My folks computer is having the strangest problem. They had Age of Empires loaded onto their machine and attempted to load Age of Empires 2. The problem was that their computer only has 16mb of ram. (Compaq Presario 4506). Therefore the game returned an error message saying that 32mb of ram was required.
So I uninstalled AOE2 and reinstalled AOE. However it now returns an error message that "the graphics system could not initalise" - pointing to a compatibilty problem with the grahpics card or/and driver with Directdraw...even though it worked before.
I've reinstalled the graphics driver, sound driver, checked DXDIAG for conflicts (none listed) and directdraw test was ok. Also I've downloaded a later version of directx (originally v3...now v7) but the error message still returns. Other games that use directx work with no problem...indicating the game.
Its obviously a problem with the game itself and i was wondering if anyone was aware of a fix before i go into the registry and get the butchers knife out!!
Thanks

Steven