16-09-2021

Steam Age Of Empires 3 Initialization Failed

I need some help. I have messed up my installation of aoe3 and now it does not work.
Situation : I had installed aoe3 complete collection normally in C (OS) drive. But, later I needed space in C, so i cut the whole aoe3 folder and pasted in D drive. Now, when I click on age3y.exe it says 'Initialization Failed. Could not load DATAPY.BAR'. Also, when i click to age3x.exe it says 'Initialization Failed. Could not load DATAPX.BAR' , similarly when i click age3.exe , i get 'Initialization Failed. Could not load DATAP.BAR'.
I know, uninstalling / reinstalling will 99% fix it, but that would be my last resort.
Any help would be appreciated.
This error which some people have reported seems to happen mostly if you run a widescreen monitor. I believe the problem has been fixed since the demo was put together so it will work in the full version of the game.

I actually got the error on my own machine when I installed the demo and I've found I think two work arounds on my own machine to fix it.

1.) Delete the file NewProfile.xml in your /Age of Empires 3 Trial/Users/NewProfile.xml directory.
1A.) Set your screen resolution to 1024x768, then rerun the game.

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2.) Open NewProfile.xml and fine the line that specifies the optiongrfxres and change the res to say 1024x768. In my particular case it was initializing to 1280x768, which my machine did not like much.

For some reason it initializes to a resolution some video cards have problems with if you have a widescreen monitor (I have the 24' widescreen at home and had this problem)

This video tutorial will show you how to solve problem Initialization Failed of Age of Empire game that it's show message error. Go to: control panel -progr. Dec 07, 2015 Windows 10 Initialization failed I have purchased AoE III Complete but i cant start the game. I receive 'Initialization failed' whenever start it, i tried to use compatibility with Windows XP SP3 and run as admin but it hasnt worked.

It seems to only happen the first time you run the game, I believe once you get it up and running once, it doesn't happen again.

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Hope this helps, it worked for me.

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P.S. Please reply if this worked for you. It seems about half the help threads are about this issue.

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[This message has been edited by ES_PieThief (edited 09-08-2005 @ 00:44 AM).]