game crashes on windows 8.1

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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Aladdin »

Good day friends,
I subscribed to get some advice for running this game on my computer.
my computer has windows 8.1 pro installed.

I purchased the complete edition from steam and although the game would run fine, my computer would crash haphazardly in the middle of gameplay. monitor would go black (no signal) and i have to do a hard reset
on the computer.

then I tried locating the aoe3.exe file and trying to run it in XP compatibility mode but that did not help either.

I was wondering if anyone else have had this problem and how you solved it.

I can not install windows xp because my graphics card does not support win XP drivers (GTX 970)

Please let me know

Thanks
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game crashes on windows 8.1

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then install win 7
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Rikikipu »

I'm pretty sure it doesn't come from your OS. I had windows 8.1 and no problem with it. Even with a cracked version it worked. Now i have windows 10 and it's still ok.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Aladdin »

rikikipu wrote:I''m pretty sure it doesn''t come from your OS. I had windows 8.1 and no problem with it. Even with a cracked version it worked. Now i have windows 10 and it''s still ok.
That is interesting. I never had any problems with my computer though, all other games run fine only this game crashes it.
I will install windows 10 and 7 dual boot and see what happens from there.
thanks for the replies
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by iNcog »

I don't think that it's windows 8.1

must be some other problem

what model is your gtx 970?
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I just hope DE is not going to implement all of the EP changes. Right now it is a big clusterfuck.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Aladdin »

EVGA GTX 970 superclocked edition. I updated the driver yesterday with no good result
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game crashes on windows 8.1

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i'm kinda jelly


screen goes black and then just stops? hmm i can't think of anything right now lol
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Garja wrote: ↑
20 Mar 2020, 21:46
I just hope DE is not going to implement all of the EP changes. Right now it is a big clusterfuck.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Mimsy for President »

I have Win 8.1 and it works perfectly. Normally, Steam has set the exe to run in compatibility mode for Win XP SP3. If not, do it yourself.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Aladdin »

Thank you for your help anyway. I am going to install a dual boot of windows 10 and 7 today, I will let you know if the results change.

when the screen becomes unresponsive (monitor tries to read signal from DVI and HDMI and still fails) that usually indicates a gpu driver crash. why it happens is beyond me.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

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ah did you overclock your card? maybe it's unstable
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Garja wrote: ↑
20 Mar 2020, 21:46
I just hope DE is not going to implement all of the EP changes. Right now it is a big clusterfuck.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Aladdin »

no I didnt overclock my card. everything works fine except this one game.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Marco1698 »

Good day friend did you consider aoe3 is a very old game?
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Aladdin »

ok. so I formatted my hard drive. installed a clean copy of windows 10. reinstalled drivers and AOE3.
I started the game and everything went smoothly. played for about an hour.

came back a few hours later: game crashed within 5 minutes in the exact same way as before. lol
I give up gg
back to rome 2
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game crashes on windows 8.1

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deleted_user wrote:I have a GTX 970 and also windows 8.1 and aoe 3 still works. There must be some other issue?

nice. what model is that?
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Garja wrote: ↑
20 Mar 2020, 21:46
I just hope DE is not going to implement all of the EP changes. Right now it is a big clusterfuck.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by Aladdin »

Hey guys thanks for all the help.
I wanted to let you know I solved the problem and hopefully if others have the same problem can read this post and resolve their issue.

first of all I installed windows 10 and installed the latest gpu driver.

then the vanilla worked fine but the Asian Dynasties was a pain in the neck because my screen would turn black and game would freeze and come back with a message saying "graphics driver has crashed and recovered" or something to that effect.

I looked it up and somehow this helped me fix it: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2665946
I used the manual regedit fix.
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game crashes on windows 8.1

Post by iNcog »

are you kidding, you still need to do manual regedit fixes on nvidia cards?
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Garja wrote: ↑
20 Mar 2020, 21:46
I just hope DE is not going to implement all of the EP changes. Right now it is a big clusterfuck.

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