This blog post talks about how you can fix the Age of Mythology issue “Initialization Failed”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
UPDATE: Thanks to DeclaredInsane who says that also adding “xres=800” to the shortcut fixes more problems for him also, I have added this to the article \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently i installed Age of Mythology on my Windows 7 laptop and sadly when i started it up it failed to load the first cinematic and then crashed giving an error “Initialization Failed”. I spent a while googling various solutions i found a fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you append “xres=800 +noIntroCinematics” without the quotes to the end of the shortcut to run the game, it didn’t load the introduction cinematic, and it worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This worked for my Age of Mythology with the Titans Expansion pack installed on Windows 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full shortcut path was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Games\\Age of Mythology\\aomx.exe\" xres=800 +noIntroCinematics<\/pre>\n\n\n\nBut this will differ depending on where you have installed it, if you have used the default settings it should point to the above location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s not entirely surprising that this game has some issues since it was released in 2002. If you haven’t played it, i would definitely recommend picking up a copy online, it can’t be very expensive now it’s relatively old, but I cant guarantee it will work on any systems. If you have issues installing or using it, leave a comment and I will see what I can do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edit: If the above doesnt work, try using either of the below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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