Rise Of Nations Screen Flickering Problem On Windows 10

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:

  1. Open the following file:
    C:\­Users\­<UserName>\­AppData\­Roaming\­Microsoft Games\­Rise of Nations\­rise2.ini
  2. Change the line VSync=1 to VSync=0. This should eliminate the screen flickering. If you are still encountering flickering, go to step 3.
  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.

Download rise2.zip

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Usman Khurshid
Usman Khurshid is a seasoned IT Pro with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He has experience in everything from IT support, helpdesk, sysadmin, network admin, and cloud computing. He is also certified in Microsoft Technologies (MCTS and MCSA) and also Cisco Certified Professional in Routing and Switching.

51 comments

  • danj

    worked just perfect for me. Thanks

  • OJUS

    thank you… this worked.. gamescreen is stable now.

  • Lasindu Nuwanga
    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
    marc axel

    LE JEU CLIGNOTE AIDE MOI

  • PAUL CASSEL
    PAUL CASSEL

    Thanks, just went to 10 and was sad to lose my fave game.

  • Emmanuel
    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
    diodiodio

    thanks man! it solved my problem as well! thumbs up!!

  • Gaurav Oberoi
    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
    TheBreezus

    This worked perfectly! Thanks!

  • Akhilesh
    Akhilesh

    Hy, I cant find a ini file in the directory. there is only a dat file.

  • Chaitanya Sailor
    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
    prakash

    my game was not working

  • arpit gupta
    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
    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
    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
    Alessandro

    Thank You – you helped me saving one of my favorites!

  • Bobalou622
    Bobalou622

    Thanks that fixed it!!!

  • Ahmed

    Worked like a charm , u saved a gaming night with my friends from being ruined thx !

  • purpleturtle99
    purpleturtle99

    Thanx it works for me 2

  • sohel-00971527806161 uae
    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
    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
        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
          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
    Inferno

    Thanks pal..it worked. You rock..

  • Esau Aceveco
    Esau Aceveco

    Great. It worked!!!

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