I am a new member, and came here out of desperation.
I recently bought the extended version on Steam, having played the original waaaaaay back just after it was released.
I have finished the campaign and watched the tutorials for the Athenians and the Chinese, but whenever I try to play a random map, the game loads the bar fully, then quits the game and returns to my desktop.
I am playing on a Windows 10 home laptop, Strong enough to handle graphics that is more demanding.
Has anyone else had this problem and managed to solve it.
Do you have the latest public patch 2.7 version installed?
If not please enable it by right clicking Age of Mythology in your Steam game library, choose properties and then go to beta tab and select patch-2.7-public-beta- in the drop-down list.
After that the game will update to latest version.
Please as precautionary measure to overcome any permission related problems make sure you launch the Steam client as administrator before changing the setting on the beta tab and running the game after downloading the updates.
Thank you for the welcome. I do have the expansion. after you posted I have removed the game and downloaded again, and the update was also downloaded.
I am going to be honest and say that I think that Steam is run as administrator… But I do not know if I have done all of that right…
I did try and play again, and it does the same thing…
You can run Steam as administrator by closing it first and then right click the Steam client shortcut and choose ‘run as administrator’.
Actually it should not matter but it does with certain software installations. Also this should be handled by the Steam or software package itself in those cases, but sometimes it doesn’t or people just say no (to the UAC make changes to your system question).
I think the 2.7 patch works more like a mod, so I don’t expect the cause to be with the installation of it.
Also you can play the campaigns without any problem.
Could you post a screenshot of you random game settings (the screen before you press start)?
Your Windows is up-to-date. Thanks for posting back the info.
Did you also try to create a new settings profile?
Go to your options menu and from there in your upper left hand corner where it says “Profile” and “User Profiles” click “Add” and make a new User Profile name.
