1)
I've been playing aoe2 on windows for years, until win7 showed up. then, whenever i wanted to play it, i had to run .bat file that would terminate explorer.exe process and start it up after i quit the game. otherwise, i'd had red trees, brown sea, pale would be yellow,...
now, i've installed windows 8. after installation, i started .bat file, since win 8 also has aero theme etc, to find out that colors aren't fixed that way. so i thought that i should run it without .bat
colors of the environment are normal (almost), but the text is unreadable, and stuff.
anyway, i was wondering how to fix colors in win8?

2)
almost every time i start it, i get bsod, which wouldn't be much of a problem if my computer wouldn't take so much time to restart. so, is there a way to fix that?

thanx,
mirac7

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EDIT:
I'd post a screenshot if i woldn't be getting a black square every time.

I'd apprechiate if somebody would give me a suggestion...

Thanks, I'll try to figure something out by myself...

But, I do have one question. How come is the environment in correct color if both Win7 and Win8 are using the same aero theme and everything

It seems Windows 8 manages to run older software better than Win 7: An oldie like Moto Racer (1997) that runs in 16bit colors smooth and without compatibility settings tweaked. But unfortunately AOE2 is not fixed yet for me either.

is there a way to solve it, like in the win7 when you'd terminate explorer, can it be solved now?

Ah, what a great game. Seems like I always see posts like this, whether it was Vista, 7, or 8. Is there a simple compatability troubleshooter you can use?

I don't think that game will ever die, much like CS. I have an extra winXP computer here JUST for that game