Age of Empires II gold ed Crashing

[Sam726627]

Hello there, probably like most of you when I got a Mac I started to miss my old PC games. So I've recently been fining ways to play them (Wrappers etc) and today I got Age of Empires II Gold Edition, and it starts up perfectly fine. I can read the menus, watch the videos etc. But as soon as it begins to load a map or a game it crashes. I think I have sourced the problem down to myself not having the correct permissions to change the file or something.

When I press CMD-I, I can't change the permissions to "read and write for everybody" I have even tried using the 'root' user to see if that has the privileges, but that does not either. I even tried ~/Library/Preferences/Age of Empires II Preferences but it tells me I don't have permission? Any help would be greatly appreciated
Running Mac OS X 10.6.8 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

I have a bit of code telling you all abit about the problem more in-depth

 

[stuckwithme247]

Hello there, probably like most of you when I got a Mac I started to miss my old PC games. So I've recently been fining ways to play them (Wrappers etc) and today I got Age of Empires II Gold Edition, and it starts up perfectly fine. I can read the menus, watch the videos etc. But as soon as it begins to load a map or a game it crashes. I think I have sourced the problem down to myself not having the correct permissions to change the file or something.

When I press CMD-I, I can't change the permissions to "read and write for everybody" I have even tried using the 'root' user to see if that has the privileges, but that does not either. I even tried ~/Library/Preferences/Age of Empires II Preferences but it tells me I don't have permission? Any help would be greatly appreciated
Running Mac OS X 10.6.8 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

I have a bit of code telling you all abit about the problem more in-depth

It would help a lot if we knew what these so-called "wrappers" you are referring to are.

What I can tell you is that I recently played AOE2 on Windows 7 64-bit and it ran fine. I had to play around with compatibility mode a little bit if I recall, but eventually it worked. Your best bet is going to be to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp, or possibly Parallels and run it there.

After playing a little AOE2 I decided to get AOE 3 Complete which is great also in my opinion.

Good luck

 

[Sam726627]

It would help a lot if we knew what these so-called "wrappers" you are referring to are.

What I can tell you is that I recently played AOE2 on Windows 7 64-bit and it ran fine. I had to play around with compatibility mode a little bit if I recall, but eventually it worked. Your best bet is going to be to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp, or possibly Parallels and run it there.

After playing a little AOE2 I decided to get AOE 3 Complete which is great also in my opinion.

Good luck

Oh sorry, lack of clarification on my part. I'm not using any wrappers to run AOE2 this time. Because the game already comes in a Mac version. But if it makes any difference I normally use Wineskin for other titles.

I always held out from parallels but I guess I'll finally give it a shot. Mailed apple too and they can't give me a response to change locked permissions.

 

[stuckwithme247]

Oh sorry, lack of clarification on my part. I'm not using any wrappers to run AOE2 this time. Because the game already comes in a Mac version. But if it makes any difference I normally use Wineskin for other titles.

I always held out from parallels but I guess I'll finally give it a shot. Mailed apple too and they can't give me a response to change locked permissions.

Mac OS X 10.6.8 can't run classic mode. This means you are pretty much out of luck as far as support goes. It may be possible to emulate Mac OS 9 and run the game there, but you can't run the game natively on OS X. Hope this info helps.

 

[shulerg]

Emulate OS 9.x.x and go from there.

 

[goMac]

Mac OS X 10.6.8 can't run classic mode. This means you are pretty much out of luck as far as support goes. It may be possible to emulate Mac OS 9 and run the game there, but you can't run the game natively on OS X. Hope this info helps.

Whaaaaa? Age of Empires 2 is Mac OS X native. I used to play it on Mac OS X all the time.

It doesn't have an Intel binary, but that's another can of worms...

 

[Northwestern]

They should bring it up on the MAS, best AOE of all time imo.

 

[gregorsamsa]

Whaaaaa? Age of Empires 2 is Mac OS X native. I used to play it on Mac OS X all the time.

It doesn't have an Intel binary, but that's another can of worms...

Ditto here! Runs on pre-Lion versions of OS X:

http://www.amazon.com/Age-Empires-II-Gold-Edition-Mac/dp/B000JX5M2O/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top