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First post, by fsmith2003

Posted on 2017-10-09, 06:16

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I have recently installed Age of Empires 2 on my Win 98 build that is using a Voodoo 3 3500 video card. When I try to play the game I keep getting the following error:
"Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw.

I am using Directx 6.1a also.

Any ideas of how to get this game going?

Reply 1 of 3, by collector

Posted on 2017-10-09, 14:47

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Reply 2 of 3, by Stiletto

Posted on 2017-10-10, 00:07

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Moved.

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Reply 3 of 3, by firage

Posted on 2017-10-10, 00:47

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Try installing DirectX 7.0a. If that doesn't do it, different versions of the Voodoo3 driver.

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