When trying to play the first time a Age of empires 3 in windows 10, it does not start by returning the generic error to the user “Initialization failed“.
Age of Empires 3 Initialization error. How to solve this problem?
By installing the “Direct Play” give her optional features on Windows 10.
Video Instructions:
Step by step instructions:
Method 1 to get to the window “Other Windows features”:
- Access the “Settings” from “Start menu“
- Click on “uninstalling, default values, optional features” in the card “Settings” just appeared
- Then on “Optional features” and finally on “Other Windows features“
- Drop down until you reach “Other Windows features“
Method 2 to get to the window “Other Windows features”:
- Log in to “File Explorer” (by clicking on the taskbar or by simultaneously pressing the two buttons “Windows” + “E“) and from the address bar write and then select from the suggested proposals “Control panel“
- Then on “Programs“
- “Programs and features“
- And finally in the left bar on “Enable or disable Windows features“
Go on (valid for both methods)… Install the “Direct Play”
- Now from the add-ons window put the check mark on the box “Legacy components” e “DirectPlay“
- Then click on “OK“. The installation (offline) it will start automatically and last one minute at worst.
Have fun with Age of Empires® 3 gives Sgnuffitech!
