Mine Age of Empires and rise of Rome installed and ran fine on windows 10 AOE ii did not install I used the run as admin that seemed to work. I've got the Ubisoft collectors edition (disc) copy (age 1&2 with expansions) and it works fine on windows 10, no need to run compatibility mode or anything.
).Age of Empires Expansion: The Rise of Rome is the highly anticipated add-on to the award-winning strategy game Age of Empires, the strategy/war winner of. ( I can't find my note, but believe Take 2 games is one such publisher. To redeem the key for a download version from their site in order to circumvent the DEM Blocking malware that MS There are also a number of games that used SafeDisk copy protection that the developers have allowed people ( I had to do this with Batman AC after upgrading to Win10 because Win10 broke GFWL ). Have you verified this ? There are not very many games that can be redeemed forĪ Steam download version, and those that can be are mostly, if not all, games with GFWL issues
I may have to check if my Asian Dynasty expansion has a higher version patch than what I've used asĪsian Dynasty does require a noCD to launch without the CD. In this case I had a noCD for the main game, but I just now moved the original age.exe back in and the game Installing, only to find that occasionally my later release version of a game is already patched,
I was thinking this, but wasn't sure as I tend to download patches and fixes before "apparently the retail version, once patched, has no disc check." You should be able to get more details at. Mega Games -, but they don't go as far as v 1.13, so I may have sourced it,Īnd game patch v1.13 & v1.14 from one of the AOE fan sites ? I don't think either v1.13 or 1.14 are important though.
Generally you need to use a noCD that matches the version the game is patched to, but I am using a noCDįor v1.13 with a game that is patched to 1.14. I don't recall where I got my patches and noCD. It's been a long time since I installed this game (installed on Win7, still running same install on Win10) and To launch the game without a disk you will require a noCD/DVD fix/hack. Mine seems to have been as I don't have earlier than v1.13 in my collection). If the game installed you will need to install the patches (more recent disk based versions may come You can delete this folder once the game has been installed. Run the installer from this folder and install the game to your laptop.
Copy the full contents of the game to a folder on an external drive with enough capacity to hold all The disk, but I kept the CD in the drive during the process). Should work (I've had to do this because of DRM issues that prevented a couple of games from installing from ( I haven't actually done done the following without the disk in a CD drive, or from an external drive, but it Most games run a CD check for the key code eachīut you look like an honest type, and it's only fair you should be able to play what you paid for. Have the CD in the drive to install or play the game. It may have been a given, in the days prior to game downloads, that you needed to "I would also like to point out that on the "System Requirements" for the game, a CD drive is not listed as something required by my system in order to play this game."