Age of Mythology – Widescreen Resolution

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In order to play the epic game Age of Mythology, or its expansion in widescreen, just add xres=1680 yres=1050 to the shortcut.
"C:\Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe" xres=1680 yres=1050

Replace 1680 and 1050 with your own resolution.

UPDATE: From comments below..

Find the icon on your desktop you use to load AOM
Right click and choose properties
In the Target field add: xres=1920 yres=1200

Should be something like this:

age-of-mythology-widescreen-resolution-image1

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UPDATE: This still works on Windows Vista, Windows 7 & Windows 8

114 Comments

114 thoughts on “Age of Mythology – Widescreen Resolution”

  12. Dikzak

    i have 1920×1200 screen, but it runs the game at 800×600 or so when i play it, do you have to put a space between .exe and yres??

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  14. stalks Post author

    Find the icon on your desktop you use to load AOM
    Right click and choose properties
    In the Target field add -xres=1920 -yres=1200

    Should be something like this:

    age-of-mythology-widescreen-resolution-image1

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  19. stalks Post author

    Only the menus are slightly non-square, the game itself just gives a larger map view, it doesn’t stretch.

    To be honest I have played the entire game quite happily and didn’t even think about it.

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  20. rafalbertgn

    thank you so much!!!!!!!!!
    i thought i could never play it in my monitor but it worked perfect.
    i can play it again!!!!!!!!!!
    thanks again.

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  22. Zealix

    please help me with this, when i ad this to the target of the shortcut it simply wont do it because he cant find the file

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  24. Anonymous

    The triggers editor will not work if you do that if you enter the screen resolution that is not on the list >_<

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  25. Tuahaa Soomro

    Works great! AoM won’t let me sent my max resolution as I have Intel 965 chipset but I used this and it works!

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  26. Anonymous

    I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
    YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
    MAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

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  27. Wlado

    Hey, thanks, man, I just got a new monitor. And I wasn’t really wondered by the oldie not having that many resolutions available but was still disappointed. 🙁

    But I knew there was some trick to it. 🙂
    Thanks again!

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  28. Alex

    Bought this old school game for my new laptop with widows 7 os, right click the game shortcut, properties, copy and paste your stated screen res on the end, top notch hack mate! Well chuffed!

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  40. stalks Post author

    Hmm, no patches have been released to change this functionality and I beleive the number of comments above should convince you that it does indeed work.

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  41. meee

    So I get the message “the system cannot find the path specified”. I am running vista, and found that the game installed in program files (x86) and Microsoft games. so I am not sure how to create that path. help please?

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  42. moondoggie

    u have to watch out for the “” put the line behind them so it will look like
    “C:Userszane dreadweepDesktopaomaomx.exe” -xres=1920 -yres=1200
    and not like “C:Userszane dreadweepDesktopaomaomx.exe -xres=1920 -yres=1200”
    than it will say file not found

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  52. JL

    It doesn’t work for me, I’ve a Windows Xp virtual machine on VirtualBox and that set up doesn’t work:

    -xres=1920 -yres=952
    xres=1920 yres=952

    🙁

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  53. admin15

    how about the window mode of the game
    what attributes will i put?
    like “C:Userszane dreadweepDesktopaomaomx.exe” -w

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  58. pfff

    hello friend, i tried 10 times maybe,its still 1650 x 1050 i tried everything on “target” space. pff i dont know why, i erased spaces,and used with backspace 1920 and without it.why 🙁 my screen is 23 ” 1920 x 1080

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  62. paulz!!111

    @blackfire:
    You edited the PATH field rather than the target the first time.

    Thanks for the hint, I always google this after a reinstall.

    Good to see people are still playing age of mythology! Anyway still play it online? I thought they shut the servers down. I use a VPN with my friends.

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  66. mike

    hey man neat trick… workd perfectly thnx bro
    but still cant get to play d damn movie. it just shows black screen and den moves to the main menu.
    mch appreciatd
    thnx

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  68. Roel

    Fuck this doesn’t work for me. Im on a 1366 x 768 resolution Acer Windows 7 Laptop. I’ve downloaded the game from ThePiratebay and it works fine. But this doesn’t work for me. The game however works just fine By the way. I have no patches installed!

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  69. yuri

    In Win 7 i changed Compatibility to Win XP SP 3 and in ‘Shortcut’ menu tab changed option Run: Maximized. After that it worked for me.

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  70. Rajat

    Thanks Dude!
    Really Appreciate this.

    Between, people who still could not get it working, see in advanced options of the shortcut properties, and run it as administrator

    I had a prob myself in the start

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  76. Moses

    Yah, it works. And for everyone wondering, it works with windows 7, 8, vista. Yes, it works with 8. And it looks great. Thx man. :DD

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  81. d3Xt3r

    Works fine for me in Windows 8 – but then again, I don’t use explorer.exe – I use Blackbox – bb4win to be specific. Windows 8’s Metro UI sucks – just replace it with bb4win and your system will not only be faster, you’ll have better compatibility with most games/programs. Plus it’s more keyboard/mouse friendly.

    I use the build that’s called “bb4win_mod-lin-Sim”

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  88. johny

    jakto ze mi to nefacha na w7 mam notes zmenil jsem ten cil ale stejne mam nejvetsi rozliseni jen 1024×768 ve hre a obrazovku mam 1366×768 diky za radu!:)

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  90. Deep Kumar

    At first i had put same resolution U showed while explaining so it didn’t work,
    & then i read “Replace 1680 and 1050 with your own resolution.”
    As i added my Laptop’s screen resolution to the target file,& the Game opened in wide screen.
    Thank U so much Man… 🙂

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  91. oleg

    it just wide! all characters are wide (fat)… and i am not replacing the lines i just add them because i dont have anything to replace
    there are no numbers

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    1. stalks Post author

      Ah, well spotted! I don’t have the game installed to test, but I can see that the post is ambiguous with both with and without the minuses (-). I’ve adjusted the OP.

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  93. Chris

    Thanks it worked !! Have laptop of 1366×768 so had to match this resolution then only it worked. Thank u so much for posting this tip.

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  99. ShadowReturns

    Well the extended version comes out on 8th may, so i dug up AoM to brush up on my skills 🙂 , hopefully it would have more graphic settings and res options.

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  100. Raphael

    Thanks so much! It had been bugging me for months so I decided I needed to look up how to change it and this works a treat!

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  101. Jayden

    Omg when I right click on the icon then go into properties there is no option saying target that you can change. I am on windows 8

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    1. stalks Post author

      Are you right-clicking a desktop shortcut or a Start Menu shortcut? If its a Start Menu shortcut, right lcick it and choose “Open File Location” first to find the real shortcut.

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        1. Jayden

          nah i have idea all the files for the game are in a folder on my destop there is no option for open file location.

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  103. Snikkel

    Im having the same issue as Jayden, no target to be edited, only the file name. Is this because it isn’t a shortcut?

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  108. Anonymous

    Didn’t work for me, it still says initialization failed, I’ve tried everything but nothing works. I’ve played aom on this computer for 3 years but all of a sudden it stopped working.

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  109. gamer and techie

    I used to have the torrent download one, now out of nostalgia, bought a dvd and using your trick… works well!!

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