Talk:Age of Empires II: The Conquerors/@comment-81.204.84.104-20150912150101/@comment-5157002-20150912155033

My best suggestion would be to buy the Steam version. I know you probably doesn't want to spend money on another version of the game, but Steam usually tries to get their games to run on all Windows versions.

But first, try right-clicking and choose "Properties" and "Compability", then run in a Windows 7 compability mode. I don't know if it'll work, but it's worth a shot.