AoM Crashes after launcher

[Kizraeus]

Hello,

So I play the game in steam, launcher opens, I press play, then the game window launches then crashes and yields the following error box: "Age of Mythology: Extended Edition has stopped working".

I have already tried reinstalling and verified the integrity of the game cache.
What can I do to fix this?

I'm running Windows 10, 64-bit. All the graphics requirements check out.
Here is the last few lines of the log file:

13:36:30 - BRenderer::init(fullScreen=Yes,xRes=1600,yRes=1024,bpp=16,stencilbits=0,refreshRate=75,cputnl=No,refrast=No,terrainMipLevels=3
13:36:30 - BD3D11Renderer init 7.
13:36:30 - BD3D11Renderer init 8.
13:36:30 - BD3D11Renderer init 9.
13:36:30 - BD3D11Renderer init 10.
13:36:30 - D3D11 createSwapChain start
13:36:30 - D3D11 createSwapChain making fullscreen
13:36:32 - D3D11: destroying renderer
13:36:32 - --> via resetDevice

[AThirstyGoat]

Hi, I had the exact same problem with an extremely similar output in my logs. I noticed that the similarities between our logs was that we both launch to fullscreen mode. I fixed my issue by changing the "windowmode" attribute to 1 where it was previously 0 in the file:

..\Steam\steamapps\common\Age of Mythology\Users\Default.prf

I only have one profile for my settings and it is the Default.prf, if you have more than one you might want edit them all accordingly to the above.

Hope this helps!

Background - I'm running Windows 10 - 64bit and the above are the only settings I have changed manually for Age of Mythology.

[Kizraeus]

Brilliant!
Your suggestion worked like a charm! I changed the windowmode value to 1, launched AoM (which opened into a windowed client), then changed the resolution to my monitors native one to put it into fullscreen.

Thanks a ton, much appreciated!

[mars99cc]

How do you change the Windowmode attribute never done this before

[Kizraeus]

Originally posted by mars99cc:

How do you change the Windowmode attribute never done this before

Open the following file in notepad:
..\Steam\steamapps\common\Age of Mythology\Users\Default.prf

Use Ctrl + F to open the search box, then search for windowmode. Once you've found it, change the value from 0 to 1, then save.

[AThirstyGoat]

No problem, glad I could help!

[Arnold J. Rimmer BSc, SSc.]

Hi guys. I am having a problem I think may be the same. I do not have the file "Default.prf" however. The only file in the Users folder is called "Lastprofile." Any help?

[mars99cc]

work like a charm thanks

[Kizraeus]

Originally posted by DatCrazyNerf:

Hi guys. I am having a problem I think may be the same. I do not have the file "Default.prf" however. The only file in the Users folder is called "Lastprofile." Any help?

Try the aforementioned procedure for the 'lastprofile' file, I suppose? Also, it wouldn't be a terrible idea to make a copy of the origional, so you can easily roll back any changes by replacing the altered file. Or you could just go back in and change the value back.

[Arnold J. Rimmer BSc, SSc.]

Originally posted by Kizzler.exe:

Originally posted by DatCrazyNerf:

Hi guys. I am having a problem I think may be the same. I do not have the file "Default.prf" however. The only file in the Users folder is called "Lastprofile." Any help?

Try the aforementioned procedure for the 'lastprofile' file, I suppose? Also, it wouldn't be a terrible idea to make a copy of the origional, so you can easily roll back any changes by replacing the altered file. Or you could just go back in and change the value back.

All that comes up in the notepad file is "Default"

[AThirstyGoat]

I have a suggesstions to attempt to have your game open to windowed mode.

Try this:
In the file ..\Steam\steamapps\common\Age of Mythology\startup\persistent.cfg
Add "+window" on it's own line somewhere in the file, I don't think it matters where.

If that doesn't work it's possible the Default settings overwrite those changes meaning after attempting to open the game and then going back to the persistent.cfg file your "+window" change might be gone.

There might be a way to change what the Default settings are but I've yet to be able to find it.

[Arnold J. Rimmer BSc, SSc.]

There is no "persistent.cfg" file.

The only files in "startup" folder are: (folder route I took is Steam>Steamapps>Common>Ageofmythology>Startup.)

game.cfg

gamex.cfg

Local.cfg

Localex.cfg

Production.cfg

and their counterpart ".con" files.

Thank you for your efforts too guys. I appreciate it.

Note:
I have already just freshly installed this again so all the files are as downloaded.

- Nerf

[RGK]

This only made my loading screen visable instead of black. Any ideas on how to fix 09:45:39 - EXCEPTION CAUGHT: Stack Overflow at 0x014A68C3 in 0x000A2778 at base address 0x01330000

[AThirstyGoat]

Did it change the error logs at all from before, or is it just a visual difference? If it changed it might point to some problem with your graphics or their settings.

Does it give you a file name of where it overflows at?

Honestly a stack overflow could mean so many things, in a general sense it just means the game is attempting to allocate more memory than allotted for it (or it's stuck in an infinite loop, because the stack is what is overflowing). You might run your Task Manager (or equivalent Cntrl+Alt+Del) and see if it is possibly consuming a large amount of memory when it tries to start up. If it's not a hardware memory constraint it might be some configuration of your computer and graphics that causes some bug in the game. :/

[RGK]

All i get with the last couple lines in the log is
19:25:11 - initRenderer camera FOV set to default of 21.2
19:25:11 - initRenderer 13
19:25:11 - initRenderer SUCCESSFUL
19:25:11 - 79
19:25:11 - 80
19:25:11 - 81
19:25:11 - 82
19:25:11 - 83
19:25:11 - 84
19:25:26 - EXCEPTION CAUGHT: Stack Overflow at 0x003968C3 in 0x00C42778 at base address 0x00220000

[Kizraeus]

Not sure what else to suggest beides attempting to allocate more memory to the process.
>Open Task Manager
>Select the 'Details' tab
>Find the process for Age of Mythology
>Right Click
>Set priority to high