Age of Mythology - Crashes soon as game starts

[yowler]

Gday Everyone

Firstly I will give you my computer specs:

P4 2.8ghz
Geforce 4MX440 64mb AGP8X
512mb DDR
Sound Blaster Audigy
120gb Western Digital HDD
Win XP Pro SP1 (5.1) Build 2600
Directx 9.0b
Intel D865GBF
Bios date 09/24/03 11:07:51 Ver 08:00:09

I have just recently upgraded my computer to the following specs and you would think that I should be able to run Age of Mythology (AOM) on my computer (when I had WIN98 on a smaller system it worked perfectly).

Everytime I start playing the game, it crashes and returns to the desktop. Sometimes when I try and start the program it doesnt even load up at all. I have downloaded all the latest drivers for the hardware in my computer and tried an XP patch from the microsoft website that they had in their troubleshooting page but to no avail, it still doesnt work.

I am able to play a lot more graphic intense games like Hitman 3, GTAIII, Battlefied 1942, Black Hawk Down, as well as other Mircrosoft games but for some reason, this one game will not work. I have tried this game on my mates PC which has lower specs than mine and has a Geforce 2 card and it works perfectly on his, i tried his Graphics card in my machine and it didnt work, same problem again. Major difference between his computer and mine is the operating system. He still runs WIN98 and im on XP (Acccck I hate XP)

I have checked eventvwr when this problem occurs and this is what it comes up with:

"The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: 7."

I have no idea what this means. The Event Id and the source are blank so I am unable to check the microsoft site to match it to the error code. Would this have something to do with user permissions on XP?

Please Helllpppp...

Cheers Guys n Gals

Yowler

[ninjapixie]

Did you ever find an answer to this problem as a friend is having the same trouble?

[ruzakruzak]

Maybe try to DL the last AoM patch from M$ website, and run Windowsupdate just to ensure your system's up-to-date.
Then retry and tell us, OK. ??

[matt012]

Is AOM on a burnt disk? Or is it a version that you bought new? Sometimes copies of games don't always work right.

[saphalline]

When you installed the game, was it clean or did something go wrong (ie random reboot, incomplete installation the first time, unusually long install time, etc)? Was the game previously installed on that machine at any time? How long has it been since you reinstalled Windows? Do you have virtual memory turned off, or have it set too low?