
accept those drivers, then you've got a bigger problem, then the game not
working.

I'm a little confused by what you mean, runs in Basic mode. Do you mean Safe
Mode or Aero doesn't work ?

All I can say is, it should work and it's a problem if it doesn't. I've ran
both the7.1 and 7.2s and I haven't run across any problems yet.
 
Thanks Dale - By basic mode I mean w/o the aero interface. I struggled w/
the Visiontech drivers, but the video performance was 1.0. When I
re-installed the MS drivers the Aero interface worked and graphics
performance climbed to 3.0. AOE kings works alright at 800x600 res. but when
the res. is changed the graphics drop to an unacceptable level. The card has
plenty of guts but the driver seems to be the problem.
 
Though sometimes you loose some special functions, I pretty much use the
drivers straight from ATI. Looking at the website, looks like they rolled
the drivers into 1 big download with both 32 and 64bit support. At least
they are the 7.2s

But I would still recommend going to http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
and using the base reference drivers and seeing if they work first.
 
If he just said he struggled getting the Visiontek drivers to work, why
would you point him to the visiontek drivers ?
 
I think his spelling was visiontech and not visiontek, and I was wondering
if he couldn't find the correct drivers. Does that answer your question?
 
I bought a Diamond Radeon X1300 PCI video card so that I could run Aero. I
installed Vista and upgraded the graphics driver from (?). I find that
performance degrades and I get warnings. My rating is a 2.0. Where should I
get the optimal driver for running Aero? Thanks guys!
 
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