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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Known Bugs, Crashes & Community Fixes
About this game
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is a remastered real time strategy classic that spans 1,000 years of history and offers over 200 hours of gameplay. It upgrades the original with 4K Ultra HD visuals, a fully remastered soundtrack, and extensive new content, including “The Last Khans” with three campaigns and four civilizations. The game now also bundles the “Lords of the West,” “Dynasties of India,” and “Dawn of the Dukes” expansions with the base experience. Play through all original and expansion campaigns, then head online to battle for global dominance with more than 45 civilizations. Ongoing updates add events, additional modes, enhanced features, Quick Play, UI improvements, and continued Scenario Editor support.
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- Navigate to C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp.
- Give your active user full permission to the %TEMP% folder.
- Run the game to see if the error is resolved.
- If the error persists, check for a file named AOE2DE_TEMP in the %TEMP% folder.
- If it does not exist, create the file and give it full permission.
- Run the game again.
Update your GPU drivers to the latest version.

Reinstall DirectX and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables to replace damaged or missing files required by the game.

Verify game files in Steam.

System requirements
Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64x2 5600+
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6850 or Intel® HD Graphics 4000 or better with 2 GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 15 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10 64bit
- Processor: 2.4 Ghz i5 or greater or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GTX 650 or AMD HD 5850 or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 15 GB available space