could not load DATAP.BAR error

[FERDİ BABA]

I bought Age of Empires® III: Complete Collection to my friend and i sent gift to him. He dowloaded game and click play but this error appears. what is this?

[Its_Ollie]

yeah i found that too, but i'm not sure what to do about it hence why i made this post in hopes someone knows

[Its_Ollie]

Anyone found anything?

[Mouse Lover]

引用自 wolster14：

Anyone found anything?

I found a way around the issue.

You will have to play from the direct game.exe cause Steam launcher is giving the data.bar issues.

You can find the game on:

Steam / Steamapps / Common / Age of Empires 3 / Bin

Just play each of the games:
AOE 3 the first game= age3.exe (with the colonial hat icon)
AOE 3 war chiefs = age3x.exe (the arrow icon )
AOE 3 Dinasty = age3y.exe (Samurai helmet icon)

Sadly the cd key will ONLY work on the first game if you wish to play without using Steam launcher.

But you can find the other 2 keys on the internet.
[ Wish I could share the keys, but you know steam stupid rules, even if it's the only bloody fix. ]

Dunno if it will work for online play, I play mostly solo but I am sure you can make an account using the Steam key and it should work even if you are using other keys to make it run cause microsoft cant fix their crap (I could be wrong on this, again I only play solo).

Please let me know if it works for you. Cause at least this worked for me.

[Its_Ollie]

This sorted it thank you so much mate!!!

[EDCAlberto]

引用自 Bloodletting Finale：

引用自 wolster14：

Anyone found anything?

I found a way around the issue.

You will have to play from the direct game.exe cause Steam launcher is giving the data.bar issues.

You can find the game on:

Steam / Steamapps / Common / Age of Empires 3 / Bin

Just play each of the games:
AOE 3 the first game= age3.exe (with the colonial hat icon)
AOE 3 war chiefs = age3x.exe (the arrow icon )
AOE 3 Dinasty = age3y.exe (Samurai helmet icon)

Sadly the cd key will ONLY work on the first game if you wish to play without using Steam launcher.

But you can find the other 2 keys on the internet.
[ Wish I could share the keys, but you know steam stupid rules, even if it's the only bloody fix. ]

Dunno if it will work for online play, I play mostly solo but I am sure you can make an account using the Steam key and it should work even if you are using other keys to make it run cause microsoft cant fix their crap (I could be wrong on this, again I only play solo).

Please let me know if it works for you. Cause at least this worked for me.

I can confirm you that it doesn't work for online, at least I was capable of having some fun with the campaings and the skirmish mode, but I'm unable of playing in ESO, it doesn't allow me to charge the internal launcher

[chit_guy]

do someone have a easy way to fix that? i dont know anything of how to do these things you guy are saying, and i just want to play the game

[EDCAlberto]

引用自 chit_guy：

do someone have a easy way to fix that? i dont know anything of how to do these things you guy are saying, and i just want to play the game

auuu man, I had this issue like three years ago when I installed it and I barely remember it, I can recall I had to do new files for the expansions and then have to look somewhere for a code of product for Warchiefs and Asian Dynasties, and then I was able to use the expansions.

The file was kinda weird, I copyied all the common stuff from AoE3 and then copy in the folders of W, AD. I have to even write some from zero to get it working