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The Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Update 2.0a features many updates and fixes, including the AI update, town center changes, improved performance of single player campaign games, and improved overall stability.

The Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Update 2.0a features many updates and fixes, including:

• The AI Update.


• Town Center changes.


• Improved performance of single player campaign games.


• Improved overall stability.


• You can no longer use a fishing ship to build buildings other than a fish trap.


• The cooperative farming bug has been fixed.


• A number of computer player and scenario editor bugs have also been fixed.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to October 2014.

• Multimedia PC with Pentium 166MHz or higher processor


• Microsoft® Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 5 operating system


• 32 MB of RAM


• DirectX 6.1 or later


• 90 MB of hard disk space; additional 100 MB of hard disk space for swap file


• Super VGA monitor supporting 1024x768 resolution


• Local bus video card that supports 1024x768, 256-color resolution and 2 MB of VRAM


• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device


• 28.8Kbps modem (or higher recommended) for Internet* or head-to-head play


• Audio board with speakers or headphones


• To access the MSN Gaming Zone you need Internet Explorer 3.02 or later software or Netscape Communicator 4.0 or later

1. Click the Download link to start the download, or choose a different language from the drop-down list and click Go.
2. Do one of the following:

• To start the installation immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location.
• To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk.