Widescreen Gaming Forum

Thank you for the awesome work on getting widescreen working in Age Of Empires. I do have one problem though. When I want to play multiplayer it will display the hosting game but when I click join to play it will always time out. I'm guessing because I have different resolutions creating differect exe's on each computer must be the case? If I use the original GCW exe I can connect and play without issue...well, besides no widescreen of course. I'm wondering if there is anything that can be done or should they be working? I have 1920x1200 on one screen, 1680x1050 on the other and I have a normal 1280x1024 on the third. The widescreen patch works fine to play single player. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, guys.
I am experiencing a big issue about AOC.
First of all,
I opened the AOE II, I can open it and play it perfectly.
That's a great thing.
After that,
I tried the AOC one, I double clicked it and a black screen comes out.
I thought I know what's happened.
So, I tuned the compacity to Win XP2-3, resolution ratio to 4:3, 16-bit colours, closed the explorer.exe and so on.
None of them can help.
I searched on google and plenty of players have the same question.
I listened one of them to set the resolution to 1024x800.
It succeed once.
After that, I can't do it again.
So, I know the problem is about resolution.
I searched on google again and found your website.
I downloaded your software and tried.
Still can't fix it.
So, what can I do now?
I know that you guys know how to solve the problems.
Can you help me, Boekabart?

I can describe it more.
I double click the age2_x1.exe.
After the video, it should go to the game menu, but it doesn't.
The screen comes black.
Windows say it is a crash, and you need to close the program.
Thats all.

My computer runs with Windows 7 Home Edition, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
Intel Core i5 CPU, and run on 1920x1680 HD normally.

Thanks Boekabart anyway.
You gave me a hope.

Sorry, can't help... Problem doesn't sound familiar to me

Sorry, can't help... Problem doesn't sound familiar to me

Um... anyway, thanks for your reply.

Sorry to bother you guys, but I'm having a little trouble with this.

How would I set it up to run fullscreen on 1366x768? I'm a bit of an idiot when it comes to things like this.

Hi boekabart,

Many thanks for this patch, however I am having a few problems.

I have done the following:

1. Installed Age of Empires 2,
2. Installed Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors,
3. Applied 1.0c Patch
4. Used a NOCD crack (first tried to use DEViANCE crack and then BSK crack - from Megagames)
5. Ran your AoE2Wide.exe and am getting the following error:

Locating game main folder...
Located @'F:Program FilesAge of Empires II'
Locating Patch data file 'AoE2Wide*.patch'

Reading the patch file 'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0.patch'
Locating the correct original exe
Locating unpatched exe file 'age2_x1*.exe'
'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIage2_x1age2_x1.exe' is not the expected size
Warning: No original exe found for patch file 'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0.patch', skipping.

Reading the patch file 'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0c.patch'
Locating the correct original exe
Locating unpatched exe file 'age2_x1*.exe'
'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIage2_x1age2_x1.exe' doesn't meet the expected hashcode '7C-86-BC-64-6D-03-B8-C7-CF-20-5
-C9-77-B3-A8-5E' instead of 'F2-72-38-DF-A1-C3-EC-44-41-52-C8-5F-01-AF-30-A0'
Warning: No original exe found for patch file 'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0c.patch', skipping.

Reading the patch file 'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0e.patch'
Locating the correct original exe
Locating unpatched exe file 'age2_x1*.exe'
'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIage2_x1age2_x1.exe' doesn't meet the expected hashcode '7C-86-BC-64-6D-03-B8-C7-CF-20-5
-C9-77-B3-A8-5E' instead of 'CB-15-BC-FA-FF-FB-C3-BA-80-F3-07-D4-1F-50-E5-46'
Warning: No original exe found for patch file 'F:Program FilesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0e.patch', skipping.
Press any key to quit

I assume it's a problem with the NO CD crack. Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated.

NOTE: That both your DYNDNS and Hosted Websites are down and not working. Well at least from the UK they are. Therefore I have had to get your patch from AoCZone website.

I have the following files:

AoE2Wide.exe
AoE2Wide.exe.config
AoE2Wide.RootPatch
AoE2Wide_1.0.patch
AoE2Wide_1.0c.patch
AoE2Wide_1.0e.patch
Process.exe

I got the same error, but then i saw the .bat file on the "...Microsoft GamesAge of Empires II" folder and The conquerors expansion started fine when I executed it.

Now im trying to run the Age of Kings (the original AoE2) in widescreen. Does anybody knows how to do so? :(

I have errors in the cmd window as well but it creates a bat file on my desktop and it works...

Hi guys, I've downloaded the version posted by "iNCQRiT" in the 21 page and tried to play AoE The Age of Kings.
I tried to change the resolution parameters in the "config.xml" file and it didn't work. It seems that AoE is forced to run at 1280x1024 resolution. So, does anybody know how to force it to another resolution or a way to play Age of Kings in 1280x800 res?

I just wanted to play the Age of Kings Campaings :cry:

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