Rise of Nations is one of the best Microsoft strategy game from the early 2000. It simulates the human history where players have to build economy and military and expand their territories to be the leader of the world. Today its very difficult to buy a legal copy of Rise of Nations. But fortunately, Steam has published Rise of Nations from where you can download and play the game. It’s a multi-player game which can be played on a local network as well as on the Internet.
I still play Rise of Nations. One problem that I encountered when I upgraded to Windows 10 was that the screen would start flickering after starting the game and introduction videos. After searching the Internet and doing different experiments, I finally fixed the problem.
I am documenting the solution here so that the users who are still in love with Rise of Nations can play it on Windows 10 without any problem.
Solution:
- Open the following file:
C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations\rise2.ini - Change the line VSync=1 to VSync=0. This should eliminate the screen flickering. If you are still encountering flickering, go to step 3.
- Change the line ForceAGPVBs=0 to ForceAGPVBs=1
That’s it. Hopefully this will get rid of the flickering problem in Rise of Nations game. If ever you mess up with your rise2.ini file, here’s the default file with the above changes.
51 comments
danj
worked just perfect for me. Thanks
OJUS
thank you… this worked.. gamescreen is stable now.
Lasindu Nuwanga
Hey buddy thank you soooo much, as I was suffering with this problem. I even changed OS back to win 7, 8 to play this game. But sometimes I wanted win 10 for some other works. So unfortunately I had to install win 10 again, and I was missing RONTAP. But finally you gave me a solution and thnak you again…
Muthu
I doesn’t have a file in that name what should I do. i copied ur file it didn’t work
marc axel
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PAUL CASSEL
Thanks, just went to 10 and was sad to lose my fave game.
Emmanuel
Thanks very much for the info.
Yogi
Thanks for sharing. I have the same problem now it’s working fine..
Shazzy
Pasted the .ini file with the rise.exe where the nation, patriots and thrones exe are also found but the flickering still lingers… Is there any other place I could place it?
Muthu
Did you get solution for the problem if s plz share with me i have same problem
diodiodio
thanks man! it solved my problem as well! thumbs up!!
Gaurav Oberoi
Thank you so much !! It worked like a charm. Had been trying to get rid of this darn problem for so long.
Thabo
Thanks it really worked. I’m really glad.
Gbg
Great! It worked
mira
its working properly..
parth
Thank you very vvvvvvvv much buddy…
BnAn
Great work!Thanks
ddddd
thanks a lot
Deno
Thanks a lot buddy. I Love You :)
TheBreezus
This worked perfectly! Thanks!
Akhilesh
Hy, I cant find a ini file in the directory. there is only a dat file.
Chaitanya Sailor
Hell yes..it’s working…:)
Rory
My game isn’t working and there is no file with that was mentioned what do i do
prakash
my game was not working
Usman Khurshid
Is it working now?
arpit gupta
I searched the whole pc but there is no such file rise2.ini . what to do . i am trying to install rise of nations on windows 10
vikash
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations—search in this folder
muaz
worked, thnks mate
Culet
Thanks a lot!
step3 made it work.
Pankaj Chauhan
Thanks Lot
its working
Rakesh
/thanks, i thought i have to uninstall it but it worked
Stan
Thank you for the fix. I am a RON fan and still play the game. After I got a new computer with Windows 10 and installed RON on it, I solved the flickering problem using the technique you mentioned.
nishant
its not working i did what u told to do but its still flickering problem still there so what should i do plzzz tell me im big fan of this game
Miguel
Thanks brother you saved my night!
ahmad
thank you! worked.
Alessandro
Thank You – you helped me saving one of my favorites!
Bobalou622
Thanks that fixed it!!!
Ahmed
Worked like a charm , u saved a gaming night with my friends from being ruined thx !
purpleturtle99
Thanx it works for me 2
sohel-00971527806161 uae
bosss you are awesome ….thank you sooooooooo……much
my problem is solved on windows 10…I liked your solution its great
Sujendra
thanks! Step 2 solved the problem
Steve
I made the changes and my screen still flickers. I even took replaced my file with the one you posted with no change. Any other suggestions?
Daniel
Make sure you place it in the right folder! That was my mistake..Appdata was hidden…once i found it and replaced the .ini file it worked fine!
smawutor@gmail.com
downloaded the new rise.inf with the default settings but that didnt stop the flikering. What next do i do? i didnt find the Appdata in the location. What is the “right folder” that you mentioned?
Shreeranga
Just change the values to 0 again (VSync=0,ForceStaticCursor=0) and place this rise2.inf file in folder where rise.exe is present. This worked for me.
Mike
Paste the rise.inf in the folder where the .exe is present
Worked for me
Daniel
Me too!
Didn’t even have the rise2.ini file…
Adding yours fails to stop the flickering?
K3nT
Thank you dude! It solved my problem (step 2) and I´m glad to play this game again :) You have great tips here!
ali
thanks buddy, it solve my problem.
Inferno
Thanks pal..it worked. You rock..
Esau Aceveco
Great. It worked!!!