Age of Empires 2 on SnowLeopard 10.6.2

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Age of Empires 2 on SnowLeopard 10.6.2

I was curious if anyone had tried playing that game on Snow leopard?
i was going to pick it up at a steep discount and didnt say anything about specific requirements or not for SnowLeopard.

17" MacBook Pro 2.66 | 4GB | 500GB |, Mac OS X (10.5.6), XP Pro SP3

Posted on Nov 29, 2009 5:12 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 7, 2009 10:38 AM in response to 60wpm

lame.

i just got a copy for Xmas and for a new mac to replace my other one and now it doesnt work.

Greeeeeeeat.

So far about 85% of the software i picked up within the past year is not supported or working under OSX 10.6.

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Answer 2

Dec 7, 2009 2:17 PM in response to Frank Einstein

Okay thank you both.

Here's what i found.
It wouldnt let me install it on my Standard User Account, so i created a secondary Admin and viola, it plays and functions fine....in all its 4:3 Aspect Ratio =P

I'm not sure what was up with my main Admin account, but the second one seemed to do the trick. try it out and let me know if its working for you all aswell.

I have my SL running al the Software updates & am on 10.6.2
also have rosetta installed.

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Answer 3

60wpm

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Dec 7, 2009 5:36 PM in response to Frank Einstein

Holy Smokes! -- LoudspeakerMusic, you deserve to give yourself a new set of fabulous speakers!

I CONFIRM that your 'work around,' method worked. I set up a second Administrator account, as you indicated, and Presto! Age of Empire 2 was installed, up and running.

I logged out, logged in, checked it again. It works fine.

ALSO -- I was able to do this with an important data program I had/have for a Palm Pilot. That program also would not install and I was emailing the company and phoning them, 'cause it contains Five Years of names, addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, shopping list, Everything -- and Palm was telling me: "too bad, we're sorry."

So, this is a Great Discovery you made. Nice work. Thanks.

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Answer 4

Dec 7, 2009 7:37 PM in response to 60wpm

Wow, that is great!

I'm glad a post of mine has actual benefit.

a good portion of my software on this new mac I had to purchase wasnt working, so luckily so far that method or "trick/work around" has been pretty consistent...not even sure why.

No problem, 🙂

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Answer 5

Jan 7, 2010 3:42 PM in response to Frank Einstein

Have you guys tried playing AOE2 online while having snow leopard installed? I'm on OS X and my friend is on Snow Leopard - every time we start an online match (over Gameranger) we can play for exactly 20 minutes and then my friend gets dropped from the game. He has all the updates installed & rosetta installed but yet this problem continues. Any suggestions?

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Answer 6

Jan 22, 2010 2:17 AM in response to vandar

that is strange, ive been playing it for about a month now and usually if i step away from it and let it sit it stays.
generally id let it idle for about 2-3 hours.

did you perform a clean install with SL or did you upgrade from Leopard?

i dontknow if it would be a hardware issue with conflicting with either the cpu or graphics if its a newer Mac?

I'd try reapplying the 10.6.2 combo updater and reinstall AoEII.

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Answer 7

60wpm

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Dec 1, 2009 7:00 PM in response to Frank Einstein

I tried my copy. No luck. No way.

Here's a link to a list of games and their OS snow leopard compatibility.
http://guides.macrumors.com/UniversalBinaryGames

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Answer 8

Dec 7, 2009 4:35 PM in response to Frank Einstein

also, it doest contain a slick dock icon, just an Applications Icon; im wondering if thats normal? probably it hink since the game is more than a couple years old lol.

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Answer 9

Dec 14, 2009 5:41 PM in response to 60wpm

Hey does either of your guys' icon show up or is jst a generic dockicon?

thanks!
so far its working good with that fix. wow! nice find!

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60wpm

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Dec 14, 2009 11:56 PM in response to FrankBobandy

Me also: generic application icon....if we figure out why this is -- and why AOE2 installed on a 2nd user account, um...we'll know more than we did before.

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Answer 11

Dec 20, 2009 1:19 AM in response to 60wpm

likewise, generic icon on SL. under Leopard. original icon.

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Answer 12

Jan 10, 2010 12:52 PM in response to GunsAndSmoke

Under snow leopard, i play online with someone running Leopard on a MacBook and we can play for an indefinite amount of time...

could it be the bandwidth on his ISP or network connection?

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Answer 13

vandar

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Jan 21, 2010 9:08 PM in response to Frank Einstein

I just put Age of Empires II 1.0.6 on my MacBook Pro w/ SL and it plays a little and then just quits. Any ideas?

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