On Monday, it read ' Game Initialization failed: Game dependent init failed. However, after that day, I can no longer get the darn thing to start. Make sure to link your new Xbox Live account to the Microsoft account you used to purchase Age of Empires: Definitive Edition.) If your issue continues, check your firewall software (if you have any) settings: Ensure that TCP Port 8888, as well as Port 3478 (UDP & TCP) and Port 5222 (UDP & TCP) are open and forwarded, then repeat the steps above. It seems about half the help threads are about this issue. posted 01-15-08 05:26 PM EDT (US) I bought AOE III and The Asian Dynasties expansion pack on Sunday, and was able to get it started that day and enjoy playing it. It seems to only happen the first time you run the game, I believe once you get it up and running once, it doesn't happen again. In my particular case it was initializing to 1280x768, which my machine did not like much.įor some reason it initializes to a resolution some video cards have problems with if you have a widescreen monitor (I have the 24' widescreen at home and had this problem) I actually got the error on my own machine when I installed the demo and I've found I think two work arounds on my own machine to fix it.ġ.) Delete the file NewProfile.xml in your /Age of Empires 3 Trial/Users/NewProfile.xml directory.ġA.) Set your screen resolution to 1024x768, then rerun the game.Ģ.) Open NewProfile.xml and fine the line that specifies the optiongrfxres and change the res to say 1024x768. I believe the problem has been fixed since the demo was put together so it will work in the full version of the game. This error which some people have reported seems to happen mostly if you run a widescreen monitor.

Age of empires initialization failed