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So I found the CD set of Age of Empires 3 in a old box and decided to install it on my windowsWindows 10 laptop. The install went fine nothing wrong there, but when I try to start up AoE it'll bring youit will show a screen that has the play , uninstall , website and exit as the options and I'll. When I click on play. The screen it shows the loading screen and then an error pops up that says Initialization Failed. I tried enabling compatibility mode, but that didn't work so I'm here hoping someone else has had the same issue. 

Just as a quick clarification THIS IS NOT THE STEAM VERSION (AGE OF EMPIRES III: COLLECTIONS) THIS THE REGULAR CD VERSION, (AGE OF EMPIRES III).This is not the Steam version (Age of Empires III: Collections), this is the regular CD version (Age of Empires III).

So I found the CD set of Age of Empires 3 in a old box and decided to install it on my windows 10 laptop. The install went fine nothing wrong there, but when I try to start up AoE it'll bring you a screen that has the play uninstall website exit as the options and I'll click on play. The screen shows the loading screen and then an error pops up that says Initialization Failed. I tried enabling compatibility mode, but that didn't work so I'm here hoping someone else has had the same issue. Just as a quick clarification THIS IS NOT THE STEAM VERSION (AGE OF EMPIRES III: COLLECTIONS) THIS THE REGULAR CD VERSION (AGE OF EMPIRES III).

So I found the CD set of Age of Empires 3 in a old box and decided to install it on my Windows 10 laptop. The install went fine nothing wrong there, but when I try to start up AoE it will show a screen that has play, uninstall, website and exit as the options. When I click on play it shows the loading screen and then an error pops up that says Initialization Failed. I tried enabling compatibility mode, but that didn't work so I'm here hoping someone else has had the same issue. 

Just as a quick clarification, This is not the Steam version (Age of Empires III: Collections), this is the regular CD version (Age of Empires III).

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Age of Empires 3 "Initialization Failed"

So I found the CD set of Age of Empires 3 in a old box and decided to install it on my windows 10 laptop. The install went fine nothing wrong there, but when I try to start up AoE it'll bring you a screen that has the play uninstall website exit as the options and I'll click on play. The screen shows the loading screen and then an error pops up that says Initialization Failed. I tried enabling compatibility mode, but that didn't work so I'm here hoping someone else has had the same issue. Just as a quick clarification THIS IS NOT THE STEAM VERSION (AGE OF EMPIRES III: COLLECTIONS) THIS THE REGULAR CD VERSION (AGE OF EMPIRES III).