Different in-game language

pecelot · Post by **pecelot** » 03 Aug 2015, 08:10

Is it possible to change an in-game language without reinstallation? If so, how to do that?

Marco1698 · Post by **Marco1698** » 03 Aug 2015, 10:05

I don't think so since you can buy the game on a specific language depending about where are you from

91 · Post by 91 » 03 Aug 2015, 10:18

http://eso-community.net/thread/1509/aoe3-complete-collection-different-language

From Ovi12:
"On steam it''s very easy. Go to your games library, right click on age of empires 3, and click propreties. There you will find a tab called "Language", from where you can select it. The only problem is for some reason it takes a long time to install as if it''s installing the whole game all over again."

If you don''t have the steam version, you need to find those xml files I believe

(It didn''t remove any of my settings/saved games etc. when changing)

pecelot · Post by **pecelot** » 03 Aug 2015, 10:29

Oh, thanks, I guess I missed that thread. I have an original version of the game however, not a Steam one. So I need to replace those .xml files that were mentioned with the ones in the language I want to choose?

91 · Post by 91 » 03 Aug 2015, 10:42

Yep, make sure to save your old ones as a backup first though, in case something is wrong with the new ones ')

And a hint, generally the AoE file names look like this:
file.xml = vanilla
fileX.xml = TWC
fileY.xml = TAD

Rikikipu · Post by **Rikikipu** » 05 Aug 2015, 09:48

The file you are looking for is called stringtablename.xml for nilla or stringtablenamey.xml for TAD.

It should be there if you don't have steam
C:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of empires 3/bin/data

pecelot · Post by **pecelot** » 14 May 2016, 00:49

Thanks, @Rikikipu , it worked! I didn't do that back then but yesterday decided to get interested in it again. I found the files and then asked my friend to send me his English ones.

Post by **j_t_kirk** » 17 Jul 2018, 11:30

http://eso-community.net/thread/1509/aoe3-complete-collection-different-language

The link doesn't work. Can someone post his english stringtabley again, pls?

91 · Post by 91 » 17 Jul 2018, 16:45

j_t_kirk wrote:http://eso-community.net/thread/1509/aoe3-complete-collection-different-language

The link doesn't work. Can someone post his english stringtabley again, pls?

Current link: https://eso-community.net/viewtopic.php?t=1509 (Thanks to Buckethead)

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