Thrawn's Revenge

Imperial Civil War [Empire at War] => Imperial Civil War Tech Support => Topic started by: Augustus Lucius Flavius on November 24, 2013, 12:19:41 AM

Title: Empire at War refuses to start on Windows 8
Post by: Augustus Lucius Flavius on November 24, 2013, 12:19:41 AM

I have been playing Empire at War on this computer for about a year and a half now and it has just decided to say that Empire at War is incompatible. How do I fix this? I have the RAM patch and all the rest but it still gives me problems.

Title: Re: Empire at War refuses to start on Windows 8
Post by: Rovert10 on November 24, 2013, 05:38:32 PM

Try running EaW in compatibility mode with a previous version of Windows?

Title: Re: Empire at War refuses to start on Windows 8
Post by: Enceladus on November 27, 2013, 03:05:31 PM

What Rovert said. Using the compatibility settings tool in Windows 8 is what made it work for me. Another heads up is that it may not recognize your graphics card versus your built-in one. You can fix this by just using the Nvidia control panel or ATI control center to force your graphics card to associate itself with that program.

Title: Re: Empire at War refuses to start on Windows 8
Post by: bobafett99 on December 08, 2013, 11:34:03 PM

Look at my thread about the same thing
it worked

Title: Re: Empire at War refuses to start on Windows 8
Post by: Augustus Lucius Flavius on December 20, 2013, 01:17:36 PM

Thanks everybody for the help.  It is working again so good, but bad is it decided to fix itself so I have no clue what happened.  Sorry for the late reply.  I will keep these in mind if it happens again.