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Here are two screenshots. First how the game resizes the window and then when the play starts it gives me this horrible display where window resizes to accomodate 1280x1024 resolution, but fails and then falls back to previous size, but display is really wrong and game cursor and play is unusable.
After few more test,I got to the bottom of this. My monitor is Apple 20" with resolution of 1680x1050. With the Mac menu line above and the Fusion title bar, there is no 1024px available for the actual VM. so, if I set 1280x1024 in the game settings, Age tries to switch to that, Fusion then intercepts this and shortens the vertical resolution and the game display goes haywire.
If I set the game into 1024x768, then it works and display is ok. I tried also to start in this resolution, swtich to full screen - up to this point all is fine. Then inside the game, while I'm still in full screen and there should be 1024px available in height, the switch also fu*ks-up the graphics like in the attachments.
AoE II is hardly usable in 1024 and 1280 is the eons more usable for game play. Can something please be done with this mode switching? I believe the fault is on Fusion side, as it somehow intercepts the Age video mode swtiching and thus causes the game to render itself badly.
After few more test,I got to the bottom of this. My monitor is Apple 20" with resolution of 1680x1050. With the Mac menu line above and the Fusion title bar, there is no 1024px available for the actual VM. so, if I set 1280x1024 in the game settings, Age tries to switch to that, Fusion then intercepts this and shortens the vertical resolution and the game display goes haywire.
If I set the game into 1024x768, then it works and display is ok. I tried also to start in this resolution, swtich to full screen - up to this point all is fine. Then inside the game, while I'm still in full screen and there should be 1024px available in height, the switch also fu*ks-up the graphics like in the attachments.
AoE II is hardly usable in 1024 and 1280 is the eons more usable for game play. Can something please be done with this mode switching? I believe the fault is on Fusion side, as it somehow intercepts the Age video mode swtiching and thus causes the game to render itself badly.
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AoE II in windowed mode.png (1.1 MB)
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Well, I hope that this isn't an off-topic since I run my VMware Workstation on WinXP Pro SP3. The OS is Win98 SE. I use this OS not only for old games, but for some testing. Well, AOE2 is my favourite. And I wanted to play it. But WinXP somehow doesn't want me to :-/ The problem with DirectDraw appears everytime when I try to start the game. But so much with WInXP. Back to Win98 
So, I installed DirectX 6.1a (I think that was the version) which was on the CD with AOE2 (Age of Kings forgot to mention). I use 800x600 resolution. When I start AOE2, a black screen appears...And thats it. Even if I send Crl+Alt+Del via the VMware Workstation menu, nothing changes. No sound, no picture...Nothing. I have to restart the VM. I remember an year ago or so with a previous version of VMware Workstation I had no problem running this game. It didn't matter the color depth or the resolution. But now it can't start. Any help appriciated! Thanks in advance.
EDIT: It works FINALLY! Okay, here is a simple solution that may force you to reinstall a couple of times the video drivers and VMware Tool. This works for Win98, but I think it will work for WinXP too. Set the screen resolution to 800x600 and the color depth to 256 colors. The desktop might look crap*y, but AOE2 looks as usual - perfect You won't be able to play the game in a different resolution though (this is - 800x600). I used DirectX 6 (included in the CD). Don't remember to be doing all that configurations with my old version of VMware Workstation. Something's different in the new one and not in the good way 
So, I installed DirectX 6.1a (I think that was the version) which was on the CD with AOE2 (Age of Kings forgot to mention). I use 800x600 resolution. When I start AOE2, a black screen appears...And thats it. Even if I send Crl+Alt+Del via the VMware Workstation menu, nothing changes. No sound, no picture...Nothing. I have to restart the VM. I remember an year ago or so with a previous version of VMware Workstation I had no problem running this game. It didn't matter the color depth or the resolution. But now it can't start. Any help appriciated! Thanks in advance.EDIT: It works FINALLY! Okay, here is a simple solution that may force you to reinstall a couple of times the video drivers and VMware Tool. This works for Win98, but I think it will work for WinXP too. Set the screen resolution to 800x600 and the color depth to 256 colors. The desktop might look crap*y, but AOE2 looks as usual - perfect
You won't be able to play the game in a different resolution though (this is - 800x600). I used DirectX 6 (included in the CD). Don't remember to be doing all that configurations with my old version of VMware Workstation. Something's different in the new one and not in the good way