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1. Age of empires 2 hd resolution problem install#
2. Age of empires 2 hd resolution problem upgrade#
3. Age of empires 2 hd resolution problem full#
4. Age of empires 2 hd resolution problem Pc#

If I reran RefreshForce and chose "Restore Original Settings" (effectively clearing all the mode information that RefreshForce had determined and set), the problem went away HL2 ran fine and would automatically determine the optimal refresh rate (which was higher than the usual default of 60Hz seen in older games in XP).

Age of empires 2 hd resolution problem full#

Make sure you grab the latest version from Oracle/VirtualBox themselves, as if you’re using a distribution version their latest version in the distribution repositories may not be as up-to-date.Īfter installing/upgrading VirtualBox, adjust your virtual machine to be using 3D Acceleration and give it the full 256MB video memory.I noticed recently that, after running RefreshForce to fix the 60Hz-refresh-in-games issue in XP, Half-Life 2 started exiting abruptly with an error about not being able to set video modes.

Age of empires 2 hd resolution problem upgrade#

In order to avoid any nasty surprises, you must upgrade to the absolutely latest upstream version (at time of writing, this was 4.2.12-84980). Generally I’m not a fan of Segfaults on my system. ShCrOpenGL: segfault at 7fd40d7c3f90 ip 00007fd3f47c2f9d spĠ0007fd3f4a8ba90 error 4 in VBoxSharedCrOpenGL.so The stability of this feature is also rapidly changing – after turning everything on and running the game, I was causing the VM to crash entirely on the Linux OS-side. For more advance 3D features, a module is available, but needs to be specifically selected during the installation as it’s not “stable” yet.

Age of empires 2 hd resolution problem install#

The issue was that the level of 3D acceleration being provided by VirtualBox was too low – this was easily verified by running “dxdiag” utility.īy default, Virtualbox delivers DirectDraw Acceleration but not Direct3D.īy default if you enable 3D acceleration and install the Guest Additions, the acceleration is limited to just the stable basic features. I was worried about my Intel GPU being too poor as some posts suggested, but thankfully even the Intel GPUs from a few years ago are enough to play this game.

The forums discuss a range of issues for this, but the general consensus is that with the move to a newer DirectX, the game would fail if some of the newer features were absent (eg shaders). I had tested the old AOE 2 original game in my VM which ran OK, but after AOE 2 HD was installed, I found the newer game would refuse to start with: Error on start, subcode=1 Instead I have a Windows 7 VM inside VirtualBox which is a very good virtualisation product for desktop users offering easy management of VMs, good guest OS integration (eg desktop resizing) and also basic 3D acceleration.

Age of empires 2 hd resolution problem Pc#

Now as a Linux geek I used to have a dedicated Windows PC hanging around for gaming – however with my move to AU, I now only have my Linux laptop and I wasn’t very keen to go back to a dual-booting world, having last done dual boot over 5 years ago. Recently Microsoft re-released AOE 2 as “Age of Empires 2 HD” on steam, taking the opportunity to fix up the above issues and port the game to newer DirectX versions and adding in Steam support providing better multiplayer support. Whilst AOE 2 still ran on modern Windows, the game was showing it’s age with issues like hard coded resolutions (800×600 or 1024×768 anyone?), assumption of an optical media drive for the music to be loaded from and dated multiplayer functions. I started playing it back as a young noobling on Windows 98 with a Celeron 433mhz machine and loved the perfect balance the game achieved between simplicity and flexibility.ĪOE 2 offered a large number of different civilisations with different research options, yet once you learnt the basics, it was quick and easy to pick up the rest and run with it – generally it made for a very fun game, both against the AI but also against friends multiplayer over a 10mbit LAN. It’s been a few years since I’d last played it, but Age of Empires is still one of my all time favourite games.