Patched: Age of Empires 2 Conquerers

[antiflag]

Hey boekabart,

So i deinstalled my complete game. then i run the istall exe from the disc and installed the Age of empires 2 full. After this i Installed The Conquerrors patch and the 1.0e patch. Now i´ve donloaded your age2_x1.exe, the aoe2wide.dat and the aoe2wide.exe and copy it into the main folder of Age of empires 2.
my desktop resolution is maxumim 1600x900 and i startet the aoe2wide.exe
The patch run succsesfuly and he created a aoe2_x1_1600x900.exe
when i run this exe, Aoe2 conquerrors starts and then in standart game the resolution is on 1024x768. What can i do now to have a 1280x1024 resolution in the game?

thanky a lot, antiflag

[boekabart]

As the patcher says, 1600x900 is a patch for 1024x768 (since I cannot (yet) shrink images yet.
So in the game you'd have to select 1024x768, 1280x1024 is probably greyed out.
By the way I've just tested this here (1600x1000 in fact), and doesn't work very well yet.

So far, only 1280x1024 and larger is supported.... sorry for that. Maybe I should do the shrinking support quickly....

I cannot test 13XX x 768 here, my PC doesn't support this resolution, and I can't make out anything in your screenshot unfortunately.

[stibaer]

I wonder about one thing. The patch works just great, besides a little thing.
In the water are on some areas purple pixles and on land areas of red ones mixed in in the normal colors.
If I take a screenshot, the screenshot is clean and doesnt have those.
How to get rid of those purple and red pixels ingame?
Should I sent pictures?
Will have to get my digicam to take a picture of my screen.

[boekabart]

Added shrink support for the images.

Now everything 1280 and wider will be done by patching 1280x1024.
Tested: 1280x960, 1440x900.
NOT working: 1280x800, 1366x768 I don't know why yet.

[k0nfa]

Patiently waiting for your magic =)

cheers!

[antiflag]

Ok here i am, again ;)

is it possible than anybody with a 1680x1050 resolution can patch aoe2 and give me the aoe2_x1_1680x1050 and the 16801050.drs ?
now i want to try with rivatuner or something sike that to enforce a higher resolution as it is possible on windows. then run the exe, and hope that it fits.

[Anubis]

Hello boekabart,

First of all, I want to thank you for attempting to make AoC widescreen. It's sorely needed as the AoC community is still strong (@ Voobly has 500+ members playing AoC DAILY).

I seem to have a problem though. The patch is not successfully creating a new .exe. Instead, I see this error:



I'm not exactly what I'm doing wrong. I downloaded and installed that latest .NET Frame (3.5). I also downloaded your latest AoE2Wide.exe and AoE2Wide.dat files and put them in the C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesAge of Empires IIage2_x1 folder. Lastly, I used your age2_x1.exe version. But it is still saying I am missing the interfac.drs file, even though I have it.

I would be forever grateful if you pointed me the correct direction =).

p.s. Would it also be possible to make a 1980x1080 version of the patch? 1080p resolution is the standard resolution for digital movies, and also many monitor's native resolutions. It would so awesome to use this resolution. Again, thank you very much.

[boekabart]

@stibaer : Probably Vista / Windows 7 messing up your palette, not related to the patch?

@Anubis : The instructions state that it should all be put in the game MAIN folder, not the age2_x1 folder. My age2_x1 exe runs fine from the main folder. I'll add support for '..Data' checking in a future release, however.
@Anubis : You should be able to make ANY resolution patch if you copy age2_x1.exe to the main folder, move AoE2Wide.* there and run it. Let me know if not!

[boekabart]

Update:

I've made the patcher a bit more usable. It can now (but doesn't have to) be put in (and run from) any subfolder of the main game directory, together with the dat file if you please. It will search 'upwards' for the main gamefolder. My age2_x1.exe can be in either the main folder or age2_x1, whatever you prefer, and you can give its name a suffix (e.g. age2_x1_1.0c_nocd.exe or age2_x1_pre_widescreen.exe or so) so you can recognize it (and not use it if you want to play online 1.0e). The patcher will find and recognize it (by name, size and MD5 checksum).

Also, I've gotten rid of the pinkyness: I think I figured out how to repeat the last pixel on the line until the end of it. Not perfect, but a lot better (especially in the top of the screen!).
Also the Slp patcher code has been cleaned up a lot, and i've changed the vertical stretching method so it's not so very obvious (almost invisible!) anymore in e.g. the 'save' screen.

Widescreen resolutions 1280 and wider, and somewhere-between-800-and-900 and higher work (1440x900 does, 1280x800 or 1280x720 don't).

Always The Latest Patcher Binary: http://boekabart.dyndns.org/aoe2wide/latestpatcher/
Feel free to browse http://boekabart.dyndns.org/aoe2wide/, it contains everything so far including source tarballs and the HG/mercurial repository.
http://boekabart.dyndns.org/aoe2wide/donepatches/ contains applied patches for 1440x900, 1600x1050, 1920x1080 and 1920x1200. Extract to game main folder and go!

Screeny (1440x900):

[boekabart]

Good News: Now everything wider than 1023 works, that includes 1152 864, 1280x720, 1280x800, 1440x900 and so. Did so by finding out all the relevant resolutions for 1024x768 as source, and fixed the scaling-down-limit-bug.

[SOliver1988]

Hey,
first the patch works really fine.
But I can't build a dock in the game!?
Does anyone have the same problem?

[FatJacky]

I just pulled out my AOE2 disc for the first time in 6 years! Holy crap guys, this is amazing.

I know this must be troubling to ask, but is there anyway you can get this patch working for vanilla AOE2? My friends and I don't have the expansion. I would love you the rest of my life!

[stibaer]

Ingame it looks this way. I made this picture with my handy.


If I take a screenshot it looks like this. (picture was taken with the older widepatch, but same error with new Version of patch. I also installed AoE2 + Conquerors ceompletely new and patched it, but same graphic bugs.)


Could the purple and red pixels be, because I have got Windows 7 Release Candidate ?
A mate used my installation of the game on his computer and he didnt have the graphic errors.
There was even a single time, when the game worked without the graphic errors.

Is Win7 Release Canidate at fault and it runs without errors on the Full version?

Got Win 7 here on as full version on dvd, but didnt install it yet, because the Release Candidate worked fine until now.

[boekabart]

Ingame it looks this way.

It's a Win7 problem, also retail won't help you. There are rumors that killing of explorer.exe before running the game helps, but I haven't been able to confirm this. personally, I haven'
t been able to get local lan networking to work in win7....

[stibaer]

thx a lot boekabart.

This hint realy worked :)

If I shoot down the explorer before or even after starting the game, the colors ingame are normal :)

If I start the explorer again, before or after the game is started, the graphic errors are there again.

So the solution is simple: While playing AoE2-Conquerors HighRes just shoot the windows explorer down with the taskManager and let it be killed while playing Aoe2 and the graphic keeps nice :P

[Cornettes]

boekabart i was to first of all thank you! Second of all you should have a donations link or something because i would gladly give you some money for the time you have spent on this.

I am running windows vista 64 bit. currently i have downloaded the 1.0c patch and i am running a noCD patch

after following your directions it still wont work. when i run the file i get this...



i would appreciate any help you may be able to provide.

here is a screenshot of what i have in each file folder
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/8807/files1.png
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7751/files2.png

I am not sure where to go from here, tomorrow i am going to uninstall everything and start over and see if that helps.

I WANT TO PAY YOU FOR YOUR WORK.....it may not be much but i want to because if i can get this to work your my new hero!!

[Cornettes]

First of all, i want to thank boekabart!!! You are my new HERO!

Second, once i hopefully get this to work i would like to send you a few bucks to thank you for the time you have spent on this. After all, time is money.

Now i am running windows 7, 64bit, my monitors resolution can get to 1680x1050. I have followed your directions and it wont work. I must be doing something wrong somewhere. I am running a no-CD patch that might be messing things up. Tomorrow i am going to re-install everything and start from scratch and see if that helps. There was a fella that posted a little earlier that has a very similar problem. If you could help me out, well it would be much appreciated.

here are some screenshots to help you understand my problem.
This is the message i get after i click the "age2_x1 1680x1050" link or whatever
http://img17.imageshack.us/i/errormessage2n.png/
This is the message i get after trying to run the "AoE2Wide" link or whatever (i guess its a exe?)
http://img14.imageshack.us/i/errormessage1e.png/
And these are both screenshots of what my folders look like
http://img710.imageshack.us/i/files2.png/
http://img96.imageshack.us/i/files1.png/

THANKS SOOO MUCH and dont forget email me at [email protected] so you can send me an payment request invoice! :)

p.s. why hasn't MC made a complete update of the game so we dont have to do this shit anymore??? i guess you cant fix stupid......

[boekabart]

@All: It seems my exe is an old, patched 1.0, not even 1.0c. I will port the DAT file to 1.0c or 1.0e as soon as possible!

@Cornettes:
The patcher won't work because you didn't put the DAT file in the age2_x1 folder, but a shortcut to it. That won't work. Make sure the DAT file is there.
Second of all, I don't see 'my' age2_x1.exe (the correct version that is supported now) in your folders. You can put it anywhere, make a folder WideScreen or so (within the aoe2 folder) so that it doesn't interfere with your normal exes. The patcher will find it.
Then run it, and I'm quite sure it will work. Why the prepatched version won't work, I don't know...

@ All: Of course, I'm more than happy to receive donations to support my work. PayPal: [email protected] !

Last but not least, I've installed XP which supports Stretching 2 monitors (7 doesn't, anymore), which allowed me to test this:

wOOt!!!
Vertical resolutions larger than 1536 are not supported yet because of the way the vertical stretching works, by the way!

[Cornettes]

@boekabart Thank you! I uninstalled everything and reinstalled everything. now the patch will run but when i open age of empires i still have black on both sides and it is not in 1680x1050.exe I must be doing something little wrong somewhere. Which .exe do i run? the 1680x1050.exe or the AoE2_x1.exe?

here are screenshot updates
my files:
http://img192.imageshack.us/i/files1.png/
http://img254.imageshack.us/i/files2.png/
http://img229.imageshack.us/i/files3.png/
http://img192.imageshack.us/i/files4.png/
http://img29.imageshack.us/i/files5.png/

[FatJacky]

Boekebart. I and several of my friends will contribute funds as well :D

Were you able to address my post above about doing this for non-expansion pack AOE2?