Hi, I bought a new laptop 3 weeks ago, it is a toshiba satellite Intel Centrino 1.86GHz and 512MB ram and a GeForce 6600 go, I like age of empires 2 a lot and I installed it but when I play after a few minutes, the game freezes, I hit Alt+tab and run system monitor, it shows that i was using 100% of the cpu and that the game was not responding... suddently that changes and I go back to the game play 1 minute or so and it happens again... I hit alt+ tab and see the same, I go back and the game restarts... it is so annoying that the game freezes and I can't even play for 10 minutes... I ran spyware check with adware, spybot, I saw microsoft's site for troubleshooting, started the game with a clean boot and nothing... Please Help!! P.S: I have other games like warcraft 3, battle for middle earth and command conquer generals and they run smoothly... what the hell is happening...

I'll investigate further, but for now, it using 100% of your CPU is normal. Please help survivors of Hurricane Katrina. www.redcross.org

You have a Pentium-M. Centrino is the name of the hardware package, not the CPU. Have you run MSCONFIG from the Start menu & stopped unnecessary programs from loading at startup & hogging resources? Another 512MB of RAM wouldn't hurt either ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

Sorry, it is pentium M, actually, I don't know what is going on... I installed directx 9.0c, my nvidia drivers are 78.01, and I did a clean boot of my laptop with MSCONFIG as the microsoft site tells you... I reinstalled the game in the clean boot and the same thing happens.... When I hit alt+tab the task manager shows that age 2 isn't responding... and when I switch back to it, the game continues but after a few seconds this happens again... I can go like that for ever.. this happens in multiplayer games as well on single player deathmatch. I also tried the commands NoTerrain sounds and all of them but still get the same pattern.. please help

im running a pentium 3 @1ghz and i rarely get 100%cpu usage from AOE2, it touches 100% in a multiplayer game with 8 civilizations but other than that it seems fine. i also dont understand whats wrong.