Master Fixes for Age of Darkness: Final Stand

[AlexPlaySide]

If you are running into any issues with the game, please try all the workarounds below to see if one of them solves your issue. Also, please look for any existing threads that might cover your issue before starting a new one. Thanks!

Update Your Video Card Drivers

This is the most common cause for people's inability to run the game, particularly on PC.

First check your driver version using this method and make sure your drivers are recent:

• For AMD cards, download the AMD Adrenalin which you can find here:
  
  https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/drivers.html
  
  
• For NVidia cards, go to this page and download the appropriate drivers for your card by providing the correct information:
  
  http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
  
  If you have an NVidia GeForce card, you can also download and install the GeForce Experience to update your cards through that:
  
  http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience

Always make sure you reboot your machine after installing the drivers, just to be safe. Then try relaunching the game.

Laptop users should force their Nvidia/AMD cards

Use the Nvidia Control Panel or AMD Adrenalin to force the game to use your built in GPU instead of the Intel one

This guide should help you depending on your video card:

http://www.howtogeek.com/175281/how-to-force-graphics-options-in-pc-games-with-nvidia-amd-or-intel-graphics/

Try running both Steam and Achilles.exe as administrator

• Go to c:\program files\steam\
  
• Right click ->Properties on steam.exe
  
• Click the Compatibility tab
  
• Check "Run this program as an administrator

Then try doing it for the Achilles.exe

• Go to \steamapps\common\Age of Darkness - Final Stand
  
• Right click ->Properties on Achilles.exe
  
• Click the Compatibility tab
  
• Check "Run this program as an administrator

Reinstall VCRedist

Go to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2019

And re-run both the vcredist_x64.exe and the vcredist_x86.exe

Then reboot your computer

Reinstall DirectX

Go To

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist\DirectX\Jun2010

Run DXSETUP.exe

Then reboot your computer

Verify the Integrity of the Game Cache

If you have tried all of these workarounds, and are still having trouble running the game, or if there are other obvious missing elements to the game (such as missing fonts), validate that all of the files are actually installed properly:

• Go to your Steam Library
  
• Right click -> Properties on Age of Darkness: Final Stand
  
• Click the "Installed Files" tab
  
• Click on the "Verify Integrity of Game Cache..." button

Please Provide As Much Detail As Possible

It's important for the devs to know what your system specs are if they are to troubleshoot issue. Try to put a baseline information such as

OS:
Video Card:
CPU:

You can also go to the Steam Client and go to
Steam-Help-System Information

That window has a lot of technical stuff about your system that can help the devs identify things

Also when describing your problem be as descriptive as possible. They'll need to recreate your problem so more details is always better. Adding screenshots can also be helpful in describing visual issues.

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Special thank you to Satoru, the original author of this post, for putting this all together and allowing us to repost.