Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
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Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (otherwise affectionately known as ROL) is a less than outstanding and yet innovative and enjoyable strategy from Big Huge Games.
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Multiplayer
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends has official support over LAN and GameSpy. Although if you want to play on the internet without using gamespy you will have to use the LAN mode of gameplay, but since there is no connect to IP function, you will need a VPN that supports broadcasting.
VPNs that support broadcasting
I can't highly recommend Hamachi enough, it is incredibly easy to setup and is peer to peer which means you'll get very similar performance compared to gameplay via GameSpy. Another bonus is that when using a VPN, you don't need to setup any port forwards on your router!
Start up issues
- BSODs
- Crashes to desktop
- FixedFunction missing errors
NVidia Graphics Drivers
Tentatively I've found that it's straight out driver issues.
Working NVidia Graphics Drivers
Not an exhaustive list, just what I've tested myself;
- 84.25
Non-Working NVidia Graphics Drivers
- 84.21
- 91.31
Media:Example.ogg===Audio Drivers=== BSODs in particular can be caused by audio drivers.
Stop gap
Place the following line in My Documents\My Games\Rise of Legends\personal.ini
HardwareAudio=0
This doesn't disable audio, just hardware acceleration, which for those of us that use onboard audio solutions, really doesn't mean anything.
MSXML 4.0 is not properly installed
If you get an error message MSXML 4.0 is not properly installed then you need to install MSXML.
- Download MSXML4.0 SP2
You also might be able to find it on a disk, the file should be named msxmlenu.msi.
If even after reinstalling msxml4.0 is doesnt work, then try the following:
1) Make sure you've got the file msxml4.dll on the "c:\windows\system32" folder 2) Goto : Start -> Run 3) Execute the following: "regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\msxml4.dll"
if all goes well, then it should work now.
Audio Issues
We've had some issues with the game complaining about audio drivers and the audio in game eventually just dropping out. At this stage I've not seen a fix.
