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Age of Mythology: Minimum system requirements

Article ID:331403
Last Review:November 14, 2007
Revision:5.9
This article was previously published under Q331403
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SUMMARY

This article contains a list of the minimum system requirements for Microsoft Age of Mythology and Microsoft Age of Mythology: The Titans.

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The minimum system requirements for Age of Mythology are:
One of the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP

Note Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT are not supported.
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM.
Approximately 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard-disk space.
16 MB 3D video card is required; 32 MB video card is recommended.
DirectX 8.0-compatible sound card with speakers or headphones.
Multimedia computer with a Pentium 450 megahertz (MHz)-or-higher processor.
4x CD-ROM.
Microsoft Mouse or other compatible pointing device.
The following hardware is optional:
A 56-kilobits-per-second (kbps) modem for multiplayer games with one to four players.
Broadband or local area network (LAN) for multiplayer games with five or more players.
The minimum system requirements for Age of Mythology: The Titans are:
One of the following operating systems
Windows 98
Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Multimedia computer with a Pentium 450 MHz-or-higher processor.
128 MB of RAM.
16 MB 3D video card.
Approximately 450 MB of available hard-disk space.
32x CD-ROM Drive.
56.6 kbps or better for Internet play.

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Supported video hardware

Age of Mythology requires a minimum of 16 MB of memory for video display. Additionally, Age of Mythology must pass a system check when you startthe game. If the game does not pass a system check, you receive the following error message:
This graphics card is not supported by Age of Mythology.
If your video hardware is classified as "supported," Age of Mythology is expected to work with that hardware. If your hardware is not supported, contact Microsoft Help and Support. See the following "Unsupported video hardware" section for details about unsupported hardware.

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Unsupported video hardware

The following video hardware was not supported at the time that Microsoft Age of Mythology: Gold Edition was released. For information about how to upgrade your video hardware, see the Video Card 101 article. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/dunn_03august11_vc.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/dunn_03august11_vc.mspx)
3dfx
Voodoo Banshee
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 1
Voodoo_Rush(Macronix based reference board)
Voodoo_Rush(Alliance AT25/AT3D based reference board)
3D Labs
Glint_300SX
Glint_500TX
Glint_Delta
Permedia
Glint_MX
Gamma
P2S(ST)
R3
R4
G2
ATI
RAGE PRO
RAGE IIC AGP
RAGE IIC PCI
RAGE II+
RAGE II
RAGE MOBILITY M/M1/P (RAGE XL based)
RAGE LT-PRO (RAGE PRO based)
RAGE LT (RAGE II based)
Chromatic Research
All manufactured hardware
Cirrus Logic
CL6729
CL5446
CL5462
CL5464
CL5465
CL4610
CL4614
Other Cirrus Logic-manufactured hardware
Intel
740
Matrox
G200 AGP
G200 PCI
G100 AGP
G100 PCI
Millennium2 AGP
Millennium2 PCI
Millennium
Mystique
Neo-Magic
All manufactured hardware
Number9
All manufactured hardware
Oak Technologies
All manufactured hardware
Rendition
Verite 1000
Verite 2100
Verite 2200
Other Rendition-manufactured hardware
S3
Savage2000
Virge_VX
Virge_MX/MV
Virge_MX+
Virge_MX
Virge_GX2
Virge_DX/GX
Trio64V2_DX/GX
Trio64UV+
Aurora64V+
Aurora128
VIA/S3G UniChrome
STB (nVidia)
Riva 128
Other STB-manufactured hardware
Texas Instruments(3D Labs)
Permedia1
Tseng Labs
All manufactured hardware
VIA
Savage2000
Virge_VX
Virge_MX/MV
Virge_MX+
Virge_MX
Virge_GX2
Virge_DX/GX
Trio64V2_DX/GX
Trio64UV+
Aurora64V+
Aurora128

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Microsoft Age of Mythology
Microsoft Age of Mythology Gold
Microsoft Age of Mythology: The Titans

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