Two instances of EE-AOC.exe appear in Task Manager, only to disappear a few seconds later. It seems that everyone has different symptoms.įor me, EE works perfectly without any compatibility settings, but when trying to load EE-AoC, nothing happens.

If anyone has questions feel free to ask. I am not the creator of this solution it was found here. For EE1 I just run the game by setting compatibility mode to XP and running as administrator. I'm using Windows 8 and this works for me. It will resume explorer.exe when you exit the game.

At many points during this process you maybe prompted to run as admin, just go ahead and accept it.The game should launch without any issues. ico files are already in your EE2 directory just choose to change icon and navigate to the EE2 directory.Ħ) Just to be safe right click and run the new shortcut as administrator. You can then modify the icon if you would like. For example, Computer/C:/all programs/sierra/empire earth2.ĭrag and drop the file that you just created into that folder.ĥ) Right click the EE2.bat file and send to desktop. Just copy the text below.ģ) Click save as,(save it on your desktop so you can find it easier), name it:ģA) If you are doing this for the expansion just save as.Ĥ) Go to where Empire Earth 2 is saved. At this point you should have Empire Earth 2 installed.Ģ) Copy and Paste into note pad the following, as is:ĢA) Please note if you would like to do the same for the expansion just change the EE2.exe to EE2x.exe. I found a solution on a Microsoft community help page.

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