Doesn't work on Win XP SP3

[Shpongle]

Considering the graphics are the same...it should work on Win XP SP3, but it doesn't.

lol

[Shpongle]

Originally posted by SirSoliloquy:

There's a possible fix listed on steam here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3964-AGKL-7601

If you're encountering issues with launching or playing Rise of Nations: Extended Edition, make sure everything installed correctly.

Aside from verifying your game cache and checking your connection with Steam, you may also need to manually run secondary installers required by this game.
Exit Steam entirely.

Browse to your Rise of Nations: Extended Edition installation folder (Usually C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\)

Run the following installers:

...\Steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\_CommonRedist\DirectX\Jun2010\DXSETUP.exe

...\Steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2012\vcredist_x64.exe

...\Steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2012\vcredist_x86.exe
Reboot your computer and test the issue again. If the issue persists, you will need to contact Rise of Nations: Extended Edition Support.

If you are running in Windows XP, take the following steps:

1) Exit Steam.

2) Go to the Start menu, select Run, type regedit and click OK.

3) Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VALVE

4) Right click and select Permissions

5) Check the Allow boxes for Admin and System for both Full control and Read.


I'd also like to add that everyone else in this thread is an elitist, unhelpful jerk who is more concerned with feeling better than someone than they are about actually helping people in a thread asking for help. You've not only inconvenienced someone who had a solvable issue, you've inconvenienced everyone on the internet who had the same issue and was looking for the fix.

What the heck are you doing with your life, when your primary concern is making fun of someone who can't afford to upgrade their operating system?

Thank you so much, so many people posted and your post was the only post worthy being posted.

[Edelward]

To that poster who has said XP was best OS ever-
Alas no the best OS ever been released is Win 7
It was superb super quick and easy ,comparing to Win8 ,which I got involuntarily ofc
by buying laptop in 2013

[S1]

Originally posted by Shpongle:

Originally posted by Fill Phish:

Maybe you should upgrade to Vista, Win 7, or Win 8. (Yes, even Vista is supported by Microsoft still)

vista = win xp sp4
win7= win xp sp5
win8= win xp sp6

they could've patched it to win xp, but they want money as if every OS is a new OS when it's the same one with a different template....I mean I would switch, if it was free, lol

:facepalm:

Words do not describe how much this comment fails.

Originally posted by Shpongle:

Originally posted by Fill Phish:

Also, if you read the requirements for the game,
Minimum:
OS: Windows Vista, 7, 8.1+

XP Not supported.

Yep, I read it, I'll just wait for Windows 11 and buy that one.

You refuse to buy Vista, 7, or 8, because apparently they're "XP with a different template", but buying 11 is not a problem?
Which crystal ball told you 11 won't be yet another "XP template"?

You're contradicting yourself.

Originally posted by Shpongle:

Originally posted by Fred DM:

are you gaming on a museum object?

i5 processor
gtx 560 ti
6gb ram
ssd 500gb

I don't get it. Why did you buy a copy of XP to overwrite the free copy of 7/8 that came pre-installed on your PC?
Didn't you say you'd "switch, if it was free"?

I can think of only 3 reasons you'd get such a modern machine with a free copy of such an ancient OS.

1. This is your work PC.
You shouldn't be playing games on your work PC. Seriously, just don't.

2. Your copy of XP is not genuine.
In that case there's nothing anyone can do to help you. Pirates don't get any support.

3. You built your PC yourself and already had a copy of XP handy.
You should've bought 4 GB of RAM instead of 6. With the money you'd have saved, you might've been able to invest in a newer OS. It's not like XP x86 can access more than 4 GB RAM anyways, and I'd be surprised if you were one of the < 1% of PC users to own a copy of XP x86_64.

[la_nague]

you should upgrade to win7 for directx 10/11.

Not only for this game.

[Orlov Kruskayev]

Originally posted by SirSoliloquy:

I'd also like to add that everyone else in this thread is an elitist, unhelpful jerk who is more concerned with feeling better than someone than they are about actually helping people in a thread asking for help. You've not only inconvenienced someone who had a solvable issue, you've inconvenienced everyone on the internet who had the same issue and was looking for the fix.

What the heck are you doing with your life, when your primary concern is making fun of someone who can't afford to upgrade their operating system?

This right here.

Why would you turds come and post here if you are not willing to help?


And, I also want to make it run in my XP SP3, and it just won't. I tried that fix but it will just work in 64 bit, I'm afraid. But thanks for trying to help.

[S1]

The game's minimum requirement lists Windows Vista, 7, and 8, but not XP.

Why did you turds buy the game if it doesn't even support your OS?

What, should I make a thread called "Doesn't work on Ubuntu" and start whining and complaining about something that can easily changed by either upgrading my OS or my computer, just because I can't read a simple system requirement sheet?

If being able to read means being an Elitist, then I guess we are. Nothing wrong with paying attention at grade school, I say.


You want help? Here's an idea:
Install Virtualbox or VMWare Player, create a VM on which you install a supported OS, install RoN EE on the VM, pray that it'll work.

[Propane]

Originally posted by SirSoliloquy:

There's a possible fix listed on steam here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3964-AGKL-7601

If you're encountering issues with launching or playing Rise of Nations: Extended Edition, make sure everything installed correctly.

Aside from verifying your game cache and checking your connection with Steam, you may also need to manually run secondary installers required by this game.
Exit Steam entirely.

Browse to your Rise of Nations: Extended Edition installation folder (Usually C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\)

Run the following installers:

...\Steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\_CommonRedist\DirectX\Jun2010\DXSETUP.exe

...\Steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2012\vcredist_x64.exe

...\Steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2012\vcredist_x86.exe
Reboot your computer and test the issue again. If the issue persists, you will need to contact Rise of Nations: Extended Edition Support.

If you are running in Windows XP, take the following steps:

1) Exit Steam.

2) Go to the Start menu, select Run, type regedit and click OK.

3) Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VALVE

4) Right click and select Permissions

5) Check the Allow boxes for Admin and System for both Full control and Read.


I'd also like to add that everyone else in this thread is an elitist, unhelpful jerk who is more concerned with feeling better than someone than they are about actually helping people in a thread asking for help. You've not only inconvenienced someone who had a solvable issue, you've inconvenienced everyone on the internet who had the same issue and was looking for the fix.

What the heck are you doing with your life, when your primary concern is making fun of someone who can't afford to upgrade their operating system?

So, has the OP or anybody else with Windows XP tried this fix?
Did it work?
Thanks in advance!

[aflashman]

Rise of Nations for XP still exists -- just play the original game (on Game Ranger or Voobly). This new extended version has slightly better graphics but otherwise it is the same game.

The old version could be problematic on Windows 7 and 8 (more so the latter), hence this new version has been created to play on recent operating system, but I guess this has come at the expense of playability on XP.

Why not just code the game so that it plays on every operating system? In a word... money. The game producers most probably decided it would not be profitable to put even more work into the extended edition. I don't really know but I am guessing that it would be too technically challenging to make the game compatible with a wider range of operating systems, given their budget, hence they decided to draw a line and XP was on the wrong side of that line.

There is no point complaining about it. If you don't like it, don't buy the game.

[Siddha]

@Shpongle
I asked about XP on another game thread recently and got a torrent of trolls criticising me for asking about XP....just like on this thread. Unhelpful and ignorant kids basically...just like on this thread. Almost as ignorant and immature as the trolls who criticise people's grammar or spelling....as if American English is the only language people should speak.

[S1]

@Siddha
Here's my 2 cents:

1. @Shpongle did not ask for help. He/she just opened a thread stating that this game (unsurprisingly) doesn't work with XP, saying that "it should, but doesn't".
Considering the store page explicitly states Windows 7 as bare minimum, he/she pretty much begged for being trolled.

Asking for help is one thing, complaining about lacking support for something that is explicitly not supported, however, is something else entirely.


2. Calling others "ignorant" when you're the one who didn't read the system requirement list, is a bit ironic, don't you think?

I'm not speaking for everyone in this thread, but when some of the people here say "you should update to Windows 7 at least", it's neither unhelpful nor ignorant nor childish. It's actually good advice. You really should update to Windows 7 or newer, not just for gaming. Windows XP is unsupported; even Microsoft no longer supports it.
As long as you keep playing your disk-based games on your XP machine, it's all good. But as soon as you browse the web (like you're doing right now), you shouldn't be surprised if your PC becomes completely unusable due to the masses of malware trying to attach your PC to some random botnet, in order to launch DDoS attacks or mine bitcoins, just because your computer no longer receives critical security updates.

Stop being so stubborn about it, you'll be doing yourself a favor in the long run.

[Fedomar]

It sounds a lot like an issue that there was in the past and I have had it once...
Can not really recall atm how to fix it directly, since i do not have the problem myself.
But i tink you still can google it and check out the old replies; but in generic answers...

1) read all above in this thread; be nice and read and try old posted material first before asking for new posts... of course we can help you if you do not understand some of the steps/material

Besides the stuff posted in this thread above, also check this link:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/287450/discussions/1/35221031850802478/


2) In steam right click your game in the steam game library and select properties, select the tab "local files" then select the option "verify integrity of game cache..."


3) check if you have latest graphic drivers


4) check if you have latest directX your computer supports
If needed be, try installing an older directX version next to directX 11
That should not give you any problems


5) Install msxml4 (I do not know if it is still used now, but it gave a lot of problems in the past). Google it and you will find official microsoft website


6) disable or uninstall your virusscanner for a min and see if it passes (if you want you can use steam offline mode and unplug your internetcable)


7) disable the intro movie

depending on your windows version it could be located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations\rise2.ini
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations\rise2.ini
**the folders can be hidden, so if needed copy paste the adress without rise2.ini or unhide windows system files/folders**


Copy rise2.ini and rename it, if ever needed you can use this copy to restore it back to the "original" rise2.ini-file again.
Open rise2.ini with notepad for example and lookup "SkipIntroMovies=0" and set it to "SkipIntroMovies=1"


8) Use above methode to change the graphic settings to a different format screen 1024x768 if its not on that for example
Windowed Width=1024
Windowed Height=768

AND/OR

Fullscreen=1

AND/OR

Sound Enabled=0 (will disable sound, to be sure it has nothing to do with that)


9) Delete the game and reinstall it again


10) If i recall correctly... (hope this was not for/or only for stats in game)
Instead of Rise2.ini you can open Rise.ini, in it you can turn on the logfile for crashes (if they still work)
AllowLogs=1
In gamelog.ini you can see where the logfile will be saved.



IF any of the above steps fixed your problem, please report which (or on which step) your problem was fixed.
If not, hope we as community (or dev's from skybox lab's) can help you any further.

[Shpongle]

Originally posted by S1:

@Siddha
Here's my 2 cents:

1. @Shpongle did not ask for help. He/she just opened a thread stating that this game (unsurprisingly) doesn't work with XP, saying that "it should, but doesn't".
Considering the store page explicitly states Windows 7 as bare minimum, he/she pretty much begged for being trolled.

Asking for help is one thing, complaining about lacking support for something that is explicitly not supported, however, is something else entirely.


2. Calling others "ignorant" when you're the one who didn't read the system requirement list, is a bit ironic, don't you think?

I'm not speaking for everyone in this thread, but when some of the people here say "you should update to Windows 7 at least", it's neither unhelpful nor ignorant nor childish. It's actually good advice. You really should update to Windows 7 or newer, not just for gaming. Windows XP is unsupported; even Microsoft no longer supports it.
As long as you keep playing your disk-based games on your XP machine, it's all good. But as soon as you browse the web (like you're doing right now), you shouldn't be surprised if your PC becomes completely unusable due to the masses of malware trying to attach your PC to some random botnet, in order to launch DDoS attacks or mine bitcoins, just because your computer no longer receives critical security updates.

Stop being so stubborn about it, you'll be doing yourself a favor in the long run.

No, actually. I just wanted to say this game doesn't work on Win XP SP3 32bit. Which was a surprise to me because I played this very same exact game on Win XP 32bit retail. Back in 2003. Same graphics, same game, 12 years later, doesn't work on the same platform.

I have Age of Empires 2 HD edition, which works on Win XP SP3 32 bit, BUT It becomes quickly unplayable as soon as there's more than 200 units on the map. And it's not even HD. There's no difference in graphics. There's people saying that they have a completly new PC with 16gb ram, Windows 8 64bit and Nvidia Titan and the best computer ever, and yet the game starts to stutter after 200 units on their computer just the same as my trusty ol' mill. And it's been like that since release of AOE2HD. But the 1997 version works fine on everyones computer. No stutter regardless of how many units.

So you see, I kind of don't understand why a 80.000.000.000$ company like Microsoft makes a ''remastered'' game of Rise of Nations, which then doesn't work on the same platform that the original game worked on in 2003.Same graphics, same game, 12 years later, doesn't work on the same platform. Maybe they can't afford it? lol.

[S1]

Originally posted by Shpongle:

Maybe they can't afford it? lol.

Or maybe MS just wanted to end support for an over 7 year-old OS in 2009, but decided to extend said support for a whopping 5 years, because some people felt entitled, and with the end of the extended support period in 2014, they decided not to waste any more money to support an OS that's already way past expiration date?

In case you didn't notice, MS still supports a number of very demanding products, such as Vista, 7, and 8.x. Not to mention Windows Phone 8.x and Xbox OS (for 360 and One). And that's just the tip of the iceberg. MS has plenty of software suites it needs to support, that the average consumer probably doesn't even know about, such as Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, MS Office (actually, that one's pretty well known among average users), Office for Mac (less known, but it exists as well), etc.
They're also developing Windows 10, Visual Studio 2015, Office 2015/2016, the next Halo, the next Fable, etc.
In addition to all that, they now also have to support several devices, including the Xbox 360 and One, the Surface series, the Lumias (courtesy of Nokia), Kinect, etc.
Let's not forget that they still need to R&D new products, such as the next Surface, the next Xbox (did you know consoles aren't designed in just 7 days?), the next couple of Lumia phones, HoloLens, etc.
And then there's all the services MS offers, like Azure, OneDrive, Bing, and more.

Do you really think that 80.000.000.000$ company has nothing else to do than worry about the compatibility of one old game for an OS that's no longer supported?

For the record: You were lucky AoE 2 HD worked on XP. The game officially requires Vista to run. Your luck just ran out with RoN EE.