Hi, my steam version of aoe 2 is running perfectly online and offline.
When trying to start the game in voobly by hosting a room. i'm getting the error: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and drivers are compatible with DirectDraw".
I installed new drivers, tried 32bit rendering, offline resolution and my game room settings are like this: [You must login to view link] , but nothing seems to work for me.
It's rly frustrating..

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hi
try "disable hardware acceleration". is your operating system up to date?

updated yesterday and i tried all options various times with all combinations possible. still getting the error.
im using directx11 on win7 with ati radeon 5800 hd. i rly have no clue why its not running cuz i updated everything. the game path is correct, but it simply wont start with graphic card error.. would love to play over here but seems to be impossible -_-

hi
it could be the install as a patch is needed to play steam version on voobly. try this: https://support.voobly.com/display/vkb/KB1054+Clean+installation+of+Aoe2HD+with+compatibility+patch

i dnt know exactly where the error was but apparently it worked out when i deleted aoe, compatibility patches and voobly. then reinstalling. I guess it was a pathing error, since i had compatibilty in steamapps/newfolder instead of being installed directly in path. who knows. However im super glad it's working now. Thanks for your fast respond. You're keeping the community up. rly nice guy

hi
ok