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    Age Of Empires 2, RPI 3

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    • Eater_Of_CheeseE
      Eater_Of_Cheese
      last edited by

      Simple version: how would I go about playing age of empires 2 on my Raspberry pi 3B?

      Longer Version: I have a Raspberry Pi 3B, and I recently purchased the HD edition of AOE2 on steam. I thought, hey, wouldn't it be cool to play this on my raspberry pi? So I did some system requirement checkups, and the pi hits the minimum system requirements for the HD edition. I don't care if it's not the HD version, and I'm assuming it will run a lot better if so. But how exactly should I do this? In retropie? In raspbian? Should I use an emulator?
      Any and all help appreciated, and thanks in advance!

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @Eater_Of_Cheese
        last edited by herb_fargus

        @Eater_Of_Cheese system specs for a natively played game vs the overhead of emulating a whole different computer are very different.

        If you can get Windows 95 through dosbox (if that's the OS it runs on) then it might function but don't know performance wise if it would be playable

        This game engine may actually be your best bet:

        https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        • Eater_Of_CheeseE
          Eater_Of_Cheese @herb_fargus
          last edited by

          @herb_fargus Thanks!
          How might I go about installing OpenAge?

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          • denisuuD
            denisuu
            last edited by

            There's a video of Age of empires running on the Pi:

            It looks to be unplayable, there is a discussion about OpenAge on reddit but they also say it's unlikely.

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            • hooperreH
              hooperre @denisuu
              last edited by

              @denisuu That's on an RPi 2 and I'm assuming that going to an RPi 3 would be an increase, but not a ton of difference. I've been curious about AOE vanilla though.

              Thoughts on resources running it on Raspbian vs Retropie?

              4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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