Although Age of Mythology: Retold is built to run on any PC that meets the minimum specifications, not all game settings are suited for every machine. If you are experiencing performance issues while playing, or receiving an error warning that your game settings are too high, please try the following steps:
🛠 Lower in-game Graphics Settings
Please note that some game settings can only be adjusted outside of a match and may require restarting the application to take effect.
- Go to Settings from the Main Menu (Click on the ☰ in the upper right side of the menu)
- Go to the Graphics tab from the left-side menu
- Try lowering the following settings to see if they improve your game performance:
- Resolution Scale
- Texture Quality
- Terrain Quality
- Water Quality
- Shadow Quality
- Effect Quality
- Save changes
- Close the game and restart it after applying these adjustments
🛠 Check monitor resolution settings
Double check your other graphics card and monitor settings to ensure that there isn't something limiting your power.
🛠 Close Any Background Applications
This will help mitigate any disruptions while you’re playing Age of Empires. You can see what applications are currently running by pressing ALT + SHIFT + Esc to open the Task Manager window.
🛠 If you have multiple graphics cards (GPU), make sure the game is set to use best or high performance.
If these steps do not work for you, consider adjusting your settings at the graphics-card level (exact steps for this will vary between graphics card models). This step especially applies if you are playing on a gaming laptop, which may come with multiple GPUs by default.
Steam:
- Open Steam and locate the game.
- Right-click on the game and select Manage > Browse Local Files.
- In the File Explorer that opens, highlight the file pathway and copy it (CTRL + C).
- Go to your Windows Start menu and search for Graphics Settings.
- Windows 10 search for Display, scroll to the bottom of the window and click Graphics settings.
- Open Graphics Settings and click Browse.
- In the explorer window, paste (CTRL + V) the copied file pathway into the file pathway field.
- Select the game’s executable application.
- The application should now show in Graphics Settings page
- Click Options
- Change the graphics preference in the pop-up window to High Performance
- Click Save
Microsoft Store:
- Go to your Windows Start menu and search for Graphics Settings
- Windows 10 search for Display, scroll to the bottom of the window and click Graphics settings.
- Open Graphics Settings
- Change the dropdown from Desktop App to Microsoft Store App
- Find the game
- Windows 10 - A second dropdown will appear. Select the game title from that dropdown.
- Windows 11 - Click Browse and select the game title from the list.
- Click Add and the game should now show in Graphics Settings page
- Click Options
- Change the graphics preference in the pop-up window to High Performance
- Click Save