Patched: Age of Empires 2 Conquerers

[gabsman]

For some first tests it runs great now! Everything functional on 1280x800.

Thanks a lot!!

[age4greeks]

Hi all,
nice job with the aoe-wide patch boekabart, you have somehow revive the game :D . It is a pleasure to see that there are lots of guys who still care about AoE2 too, great community.
Now, i was wondering if anyone has tried ATI's eyefinity at all, any "crazy" resolution like 2560*2048 and above for example? just for curiosity's sake!
Thanks, a greek fun :)

[Dom01]

Hey all

I have to say a big thank you to Boekbart for this! It is all very exciting! I have been wanting this for a year now as it is about the only old game I am interested in that I can’t get Widescreen. I play all these old games on my Netbook at 1024 X 600. Now I may be a bit of a dunce (its true) I am not sure how to go about installing this!

I get an error that “no original exe found for patch file”

Now I can see that u have to have quite a specific version of the game for this to work and tbh I have no idea what version I have! Is there a way to find out? I have no idea where my original disk is as I used a fixed exe for this game long long ago and put it in a back up folder with all my other old games.

I am looking at your DL page for the various files and there are a lot of files there and I have no idea what I need! I got the age2_x1.exe and replaced mine with it just in case and have the

AoW2Widesetup.msi &
AoE2Widesetup_r40.msi

Which should I have or what should I have. I f u could let me know which files I need that would be great!

Thank you for any help and information you can give me!

[Dom01]

Sorry for the quick post. This is the 4th time I have tried to get a message to appear here :( Patch threw out an error when patching but the batch file seems to work just fine! Thing is I am running the game on a Netbook in 1024 X 600 and I assumed (hoped) that I would not have teh grey box to the right of the map and top right of the screen as 1024 width was an original mode for the game. Can the be changed as in have the tool bars or what ever you call them in 1024 whilst using 1024 X 600 res?

Thank you in advance and a HIGE thank you for the patch and your help getting it working for everyone! This has been a long time coming and I had given up on it tbh! I think you sir!!!!!

[boekabart]

@Dom01: What you got was a warning, not an error ;) Usability issue on my part.
About your resolution issue: What I think you are saying is that you would like the 1024x768 resolution patched to 1024x600. While I think this should is possible (you'd have to change the source code a tiny bit), you'd actually get LESS area for the game screen: The bottom GUI part of the screen is a lot bigger in 1024x768 than it is in 800x600. So in your case, I'd advise you to use the 800x600 horizontally widened to 1024x600 (just as I do on my netbook, on which I don't play but just test). If I've misunderstood you, please make a screenshot of your current screen (prtscrn) and post a link to it here and explain again what your issue is.

[Ceaseless]

Wow this guy did something legendary if u ask me! I thought I'd never be able to play this game widescreen and I'm here to confirm that in the mist of RTS going to lala, our AoEII is finally in widescreen, thanks to boekabart! Someone also did a Total Annihilation Widescreen Mod also and there are the true RTS compared to today's CNC4 and others that went downhill - thanks to certain big companies.

Much thanks boekabart and thanks to widescreengamingforum for making a way for games to survive the screen format evolution! BTW, M$, AoE3 and its limits sux!

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[nitinsurya2]

Thanks Man. It worked great on 1.0 version of executable you have provided. I am now able to play on high resolution of 1920 X 1080. It's great to see so much in the big screen.

But its not able identify my 1.0c version of age2_x1. It says it does not match the size as expected. I have checked my cracked age2_x1.exe for version 1.0c. It's of size 2699264 bytes. However AoE2Wide_1.0c.patch has the size 2699309 bytes. That is why It's not patching my 1.0c version executable. Can you please help or provide original 1.0c version of age2_x1.exe also, on which we should run the patch?


Thanks again.

[MiGuLaS]

Is this patch compatible also with resolution 2048x1152?

[nitinsurya2]

Please ignore my question on 1.0c exe, as I downloaded the BSK version of 1.0c exe from net and it worked.

For those, who are facing the same problem...here is link to the BSK 1.0c version of age2_x1 exe with NO CD crack. You should copy this into AOE-2 main folder before runnning AoE2Wide exe for wide screen patch.

http://www.filecrop.com/4120367/index.html

Donated few bucks to your paypal account Boekabart. Too good a job you have done on this.

Thanks

[boekabart]

Can you please help or provide original 1.0c version of age2_x1.exe also, on which we should run the patch?

First of all, thank you for your donation! I'd like for you to send me your executable (rar-ed, boekabart at gmail.com) so that I can add support for it, is that ok?
As for obtainging 'my' version: It'd commonly called the "BsK" version, my best suggestion for you is Google for it, you'll find it. Easier even is to go to gamepark http://www.gamepark.eu/en/Game.asp?H=5 and download the 1.0e there (it's a trainer-disabled version of 1.0c), it's compatible out of the box. Good luck!

[Dom01]

Thsank you for teh reply! I see what you mean when you say 1024 would infact resultin less space! I played a few multi player games over the weekend which worked very well and no problems or crashes which I can not say the same for the Starcraft resolution expander. On my netbok anyway!

Brilliant work tho and thank you!

[de Bill]

Hello all, congratulations for perfect work to you, who created this patch. Works perfectly in that wide functions. I just have a QUESTION about the color palette fix under W7 and explorer.exe suspend. I like a lot this suspend mode. Much better than just kill and start explorer.exe again. BUT, it is still in batch file, so it is impossible to use this batch file for online games (GameRanger, Voobly etc.).

Please, is there any plan to implement this suspend function directly to the game executable file? Or maybe better to create very similar program to AocWin7.exe, which runs in background after the windows startup and is able to determine when the AOC starts, so he automatically kill the explorer and after AOC exit this program is automaticaly capable to run the explorer again. But instead of killing explorer it would be much more better just to suspend it with your function and "process.exe" program. Thanks to that Aocwin7.exe background process it is possible to play AOC online with the normal palette colors (but killing and starting the explorer again leads to disorder some of my icons in system tray).

Thanks for any reply,
good job again and congratulations!

[Ceaseless]

Is this patch compatible also with resolution 2048x1152?

Yessirrrrr!!

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[MiGuLaS]

Hello all, congratulations for perfect work to you, who created this patch. Works perfectly in that wide functions. I just have a QUESTION about the color palette fix under W7 and explorer.exe suspend. I like a lot this suspend mode. Much better than just kill and start explorer.exe again. BUT, it is still in batch file, so it is impossible to use this batch file for online games (GameRanger, Voobly etc.).

Please, is there any plan to implement this suspend function directly to the game executable file? Or maybe better to create very similar program to AocWin7.exe, which runs in background after the windows startup and is able to determine when the AOC starts, so he automatically kill the explorer and after AOC exit this program is automaticaly capable to run the explorer again. But instead of killing explorer it would be much more better just to suspend it with your function and "process.exe" program. Thanks to that Aocwin7.exe background process it is possible to play AOC online with the normal palette colors (but killing and starting the explorer again leads to disorder some of my icons in system tray).

Thanks for any reply,
good job again and congratulations!

Yes, i have same, maybe biger problem, i have now Windows 7 64-bit and when i start aoe with batch file (just for single player), game freeze several seconds up start.

[Paranoid]

My sincere congratulations, B! This message is to confirm that the game plays PERFECTLY at 2560 x 1600.

PS. Is there a method to donate other than PayPal?

[boekabart]

My sincere congratulations, B! This message is to confirm that the game plays PERFECTLY at 2560 x 1600.

PS. Is there a method to donate other than PayPal?

Not that I've arranged so far... any suggestions that are more convenient for you?

[greenhell666]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I love this game.
Now I can run it perfectly in 1600x900 and 1280x800

[Protolight]

It looks like Boekabart's site is down. Does anyone have another link where I can find this patch/program? Thanks

http://www.boekabart.net/aoe2wide <---down

[boekabart]

I've tried it from different locations (work, home) and it's not down. Does the DNS resolve? Did you try http://boekabart.dyndns.org/aoe2wide/ as alternative DNS to the same server? Any more people who have this problem?

[Protolight]

Ya, my bad. His site is up. I went to my local library this afternoon and it came up no problem. I have some screwball DNS look-up issue :? . Weird that this problem has only been his site..like...ever (7 yrs. with this set-up). I'll trouble-shoot this. Sorry about the post.
Boekabart was cool enough to respond to my email, check out the issue and on top of it sent me back the file I needed. :D Thanks, B. You da mang!