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#Age of empires 2 resolution fix install
#Age of empires 2 resolution fix Patch

The background and especially the Load/Save dialogs don't look good yet due to the way the images are stretched now.The vertical position of the 'the Conquerers' overlay is incorrect.

The vertical position during recorded game playback seems incorrect.

Only expansion pack (The Conquerors) works at the moment.

If you name the executables, for example, age2_x1_1.0e.exe and age2_x1_1.0c.exe, the 'suffix' will appear back in the patched-exe and shortcut names. Little note about the support for different versions: If you have multiple versions alongside each other, AoE2Wide will find them all (all supported, that is) and create multiple patched exes, one for each version. Note that it will not overwrite any original files, nor abuse the elevation for something else.

UAC: AoE2Wide.exe now requests elevation, and is therefore able to write directly to the game folder.

#Age of empires 2 resolution fix Patch

Also, on Vista an win7, this will try to kill explorer.exe before the game, and start it again afterwards, in order to fix the palette issue (which is not a patch issue, by the way).

AoE2Wide creates a batch file in the game folder and the desktop that allows you to easily start a widescreen version of the game, without having to check the resolution in the options screen all the time.

Fixed vertical position of top-left text.

Support for vertical resolutions higher than 1536 (I think unlimited).

No support for version without expansion pack (yet).

Support for 1.0c and 1.0e executables.

Preview, click to enlarge (1440x900, 1680x2100): Sadly, besides being able to play the game at a high resolution, the Age of Empires 2: HD Edition doesnt bring that many new improvements over the original title that came out in the early 2000s. Use "AoC1.0c 1280x1024.bat" (or "AoC1.0e 1280x1024.bat") icons that appeared on your desktop for starting the game (note that 1280x1024 will be replaced with the resolution of your monitor). Double click "AoE2Wide" icon that appeared on your desktop.

#Age of empires 2 resolution fix install

Installation: Unpack the file, and install "AoE2WideSetup.msi". So you play in 1690×1020, 1920×1080, 1368×768, etc.This patch is obsolete, for the same (and more) functionality please use UserPatch (for compatibility with 1.0c recorded games please check the enhanced 1.0c mode). You can use this tool even if you only have one monitor.The tool spits out a special EXE that runs the game in your current resolution. Patch your game using this awesome utility.(I was only able to do this with my nVidia card, but if your ATI cards support EyeFinity, that should work too.) Configure your graphics card to merge the two displays into one wide one.Fortunately, a GamersMint reader by the name of Martin has come up with a solution.Īlthough the solution below does create some strange behavior with the HUD (head up display) as seen in the picture below, you can use the following instructions to play AoE 2 in high resolution and even on dual monitors (shown below). While I have spent countless hundreds of hours playing AoE2, the lack of high resolution support is a bit of pain, especially on the high resolution monitors that are available today compared to when the game came out. One of my all time favorite (and arguably one of the best) RTS games is Age of Empires II.