FIXED! Update 34055 Breaks the Game, Crashes on every start of a match/campaign

[Askalan]

Update: 18.12.2019 9 pm MET : New Hotfix came out, problem seems fixed both campaign and random matches work again


Date 17.12.2019
Great Work! Age of Empires II DE became unplayable.

With Update 34055 whenever i start a Campaign mission or a random match (or any kind of match) the game loads until the very moment where the black screen would turn into the map (in random games i already get to hear the sound of captured sheep) the game crashes, 7 tries on Campaigns, 4 on random games, always same result.

System is Win 7, with a mediocre PC, good enough for 4 vs 4 multiplayer matches without lacks on medium settings


After 1 Day and...400+ Reactions here is a a general Infor for ALL

The Problem is that the Patch deletes Support for Windows 7, so everyone with Win 7 is affected.

Devs did pin this post and also claimed that this was NOT intentional and is NOT a try to force People on Win 10 (Microsofts's Win 7 support is offcially ceased by january)
The Developers ask to not spread the narrative, that this is a measure to get people off Windows 7, and while i am not fully conviced we should all at least respect their request.

No information about potential Date/time for a fix are aviable yet (or at least i didnt saw a Dev mention one yet)

[LegionariuS97]

I don't think you can roll back but anyway even if you manage to do it you will not be able to play online anymore ..

[Stiernacken22]

Same problem... win7x64. It is definetly the new patch, it ran fine up until now.
You can even load a map in scenario editor, but when you try to place units it crashes. (D3D11.dll). A hotfix would be appreciated...

[Nascosto]

Was playing, got off to update the game and now it keeps crashing

[Nascosto]

I verified the files too but still keeps crashing

[Kafson]

Game crashes constantly after new update

After is start a new match the game crashes every time.
I have windows 7 and people with newer systems don´t have the issue.
Before the update the game worked perfectly.

[White Walker]

After the new patch my game doesnt launch.

I press play, it "launches" but then stops and nothing happpens. The game isnt visible in taskmanager. I refreshed files, opened closed steam, restarted computer. gg

[Limejunk]

Maybe the game realised that your avatar is a picture of hitler as child and confirmed that you are an idiot

[Qoojo]

I suggest verifying game files just in case something didn't update correctly.

[LegionariuS97]

Publicado originalmente por Nascosto_Hs:

I verified the files too but still keeps crashing

there's no fixing to that issue because most probably it's a coding error so unless you're a programmer i don't think you'll manage to get something out of it

[Papa Francisco Modo Ouija]

Same here, also Win7

[CaptainMoma]

yes, same problem.

[CatBlacksmith]

Same here, Win7 again

[Limejunk]

Probably you should get Win98 - it runs fine

[楪 いのり]

same problem here, since the update the game doesn't work anymore

I start it, no matter if I load a savegame or start a new one, after a few seconds "AoE II DE doesn't work anymore" and the game will be closed.

[LegionariuS97]

Publicado originalmente por Limejunk:

Probably you should get Win98 - it runs fine

win95 maybe