Problem with Age of Empires II

"ricco4" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Olórin;764843 Wrote:
>> "ricco4" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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>> > > i need it, post it again please
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>> <hits Ctrl-Enter instead of Ctrl-End first time...>
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>> What the dickens are you on about??? You've snipped out all the
>> history of
>> this thread so all it sounds like is, based on the subject line, that
>> you
>> want a problem posting....
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> oh sorry, i'm spanish and i haven't understand you
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> i have the same problem as everyone, i have a new toshiba laptop with a
> ati mobility radeon hd2600 with all ok, new drivers, last directx and
> all these things, i have tried a lot of things, i have searched the
> problem in three different languages in google for more results but
> nothing, everytime the same message, so what can we do? i hope i have
> tell all correctly
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> ricco4

What to do? For a start, tell us WHAT the problem is! "The same problem as
everyone" is, you'll have to admit, rather all-encompassing....

my problem is when i run age of empires ii, a message says "Could not
initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver
are compatible with DirectDraw"


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ricco4

nothing?


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ricco4

"ricco4" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> nothing?
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> ricco4

It would help if you didn't snip out your original post, containing details
of the problem:

"my problem is when i run age of empires ii, a message says "Could not
initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are
compatible with DirectDraw""

Just to post "nothing?" is begging to be ignored....

I don't run Vista but like lurking in this group just for kicks.... My
immediate thought would be: well, have you checked that your video card and
driver are compatible with DirectDraw?

I had this same problem. It is some conflict between the game and the
video card driver. The game is mis-reporting it as a DirectDraw issue
because it's an older piece of software that doesn't know what the
problem is.

I'm using a Toshiba laptop and downloaded a third-party driver at
tweakforce.com because Toshiba doesn't provide any updated drivers for
my nVidia card model (Geforce Go 7300). The link for the WinXP version
is: http://www.tweakforce.com/modules.ph...nload&cid=1 5

It seems to be fine in general and runs the game OK.

I had this same problem. It is some conflict between the game and the
video card driver. The game is mis-reporting it as a DirectDraw issue
because it's an older piece of software that doesn't know what the
problem is.

I'm using a Toshiba laptop and downloaded a third-party driver at
tweakforce.com because Toshiba doesn't provide any updated drivers for
my nVidia card model (Geforce Go 7300). The link for the WinXP version
is: http://www.tweakforce.com/modules.ph...nload&cid=1 5

It seems to be fine in general and runs the game OK.