Age of Empires II

I'd try posting this at www.insidemacgames.com/forum instead of here. Might get a better reply since it's all gamers over there.

No problem. Also found this on a Google search for you. Maybe that mysterious "patch" will help you, too.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=410471

Age of empires II will not run on Intel chips and will not run under emulation with rosetta. You will need to upgrade to Age of Empires III to run it on the new hardware. I had the same issue when I upgraded from a Power Mac G-4 top a new 24" iMac.

There is no patch, no other solution. The only way to play the game with any Intel Mac is to buy the new version.

http://guides.macrumors.com/UniversalBinaryGames

Some people claim it runs fine under Rosetta, though. Maybe it works in Tiger and not Leopard?

I have been running Age of Empires II since the day Leopard came out and I never install the patch because it screws up saved games. You don't need to upgrade to Age III. What file are you missing?

"I have been running Age of Empires II since the day Leopard came out..."

I tried on all of my Intel Macs and it refused to load on the ones where I installed the system fresh or the ones that came with Leopard, and on the ones that I merely updated, it flat refused to open must less run.

When I contacted tech support they told me that it would not run on any intel chips and that there were no plans to patch it. Maybe with the high end quad core model rosetta is fast enough to run it? All I know is it would not run on my 2.0 and 2.4Gz Intel iMacs, even the 24" and their own tech support said it will not run under rosetta, maybe they were wrong.

If I am wrong I apologize.

Hi well i can tell you the problem right here plain and simple mac os x 10.5.2 will not run aoe2 in multiplayer via GR it will go out of sync every time about 5 minutes into the game. It comes from a problem within rosetta has changed.... This could be fixed with 10.5.3 but not likely so the fix is to stay at 10.5.1 or downgrade to it (simple) or wait to see what happens with 10.5.3. Aoe2 will run under a single player mode just fine on leopard but multiplayer is out of the question!... Unless you play against someone who is 10.5.2 also. Now the way to down grade would be... the manufacturer of this game won't fix it either since the game is old and their is no patch.

1. Pop in your leopard disk.

2. When you go to install click options and click archive and install. It will install a new system of leopard but will keep all of your personal files on the HD with a title "previous systems"

Also to add my macbook is from april 2007 so maybe the new santa rose package won;t run it but i know friends that do

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Yesterday, we did a LAN game with AoE II and III. Here my conclusions:

Used: 1 Mac Pro 2.8Ghz, 1 iMac 20" 2.4Ghz, 1 iMac 24" 2.8Ghz, MacBook Pro 1.83Ghz, MacBook Air 1.6Ghz. So all Intel. Ran on all the updates of AoE, all machines running 10.5.3. There was an incredible network lag, which made it unplayable. Then we switched to AoE II v1.0.5. Running smooth as a baby on all Intel Macs. Only the MacBook Air couldn't run it, I guess it was because it can't switch back to thousands of colours, neither with an external display. Also the Mac Pro was the only computer connected with a wire to the network and this machine wasn't able to host the game. But the MacBook pro could. The first game we got an 'out of sync' error from the Mac Pro, the second game worked until the end (about 3 hours game). I guess if all machines are on the same node, it runs more reliable, but in contrary to what has been said in this thread, AoE II runs better than AoE III for network games in our experience.

Was there any particular Port configuration in addition to everyone running 10.5.3? We tried running a game between the 20" iMac with 10.5.3 and a MacPro running 10.4.11 and it would very quickly go out of sync giving us a Port error message.

Correction, make that a MacBook Pro.

No, just a normal set up.

okay let me explain again AOE2 will not run on any system above 10.5.2....10.5.1 will work 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 will not something has changed with rosetta which makes every game go out of sync... with intel vs PPC. Now if you both have the same system such as 10.5.2 vs 10.5.2 if will work fine but anything else will not the only option you really have is to make a partion on your mac about 15 GB and install 10.5 on it and play aoe2 from their otherwise get use to playing it offline because aoe3 just plain *****