Hi, everytime I host a game with 1.6 and I start it, it opens the game but when I get to the game settings it crashes and gives me an error:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime error!

Program: ...6)Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Age2_X1\age2_x1.Exe


abnormal program termination

Here´s the game diagnostic:

Non-DirectPlay game path is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II'
Verifying 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\language_x1.dll' exists...
Success!
Verifying 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\age2_x1\age2_x1.exe' exists...
Success!
Voobly path is 'c:\program files (x86)\voobly'
Game version is '1.0C'
Verifying 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\language_x1_p1.dll' exists...
Success!
Checking DirectPlay libraries...
Looking for dpwsockx.dll...
Looking for dplayx.dll...
'c:\windows\system32\dplayx.dll' size: 228352 bytes
DirectPlay Init Success!
Scanning installed DirectPlay games...
Age of Empires II
Age of Empires II - The Conquerors Expansion [found]
Game was found in DirectPlay registry!
DirectPlay play thinks the game is installed at 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II'
DirectPlay command line is 'Lobby'
DirectPlay play thinks the game exe is at 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Age2_X1\age2_x1.exe'
Verifying file exists... Success!
DirectPlay play thinks the language dll is at 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\language_x1.dll'
Verifying file exists... Success!
Scanning 'c:\program files (x86)\voobly\gamedata\AOC\age2_x1.exe'
Success!

Everything looks fine. DirectPlay is configured and the game was found on your harddrive. If you still have problems try rejoining the lobby or restarting your computer.

Btw, I already repaired/ uninstalled-installed back Visual C++, as well as the 1.6 patch and mod

This problem was fixed in our last release of 1.6

Hola, hice lo mismo que tu y se soluciono, pero me di cuenta que el pack de IA produce el error, tuve que quitar el pack de IA (barbarian, promi, etc) y además de que la IA del parche quedo dañada, no hace nada solo explora con los aldeanos creo que es error de C++ que ya dejo de dar soporte a versiones anteriores al 2005.

Uninstall and Re-install Visual C++ Redistributable.