Age of empires multiplayer lan windows 7

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Santosh Y. Hi BrytonWishart, I would suggest you to place the computer in a clean boot state and troubleshoot the issue and check if it helps. Also, have a look at the following steps suggested by Mike - Support Engineer in the following link: When attempting to play multiplayer in Age of Empires II: The Conquerers, Windows 7 machine unable to join game Hope this helps. How satisfied are you with this reply?

Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. We can click join game and it starts the process but never makes it in. This is the first time we had this problem. Like I said it worked just fine the day before but now its not working. A wierd note is that all the xp sp3 machines have no problem joining each other and the windows 7 machines have no problems joining each other but between the 2 versions we just started having problems.

Try turning off the firewall on all the machines to pinpoint the issue. The reason I say to do it this way is because if you stop the firewall through control panel the service still runs. Did you make any changes before the issue happen? Did you try to host with others map for a check? Have you tried to disable the firewall for a test? Perform System Restore. TechNet Community Support. Before i started going through any troubleshooting techniques, I'm not a pc wiz just an average know a little bit of stuff guy, I wanted to test something.

I wanted to see if empire earth 2 would work. I launched the game on a windows 7 pc and an xp sp3 pc. The computers connected just fine. Does this information help at all? Nothing has changed from 1 day to the next day on these computers. When we would play the conquerors, either computer could host and we would have no problems.

Ground War mixes several game types and has a higher score limit, so more kills are required to win, although there are typically more players. A bit operating system won't be able to run a bit program unless you run the program through an emulator or a virtual machine.

How do I get bit programs to work on a bit Windows? This question on Arqade: How to get old bit Windows games to work on bit Windows? Win3mu is a Windows 3. The website for Win3mu only offers a source code download. Another alternative is to use a Virtual Machine VM. R First of all - Stars! I do this myself on my bit Windows 7 install. Thanks to the integration features, it can feel very seamless, since you can run just that one program without displaying the entire OS. However, I have not been able to get the interstitial CD audio tracks to work this way but maybe that's not a big deal for you anyway.

Virtual PC and install Stars! If you have a copy of Windows 3. S OK I got this working and it seems you need to do two things. Update DirectX. It certainly doesn't work without the patch upgrade. You don't need any of the Windows 7 compatibility modes.