Age of Empires 3 Has Stopped Working

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Age of Empires 3 Has Stopped Working

Post by waldoctg »

Hi,

I have Windows 10 and I can't get Age of Empires 3 to work. I bought it through Steam. I'm using Parallels, but that shouldn't matter because my brother is and his works fine. Age of Empires 2 HD works perfect for me.

It says, "Age of Empires 3 Has Stopped Working." I read that I should download and install these files, but that didn't work: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... x?id=19662 ... Actually, I tried to install them, but got stuck on installing the msxmlsdk as it was asking for a location to install it, but I didn't know where to do it...Maybe that's my issue?

Also, I tried to run the aoe3y.exe (and the other exes in the steamapps directory) as Administrator AND with different compatibility modes, but that didn't work.

Lastly, I tried to "Verify Integrity of Game Cache" in steam and it shows up as failed...-_-

Any ideas? Thanks.
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Re: Age of Empires 3 Has Stopped Working

Post by Ashvin »

Interesting..never came across such thing, but Virtual Machines tend to create some or the other problems.

Did you try compatibility troubleshoot?
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