Widescreen Gaming Forum

Found a solution that worked for me....

You have to go into the -

?: Documents and SettingsMy DocumentsMy GamesAge of Empires 3 TrialUsers

...folder, and find the NewProfile.xml file. Open it in WordPad, or NotePad or whatever. Find the line - optiongrfxres, and look at the res there ...

Hmmmm...I just tried that, and I still get the error. :( I have a 20" Apple CD...so my res is 1680x1050 as well. But I still get the error.

Getting an error while starting the game...

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