Widescreen Gaming Forum

@boekabart:

Man. Thank you very much for this patch. All I can say is that there's a LOT of people now reliving this great game in the HD era; and there's still a LOT of people who doesn't know about this.

I have read several pages of this thread. I will test this on my 1280 x 800 HP notebook. Now i just wat to give you some "bad news".

I live in Spain, I speak spanish. Just typing "AOEwide" on google, it shows me a result in the well known "Taringa.net" website. There's a guy usernamed "estuT" who is sharing YOUR work to all the hispanic comunity and claiming this so-waited fix is from HIS.

Maybe you or a lot of people with this kind of problems do nothing. And maybe if I didn't understand another language probably you wouldn't have noticed of this. But I did. So I denounced it and reported to the admin. I think this is the less I can do to thank you for your work.

Hope you keep up updating this "widescreen fixes", or maybe creating another ones for the well known old games like this (I'm trying to get a fully functional resolution hack for Starcraft Brood War. There are still bugs in campaign mode).

Greetings from Spain!

Ok.

Just to inform that I've just tested the patch. It's working perfect in my 1280 x 800 HP notebook (Windows 7). I had some complications with my aoe version. Downloaded the 1.0 version from boekabart (link in the first pages) and works perfectly.

Note: Terminate explorer.exe before playing if you don't want color issues.

I read a way to get rid of explorer.exe and start AOE widescreen at the same time crating a .bat file inside the main aoe's folder. It goes like this:

In the main folder of the program, create a .txt file and type this.

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1_1280x800.exe
Start explorer.exe

Save it, and now change its extension to ".bat"

Notice that you have to put the name of your aoe generated .exe from the patch (mine, "age2_x1_1280x800.exe" is written) in the text file.

Run it and it should kill explorer.exe and execute the aoe widescreen program.

If I recall correctly, my patcher creates exactly such a batch file in the game folder AND your desktop...

Can't find the post on taringa you mentioned, by the way, can you send(pm?) me a link?

bb

Ok.

Just to inform that I've just tested the patch. It's working perfect in my 1280 x 800 HP notebook (Windows 7). I had some complications with my aoe version. Downloaded the 1.0 version from boekabart (link in the first pages) and works perfectly.

Note: Terminate explorer.exe before playing if you don't want color issues.

I read a way to get rid of explorer.exe and start AOE widescreen at the same time crating a .bat file inside the main aoe's folder. It goes like this:

In the main folder of the program, create a .txt file and type this.

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1_1280x800.exe
Start explorer.exe

Save it, and now change its extension to ".bat"

Notice that you have to put the name of your aoe generated .exe from the patch (mine, "age2_x1_1280x800.exe" is written) in the text file.

Run it and it should kill explorer.exe and execute the aoe widescreen program.

Hi, could you help me?
I've the following problem, after copying widescreen files to my directory, I click the AoE2Wide and there is such a picture: and after this my game does't start at all, even in 800*600 :(.

Where is the problem?
Thank's.

The problem is the crappy output from the patcher :).
From the second screenshot I can see that the first run DID create a patched 1.0 executable. You should also have a batch file on your desktop now, AoC Wide 1920x1080 or so. It's also in your game folder, and there is a age2_x1_1.0_1920x1080.exe that you could run. IF you decide to not use the batch file, but the exe instead, make sure to go to OPTIONS immediately after starting the game, and changing the resolution first to 800x600 and then back to to highest value available (1280x1024 in your case) again. Then enjoy!

[quote]Hi, could you help me?
I've the following problem, after copying widescreen files to my directory, I click the AoE2Wide and there is such a picture: and after this my game does't start at all, even in 800*600 :(.

Where is the problem?
Thank's.

The problem is the crappy output from the patcher :).
From the second screenshot I can see that the first run DID create a patched 1.0 executable. You should also have a batch file on your desktop now, AoC Wide 1920x1080 or so. It's also in your game folder, and there is a age2_x1_1.0_1920x1080.exe that you could run. IF you decide to not use the batch file, but the exe instead, make sure to go to OPTIONS immediately after starting the game, and changing the resolution first to 800x600 and then back to to highest value available (1280x1024 in your case) again. Then enjoy!

I tried to start age2_x1_1.0_1920x1080.exe in my game directory, but nothing happens, at all.

I tried to start age2_x1_1.0_1920x1080.exe in my game directory, but nothing happens, at all.

Weird.. never saw anything like that happen before.
Did the batch files get created?

[quote]
I tried to start age2_x1_1.0_1920x1080.exe in my game directory, but nothing happens, at all.

Weird.. never saw anything like that happen before.
Did the batch files get created?

this evening i could check it.

Yes, there is the bat file on my desktop, but after starting it, I see this window which is being closed automaticly and the game doesn't start(((

Please try entering this into cmd.

cd (Your AOEII game dir)

age2_x1_1920x1080.exe 1280

TheWiz

I tried last night for 2 hours to get this to work with no luck. Could anyone post step by step detailed simple to understand instructions on getting this to run?. The game version is the gold edition patched to C.
I ran the installer last night and then ran the icon it put on my desktop and it said error....no exe for game found.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as i cant wait to run this in 1920x1200

Locating game main folder...
Located @'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft GamesAge of Empires II'
Locating Patch data file 'AoE2Wide*.patch'

Reading the patch file 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft GamesAge of Empires II
AoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0.patch'
Locating the correct original exe
Locating unpatched exe file 'age2_x1*.exe'
'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft GamesAge of Empires IIage2_x1age2_x1.exe' i
s not the expected size
Warning: No original exe found for patch file 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft
GamesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0.patch', skipping.

Reading the patch file 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft GamesAge of Empires II
AoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0c.patch'
Locating the correct original exe
Locating unpatched exe file 'age2_x1*.exe'
'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft GamesAge of Empires IIage2_x1age2_x1.exe' i
s not the expected size
Warning: No original exe found for patch file 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft
GamesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0c.patch', skipping.

Reading the patch file 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft GamesAge of Empires II
AoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0e.patch'
Locating the correct original exe
Locating unpatched exe file 'age2_x1*.exe'
'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft GamesAge of Empires IIage2_x1age2_x1.exe' i
s not the expected size
Warning: No original exe found for patch file 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft
GamesAge of Empires IIAoE2WideAoE2Wide_1.0e.patch', skipping.
Press any key to quit

I keep getting this error after running the patch. Im runnning gold edition{disk} patched to C. Could anyone please give me detailed simple instructions on what i need to do to get this to run?
Thanks..........

I keep getting this error after running the patch. Im runnning gold edition{disk} patched to C. Could anyone please give me detailed simple instructions on what i need to do to get this to run?
Thanks..........

You need to apply a NoCD patch - fresh installed from CD (or updated to 1.0c) cannot be patched, since the executable in encrypted.
Try finding the 1.0e patch.
BB

So does this mean i wont be able to play on gameranger with E?

So does this mean i wont be able to play on gameranger with E?

Sorry, no idea...

haha,It's so awesome that people are still playing this game in 2010.AOE rules!

Outstanding work. Looks amazing at 1920x1200. Thank you
Stronghold 1 needs something like this.

This works flawlessly in single player but ive had no luck in game ranger. Ive changed over the AoC1.0c 1920x1200 to age2_x1 but when i start a game im only getting the stock resolutions.
Any help?

Greetings!

Im one of thoose players who still plays aoe2 online.
We play this game by voobly (google voobly.com). Does this patch also work with voobly client?

For playing age of empires 2 conquerors you need a voobly client... this client then hosts the game and runs the game... is it possible when voobly runs the game (probably it runs the age2_x1.exe which is patched with final version (1.0e i think) soo the game would be in my desktop resolution?

Hi,

thanks for your work, its awesome to see that people still commit to TC in 2010!

So, I've installed the latest .msi file. It creates the appropriate .exe (for my 1280x800 screen). I can launch a game, BUT, I still have pink on grass and water.

Any idea what could fix this? (run options, right clicking on exe, etc ?)

Thanks a lot!

Hi,

thanks for your work, its awesome to see that people still commit to TC in 2010!

So, I've installed the latest .msi file. It creates the appropriate .exe (for my 1280x800 screen). I can launch a game, BUT, I still have pink on grass and water.

Any idea what could fix this? (run options, right clicking on exe, etc ?)

Thanks a lot!

Run the BAT not the exe. And Read, next time ;)