Fatal Error Reported By Game

[Melaciour]

whenever I try to change any graphics settings it says "Fatal Error Reported By Game" anyone know how to fix?

Thanks :D

[musketeer925]

Make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics card?

If that doesn't work, try re-installing, perhaps. Never seen this before. A quick search over at AgeComm shows no posts about this.

What graphics card do you have?

[Melaciour]

a 6870 2gb. I'll try updating the drivers and see if that helps

{update} just updated the drivers and they didn't help either...

[protonas]

I have the same issue. Whenever I try to change my game resolution I get 'Fatal Error Reported By Game' error message. I downloaded my game few minutes ago. I have gtx460 1gb, latest drivers.

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File 'Age3Log.txt' opened at Sat Jan 14 20:27:34 2012

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PreGame 6205: Game locale: English
PreGame 6579: nvCPL is unavailable.
PreGame 7262: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
PreGame 7262: Render using: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
PreGame 7262: Driver: nvd3dum.dll -- version 8.17.12.8562
PreGame 7262: VendorID = 0x10de
PreGame 7263: DeviceID = 0xe22
PreGame 7263: SubSysID = 0x0
PreGame 7263: Revision = 0xa1
PreGame 7263: DeviceIdentifier: {D7B71E3E-4D62-11CF-C242-0C201FC2C535}
PreGame 7275: XML render config -- found vendor 0x10DE as 'NVIDIA'
PreGame 7275: XML render config -- choosing generic device configuration file 'geforce fx 6800'
PreGame 15341: Game startup complete (15.33 sec)!
PreGame 15341: ------------------------------------------------------------
PreGame 34401: Tried changing render modes, that failed, then going back to previous mode also failed.

[XenoLair]

Same problem here, but only in Asian Dynasties. Works(worked) in AOE3.

Have an HD6950 1GB on 64bit Win7.

[protonas]

OK, I managed to solve my problem manually installing directx which is located - E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Age Of Empires 3\directx and then verifying game cache. File name - "DXSETUP". Before doing verify of files I deleted completely age of empires game settings folder located - C:\Users\username\Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3. I'm not sure why steam didn't updated my directx files automatically. Now I can change my resolution and other graphics settings.

[flameifrit]

OK, I managed to solve my problem manually installing directx which is located - E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Age Of Empires 3\directx and then verifying game cache. File name - "DXSETUP". Before doing verify of files I deleted completely age of empires game settings folder located - C:\Users\username\Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3. I'm not sure why steam didn't updated my directx files automatically. Now I can change my resolution and other graphics settings.

I had the same issue however none of the above worked for me.

I did find an alternative solution however, ran the game>> alt+enter for windowed mode(may crash but don't worry)>>run game again(should be windowed now)>>change resolution>>happy dance. I run windows 7 64 bit and this worked like a charm, if you change it to the resolution of your desktop you cant even tell its in windowed mode.