After the recent upgrade, I’m unable to open the program.
Does anyone else have the same issue?
Try to open it from the steammaps directory (can’t remember exactly but it’s in programs(x86)/steam/steammaps…). I couldn’t open it from desktop/start but it worked there.
Didn’t work unfortunately. 
I just used it yesterday, at which step does it fail for you / how exactly does it fail?
Are the proper paths selected?
(This topic probably needs to be in a different forum section.)
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It was working perfectly before the update.
Is there any way to do basic editing? I’d just like to change a few values for my mod.
Working fine here, if you’re not already, try adding key-value-modded-strings-utf8.txt from EN files for the Language x1 location, and the key-value-paphos-strings-utf8.txt from EN files for the Language p1 location if you own Battle for Greece.
Those are the only changes I made after using the default loading settings for DE default loading path and my AGE works perfectly since the update.
If you did not too, try running as administrator, and also running it with anti malware defender software turned off they sometime cause issues.
The source code is present in the game files under the Tools_Builds directory, but you’ll have to recompile it yourself and there I can’t help you with it.
Also try to launch the AGE exectuable via cmd.exe console with a log trail printing parameter to receive info about what is happening.
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Sadly, didn’t work
I have same problem here.
Can you run AdvancedGenieEditor3.exe within command prompt to see if it gives any logs info ?
If you can provide crash logs, I can try help reading them to find out what is happening to you.
To do so, inside the “Tools_Builds” directory inside the game folders, right mouse click on nothing, “Open with command prompt” or something ressembling that words, then “start AdvancedGenieEditor3.exe” and see if the prompt provides anything then tell us the result.
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The program closes before it even opens. I checked the log, and it’s empty.
And in your process manager, anything happens ? I mean if the software isn’t starting, it’s not the same as if it crashed directly after launching.
Maybe try reinstalling age of empires 2 definitive edition with steam uninstall / install process, it will redownload the latest AGE version in the game folder.
Any way to remove Genie Editor’s previous memory?
I mean, when I try to choose the path, it still shows my previous mods. Maybe that’s the reason for the problem.
Press the definitive version button on top of the settings, it will reapply default paths.
Yeah, but I mean removing the previous mods from the memory of Genie Editor, which sadly doesn’t work.
Could anyone create this small mod for me in exchange for a coffee? 
Janissary:
- Accuracy increased from 50% to 60%
- Attack dispersion decreased from 0.75 to 0.5
Elite Janissary:
- Accuracy increased from 65% to 70%
- HP increased from 50 to 55
- Attack dispersion decreased from 0.75 to 0.5
Royal Janissary:
- Accuracy increased from 65% to 70%
- HP increased from 55 to 60
- Attack dispersion decreased from 0.75 to 0.5
Bombard Tower:
- Projectile speed increased from 3 to 4
Cannon Galleon:
- Projectile speed increased from 3.5 to 4
- Range decreased from 13 to 12
- Blast radius increased from 0.25 to 0.27
Elite Cannon Galleon:
- Projectile speed increased from 3.5 to 4
- Range decreased from 15 to 14
- Blast radius increased from 0.30 to 0.32
Lou Chuan:
- Range decreased from 10 to 9
Camel Rider:
- Gains +3 bonus damage vs. Elephant armor class
Heavy Camel Rider:
- Gains +6 bonus damage vs. Elephant armor class
Imperial Camel Rider:
- Gains +6 bonus damage vs. Elephant armor class
Skirmisher:
- Gains +1 bonus damage vs. Cavalry Archer armor class
Hand Cannoneer:
- Removed +1 damage bonus to Spearman armor class
Market:
- Initial price of food decreased from 150 gold to 140 gold.
- Initial value of gold decreased from 81 food to 76 food.
Their hp are 40, do you want 55 or 45 ?
Range is 13, do you want 9 or 12 ?
Also on elite and imperial skirm ?
No idea how to do that and too lazy to search ahaha.
45 HP so they will end up with 56 HP.
The wiki says that their anti-unit range is 10 and anti-building range is 13. So decresing both by one.
Just for the non-elite skirmisher.
Have you bought the new DLC? If so, did it solve the issue?
Hello, I’m also having the issue of can’t open AGE if I’m using the Vanilla DAT file from Base Game, but I can open and modified DAT file just fine if I’m using modder DAT file from other mod like the Krakenmeister Civ Builder DAT file, I can modified it just fine. Any help for this?