Rise Of Nations Windows 7

Developed by SkyBox Labs and published by Microsoft, Rise of Nations: Extended Edition boasts improved graphics, runs on Windows 7/8.1, and includes the Thrones & Patriots expansion.
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2014-06-13: Rise of Nations on Steam! Developed by SkyBox Labs and published by Microsoft, Rise of Nations: Extended Edition boasts improved graphics, runs on Windows 7/8.1, and includes the Thrones & Patriots expansion. Multiplayer and other online features are now based on Steam. Generally, this is the preferred way to play Rise of Nations on modern systems.

The rest of this page refers to older disk-based versions of the game. If you already own one and have a low-powered system, e.g. an ultrabook with integrated GPU, you might wish stay away from the Steam version as its performance requirements are significantly higher than the original’s. My Sony Vaio Duo 13 runs the original effortlessly but responds to the new version with a howling fan and a rapidly depleting battery, regardless of the graphics options I pick.

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Running the Disk Version

One game I put on every new Windows installation is Brian Reynolds’ Rise of Nations, originally released in 2003 and followed by the excellent expansion Thrones & Patriots in 2004.

Sadly, this real-time strategy classic had the misfortune of being a Windows game published by Microsoft. The company was already shifting its gaming focus from Windows to Xbox, and today you’re lucky to even find a legal copy. (Ten years later it’s finally come to Steam, see above.) The cheap DVD re-release I eventually managed to find dates from 2007.

The result is that Rise of Nations won’t run on modern systems without some help. On my 64-bit version of Windows 8 Pro, the game was unplayable due to a badly flickering screen and an invisible mouse cursor. Happily, I was able to fix these issues with a few simple tweaks. Once you’ve installed the game and its expansion as usual, do the following:

Open the file 'C:Users<UserName>AppDataRoamingMicrosoft GamesRise of Nationsrise2.ini' in Notepad or another text editor. Replace <UserName> with your Windows user name.
Change the line VSync=1 to VSync=0. This eliminates the screen flickering.
Change the line ForceGDICursor=0 to ForceGDICursor=1. This eliminates the invisible or immobile mouse cursor produced by other cursor settings.
Optional: Change the line ForceAGPVBs=0 to ForceAGPVBs=1. I didn’t test this myself but two commenters said it eliminated screen flickering and visual corruption with integrated graphics. You may also need to set ForceStaticCursor=1. (Thanks Daniel & James Wyper!)
Since you’re probably using a high-resolution monitor, change AllowAllResolutions=0 to AllowAllResolutions=1 and change Windowed Width and Windowed Height to your monitor’s resolution. These two settings apply to full-screen mode despite the “Windowed” moniker.
That’s it for the file rise2.ini, so you can save and close it now.
The desktop shortcut created by my version’s installer was set to Windows XP (SP3) compatibility mode, but I found that unnecessary. Disable that option if it’s enabled, and save yourself the UAC prompt on every start-up.

And so I got Rise of Nations and Thrones & Patriots back up and running on Windows 8. I hope these settings will work for you as well. Good luck!

Patch the Game (2015-05-06) — James Wyper commented that you need patch version 1.03 for the above tips to work. I was unaware of this, as my DVD edition was likely pre-patched to that version. If you cannot find rise2.ini you should first check that you’re running version 1.03 and not an older release.

Repairing MS XML (2013-03-13) — Uninstalling Age of Empires 3 Complete seems to destroy the MS XML library required by Rise of Nations. Fortunately, it’s easy to get back. With my multilingual DVD edition of Rise of Nations Gold, all I had to do was run RONUKREDISTMSXMLENU.MSI and select “Repair.” Change paths and/or language codes as needed. This should help whenever the game complains on startup that something’s wrong with MS XML.

Download rise[2].ini (2013-12-02) — Some commenters said they found the directory for rise2.ini but it doesn’t contain the file itself, for whatever reason. First, check that your game is patched to version 1.03 as noted above. As a workaround if you still cannot find the files I have put both rise.ini and rise2.ini from my installation up for download, as RiseIni.zip.

I added rise.ini just in case it’s also involved in Rise of Nations not working. I lowered the screen resolution in rise2.ini to a safe 1024×768, otherwise both files are unchanged. They don’t seem to contain any user data and only relative file paths, so hopefully they’ll work on other systems.

Relocation Notice (2014-02-16) — This post originally appeared on the companion weblog. Due to its consistently high traffic, I changed it into a static website page. All comments were moved here as well, although Disqus cannot import avatars or author links – see the original comment thread for those.

Topic Subject:

Windows 7 rons does run in it

posted 11-30-09 02:20 PM EDT (US) i forgot to post this a few weeks back. mewp: a word to describe awesomeness in its supreme form. EoB Heraclies gets a hard-on from noobs. Damn, you got me. I just wish I knew how to make quality threads like you do. -Blatant7
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posted 11-30-09 06:09 PM EDT (US) 1 / 19

So I suppose you have Windows 7.
How is that? Can you play many games on it? Is it fast?

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posted 11-30-09 09:02 PM EDT (US) 2 / 19

yes it is pretty fast with an average machine.

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posted 12-17-09 05:54 AM EDT (US) 3 / 19

iwe tested ron on win7 X64, works fine :O

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posted 12-17-09 01:00 PM EDT (US) 4 / 19

That's pretty cool that you can play RoN with Windows 7. Does it work with Vista?

posted 12-17-09 03:08 PM EDT (US) 5 / 19

probably with some smal adjustments from what i've heard.

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posted 12-17-09 03:35 PM EDT (US) 6 / 19

It works fine right out of the box with Vista (or at least, it did on my system).

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posted 12-17-09 04:36 PM EDT (US) 7 / 19

Yeah it works on my Vista (32 bit) like a charm. I did not adjust anything on it.

posted 12-30-09 09:22 AM EDT (US) 8 / 19

I have tried to run RONTAP on my Windows 7 machine. It runs normally for the most part, but then it will 'freeze' for a minute or two (or sometimes even longer) and then suddenly start back up. The weird thing is, the game will not resume from the freeze point, but it will assume that those lost minutes have actually happened in-game. So, say the freeze starts when I have 200 Food. If it lasts for a minute or two, I might suddenly find the game resuming with 500 Food.
If there's any combat going on at all, this freezing makes the game pretty much unplayable. I am still trying to solve this problem, so if anybody has managed to get the game running on Windows 7, I would be very grateful for some pointers!

Install Rise Of Nations Windows 7

posted 12-30-09 09:26 AM EDT (US) 9 / 19

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT.

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EoB Heraclies gets a hard-on from noobs.
Damn, you got me. I just wish I knew how to make quality threads like you do. -Blatant7

posted 12-30-09 10:58 AM EDT (US) 10 / 19

So basically your screen is 'frozen', but the game is still going on in your CPU.
Yeah, that is some weird lag... especially if it goes on for a minute.

posted 12-30-09 01:46 PM EDT (US) 11 / 19

Crue Knight has summarized it very well.
lolcatz31... not so well.
So, anybody with any tips on getting it working? My brother has tried to play the game on his W7 computer as well, and he's found exactly the same problem.

posted 01-02-10 06:36 PM EDT (US) 12 / 19

I got windows 7 and Rise Of Nations. Everything starts up fine, even loads up to 100% and says 'file copy complete'. Then from there, it will stay at that position. Anyone who had this issue and resolved it?

posted 01-03-10 09:05 PM EDT (US) 13 / 19

was my computa specail?

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EoB Heraclies gets a hard-on from noobs.
Damn, you got me. I just wish I knew how to make quality threads like you do. -Blatant7

posted 01-06-10 11:47 AM EDT (US) 14 / 19

RoN works perfectly on my windows 7 laptop, except there's no building colors, so its hard 2 tell whose buildings are whose

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Rise Of Nations For Windows 7

posted 01-06-10 08:23 PM EDT (US) 15 / 19

Hi there, Im using windows 7 too. RoN did work in my laptop but the problem is the mouse icon cant move... it stucks there in the middle of the screen... what can i do to fix it?

Rise Of Nations Won't Work On Windows 7

posted 01-13-10 05:01 PM EDT (US) 16 / 19

Still trying to get my copy of RONTAP to work in W7. As described above, it 'hangs' for up to several minutes, but the game CPU is still working in the background. When it suddenly starts back up, it compresses the entire hang time into a burst of progress. So AIs will react as if they've been active the whole time (with more buildings and combat commands, etc.) but my nation will only have its cumulative resource collection. Basically the game treats me as if I've been AFK for a few minutes. As you can imagine in a time-sensitive RTS, this makes the game unplayable.
Another symptom that I forgot to mention was this: Each time it hangs and recovers, the mouse pointer 'clicks' on a lower pixel. So say it starts off 'clicking' on the pointy end of the arrowhead. After one hang, it's the middle of the arrowhead. After two hangs, it's actually the stem of the arrowhead. After three hangs, it's an invisible point a few more pixels down and right of the icon itself.
Again, this makes the game hard to play.

posted 02-20-10 01:27 PM EDT (US) 17 / 19

^ I'm still trying to solve this problem and making no progress. Can anybody help?
The more time goes by, the more my interest in the game weakens as I find other games to mod.

posted 03-04-10 02:02 PM EDT (US) 18 / 19

I tried switching it from dual core to single core. This may make it more stable but it appears that it can still crash or become unresponsive.

[This message has been edited by HuManBing (edited 03-05-2010 @ 07:45 PM).]

posted 08-23-10 11:57 AM EDT (US) 19 / 19

I've moved up to windows 7 and now I'm getting 'MSXML 4.0 is not properly installed' error when it is booting up. so I reinstalled only to get the same error message. It use to work just fine now I am shut out. help.

Rise Of Nations Windows 7 Compatibility

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