Comments on: Making Age of Mythology work in Parallels

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:19:34 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks! This worked perfectly for me on my iMac 27″ Late 2009 model running Parallels 6.0.12106

By: Hamza

Hamza — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:33:02 +0000

When I Run AOMX.exe It Gives an Error Initialization failed……….
Please help ME…..
I have a DELL OPTIPLEX GX520………

By: Pingu

Pingu — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:03:41 +0000

Thank you so much! It works with Parallels 6 .

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?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:44:53 +0000

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

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:56:07 +0000

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.

By: Sesary

Sesary — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:02:13 +0000

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.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:29:55 +0000

Great patch thank you so much!!!

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:25:24 +0000

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

By: Will

Will — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:47:02 +0000

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!

By: James

James — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:54:52 +0000

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