Age of Empires II Gold Edition Windows XP issues

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Age of Empires II Gold Edition Windows XP issues

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Hello everyone,

I hhave recently come into a copy of AoE II . I installed the game on my laptop (running on Windows XP SP3).

I install the game and its expansion with no problems.

When I start the expansion, the text on the main menu is not displayed. If I select to create a custom game, the screen text is displayed but in the wron areas (instead of being in the middle of a button for example, the text is moved downward)

The original game works with no peoblem, these display problems only occur when playing the expansion
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check for updates for said expansion?
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Tried that, 1.0c still exhibits the problems.
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Update your laptop's video drivers perhaps?

Maybe try "Disabling Visual Themes"
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Post by odditude »

google says possible font problems. double-check all required fonts are installed.

if any of the standard windows fonts are missing/corrupted, this can cause the issue.
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Any idea which fonts could be missing/corrupted? Or how to tell?

@Deathlike: I'll try your suggestion to see if it fixes the problem
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Deathlike2 wrote:Update your laptop's video drivers perhaps?

Maybe try "Disabling Visual Themes"
AoEIII is a MS game released in '05 - there aren't going to be any Luna-related issues.
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odditude wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:Update your laptop's video drivers perhaps?

Maybe try "Disabling Visual Themes"
AoEIII is a MS game released in '05 - there aren't going to be any Luna-related issues.
Except that this is AOE 2
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did AoEII have more than one expansion?
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Not from what I've seen. Why?
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Lord Alpha wrote:Except that this is AOE 2
ah. reading fail. sorry.
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Post by funkyass »

I wonder... you got a font called Trebuchet MS?
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Post by Hyos »

I have googled it and it seems a few people had the same problem, although no definite solution. They reported that reinstalling does not help. Only suggestion I found worth mentioning was installing the MS XML Service Pack

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

but I don't know anything about the game and if it will really help.
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@Deathlike: Your suggestion didn't work

@funkyass: Yes, why?

@Hyos: Thanks, I'll try that
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Post by BIGBOB »

I also have this exact problem

Im wondering if an update caused the problem, I previously ran this game on this comp with no problem. I recently re-installed and I have the exact saem problem. AOE2 works fine, expansion doesnt....drop down menus blank and some text layers missing or misplaced.

opening some scenarios give me a screen but no accessible buttons, strange resolution what seems to be extremely low. huge blown up corner of screen. other scenarios just make the program crash.

compatibility program doesnt change anything. the only thing I changed is i run mcafee antivirus which i didnt before.
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Post by Lord Alpha »

I'm still having this problem, unfortunately.
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