Hey All!
I’ve been having this same problem ever since i bought the game back in November. Never been able to play the game for more than 25 minutes without my entire computer restarting. People are correct that Age of Empire II is not able to reboot the computer but other things on the computer can.
Here is what i have found. I fixed the issue, hope it works for you.
The ultimate fix i found was running AoE in compatibility mode for windows 8.
Article on how to run steam games in compatibility mode below.
Some other things i found.
I also disabled a setting in windows that would auto restart my PC .
Article about turning off auto restart in windows 10
There is also a service in windows 10 called “Software Protection Service” <— this is what got me looking past game settings and start to troubleshoot my PC and windows. I saw an event for this every time in my logs in the Event viewer | windows logs | system , right before my PC started. I was going to post an article about it, but I’m new so i can only post two articles.
I hope this helps some of you!
Game on!
My Build:
Intel i7-4790k
Graphics: NVIDIA Gigabyte 1080 Ti 11 GB
RAM 32 GB Corsair Vengeance
Motherboard: Gigabyte z97 - gaming 7
Windows 10 Pro