Posted May 15, 2017
puppysnuff: Worked for me with some trial and error, maybe will help with others.
In doing some research, it seems that the game had issues with memory management. I vaguely remember this the first time around years ago.
What has helped me the most is putting the game into compatibility mode for Windows 98/ME. This does have one peculiar side effect of moving the savegame folder the game is looking for from:
\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Petroglyph\Empire At War\Save
to
\ProgramData\Petroglyph\Empire At War\Save
With this in mind, you'd need to move/copy your existing savegame files.
I'll note it doesn't fix the issue completely, but it sure works a heck of a lot better.
charles82: Putting it into compatibility mode for 98/ME is the only way I've got the game to run properly. Thank you. In doing some research, it seems that the game had issues with memory management. I vaguely remember this the first time around years ago.
What has helped me the most is putting the game into compatibility mode for Windows 98/ME. This does have one peculiar side effect of moving the savegame folder the game is looking for from:
\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Petroglyph\Empire At War\Save
to
\ProgramData\Petroglyph\Empire At War\Save
With this in mind, you'd need to move/copy your existing savegame files.
I'll note it doesn't fix the issue completely, but it sure works a heck of a lot better.
I don't know why but without it the game runs right maybe the first time after rebooting and then goes haywire after you load another saved game or whatever.