
Simply allow splash.exe as well the child account will no longer be prompted for Age of Empires III launch executables or splash.exe if the administrator made unblock exceptions.You've probably already guessed my question from the title (in fact you probably groaned at the thought of another person asking this! :-P) but anyways basically a friend of mine (Mac user) recently talked me into seriously considering getting AoE3 because we used to play AoE2 together (just networked on some PC computers at my place).Īnyway I've played the demos and while it's interesting I'm not willing to chuck £30 at the complete collection if it turns out that my Mac friend can't play online with PC users as I did read (admittedly on some seriously old threads) that Mac-PC doesn't work online.Ī different friend said he'd found a patch here that he read allows Mac to PC multiplayer.

I allowed age3.exe or age3xp.exe as an exception to Parental Controls, but Vista continues to raise a block prompt again for splash.exe. Launch the newly unblocked Age III executable again. I have the March AppCompat update installed, but when I elevate permissions from the UI dialog to unblock the launch, the dialog will dismiss itself without any further feedback.


This alert appears when installing or launching Age III (not Warchiefs) on any version of Windows Vista. Known Issue: "This program has known compatibility issues" alert on Windows Vista
