
Out of experience, I’ve found that selecting the LAN option in AOE2 doesn’t always show the game and instead you need to enter the IP address when prompted after selecting the TCP/IP option.
#AGE OF EMPIRES 3 LAN NOT WORKING UPDATE#
Get the latest update for Age of Empires 2 here. Make sure that the game versions match between players.If you check Windows Update to make sure that there are no available updates, it’s another thing to strike off the list. There’s no excuse not to keep your copy of Windows up to date, especially since you can enable Automatic Updates to do it for you. You can download it direct from Microsoft, here.
#AGE OF EMPIRES 3 LAN NOT WORKING INSTALL#
If you don’t have the latest version of DirectX, it’ll download and install it for you.

You can verify this by downloading the DirectX web installer. You should really consider making sure that you have the latest version of DirectX installed.

This guide might be quite useful to work through as a checklist if you’re having problems connecting in Age of Empires II.

After having spent an incredibly long time trying to get Age of Empires II – Age of Kings (AOK) to work with my friend, and stumbling along many web pages with tips and tricks to get the game working, I thought I would construct a collection of all the methods we tried.
