I have installed Age of Empires II: Age of Kings on my fairly new Dell, but after installing I get an error stating "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw." I have already tried running the program in compatibility mode, disabling desktop composition, running in 256 colors, and I have updated my video card drivers as well as DirectX. I have also installed DirectX End-User Runtime, and have manually downloaded and installed DirectX 9.0c, but to no avail.
Specs:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Inspiron 570 64-bit
AMD Athlon II X2 245 Processor, 2900 Mhz, 2 Cores, 2 Logical Processors
4 GB of RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4200 updated to Catalyst 12.6
It may also be worth mentioning that my cousin just bought a brand new laptop that has an AMD Radeon 6520g card, and is able to play the game right out of the box.
Is there anything else I can try?
Sincerely,
David
Specs:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Inspiron 570 64-bit
AMD Athlon II X2 245 Processor, 2900 Mhz, 2 Cores, 2 Logical Processors
4 GB of RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4200 updated to Catalyst 12.6
It may also be worth mentioning that my cousin just bought a brand new laptop that has an AMD Radeon 6520g card, and is able to play the game right out of the box.
Is there anything else I can try?
Sincerely,
David