Now I’m not a gamer, but I do like to have the occasional multiplayer game of Age of Mythology or Age of Empires. When I purchased the upgrade to Parallels 4 earlier in the year I was disappointed to find Age of Mythology wouldn’t run on it.
You wil get the error message “This graphics card is not supported by Age of Mythology”, etc.
I did some research and found a forum post by awittenauer which pointed me in the right direction. By copying existing GFX files and modifying them so that AoM would recognise the Parallels Video Driver, I was able to get it working easily. I imagine this process should work for other games if you are receiving a similar message.
- First, download my Parallels GFX Config Files
- Unzip and copy the contents into the gfxconfig folders of your game. In my case this was C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\gfxconfig & gfxconfig2.
- You should now be able to run the game.
If you are still having trouble getting it working, or want to add support for different resolutions, open up the parallels.gfx file in Notepad. Here you can customise resolution options etc.
Please let me know how you get on! Thanks again to awittenauer for the idea..
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Thank you James, it worked for me. Except that on my 15″ 1440×900 native display when I select that resolution in the AOM options it still does not fill the whole screen (leaving about 5cm around all sides black). I wonder why that is…
Thanks Sam, that’s frustrating. What version of Parallels are you running? In the VM configuration in the video tab there is a checkbox ‘adjust the host computer’s screen resolution in full screen’, which is unchecked on mine; could be another setting to try changing?
thanks for this patch!
i`m now running age of mythology in windows 7.
no problems so far
Thanks so much. I found my old Age of Mythology disc today and after many feelings of nostalgia, I wanted to play it.. but since the last time I played it(5 years ago.. O.O), I had gotten a Mac, and after installing it on Parallels, it wouldn’t work. After much frustration, I found your solution. Now I may indulge in delicious childhood memories of playing this game for 8 hours every day when I got home from school.
Do you have something that will work for the Titans expansion, I have been looking everywhere online and cannot find a solution.
Hi Cory, this works for Titans expansion for me, have you tried it out? Cheers
So, I am running Parallels 5.0 and your patch worked great to get the game running (my son will be so happy). The problem I am having is that the VM window is automatically resizing to about 1/4 of the full monitor size. I have looked for the box in the VM configuration window noted above but I can’t seem to find it. Any chance someone can give me a little more direction?
Thanks
Oh yeah, we are still running XP on our machine in case that matters.
Hi Rob, have you tried putting Parallels in full screen mode?
I haven’t actually tried this out in Parallels 5, I should probably do that sometime and see if I can work out how to fix it
Sam-
To get it full screen in nice resolution all you have to do is first make Parallels full screen. Then once you have AOM(x) running go into options check the Play in Window option and then set the resolution to 1600x1200x32. For Some reason AOM(x) can’t handle widescreen resolutions very well. This should put AOM in the highest possible res on your screen.
James-
Thank you for the gfx files!
Hi, I unziped the files in the folders and I am getting am error (failed to initialize) when I try to run the game.
My resolution is 1280×800.
How can I run this game in this resolution?
thanks
Great patch thank you so much!!!
Thanks so much, I can now run my AOM at last! I had been working around a solution for a while. This was so easy!
Thanks again.
Amazing =)
I’ve been searching the net for a few hours now, such a simple fix but so effective. Sham about the widescreen incompatibility but apart from that = Amazing.
Nice solution, thanks! I’ve experienced two problems with it under Parallels 6, though still playable.
1. A device lost, such as by pressing Ctrl-ESC and then going back into the game causes AoM to crash.
2. Click and drag doesn’t draw the selection rectangle, though troops still get selected as if they were.
By the way, you can get widescreen resolutions by adding xres and yres to the shortcut you use to launch it. For example:
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aomx.exe” +noIntroCinematics xres=1680 yres=1050 bpp=32
Thank you so much! It works with Parallels 6
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However, as with the post above, i’ve experienced some problems:
1. Click and drag doesn’t show the selection
2. The rectangle in the minimap doesn’t show
How can i fix these video issues?
When I Run AOMX.exe It Gives an Error Initialization failed……….
Please help ME…..
I have a DELL OPTIPLEX GX520………
Just wanted to say thanks! This worked perfectly for me on my iMac 27″ Late 2009 model running Parallels 6.0.12106