
If you haven’t played it, i would definitely recommend picking up a copy online, it can’t be very expensive now it’s relatively old, but I cant guarantee it will work on any systems. It’s not entirely surprising that this game has some issues since it was released in 2002. The full shortcut path was: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aomx.exe" xres=800 +noIntroCinematicsīut this will differ depending on where you have installed it, if you have used the default settings it should point to the above location.

This worked for my Age of Mythology with the Titans Expansion pack installed on Windows 7. If you append “xres=800 +noIntroCinematics” without the quotes to the end of the shortcut to run the game, it didn’t load the introduction cinematic, and it worked. I spent a while googling various solutions i found a fix.

Recently i installed Age of Mythology on my Windows 7 laptop and sadly when i started it up it failed to load the first cinematic and then crashed giving an error “Initialization Failed”. UPDATE: Thanks to DeclaredInsane who says that also adding “xres=800” to the shortcut fixes more problems for him also, I have added this to the article 🙂 This blog post talks about how you can fix the Age of Mythology issue “Initialization Failed”.
