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CNET Download provides free downloads for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android devices across all categories of software and apps, including security, utilities, games, video and browsers. Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots is the official expansion pack to the real-time strategy computer game Rise of Nations. The game is the second in a series of Rise of Nations games by Big Huge Games. Thrones and Patriots had its premiere release for Microsoft Windows on April 27, 2004 in North America. It was ported to and released for Mac OS X in November 2004. Thrones and Patriots.
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots Demo
This is a demo for Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots, a real-time strategy game containing four nations and a sample of the Alexander the Great campaign.
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
April 2004
© 2004 Big Huge Games, Inc. Portions © 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Welcome to the Rise of Nations®: Thrones and Patriots expansion pack. This file contains information to help you install, start playing, and troubleshoot Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots. It also includes late-breaking information not included in the in-game Help.
In the trial version, you can choose between four nations: the Persians from the expansion pack, and three others from the original game. Play through the tutorial and then get a taste of the Alexander the Great campaign, one of four historical campaigns in the retail version. You'll also be able to try your hand on the battlefield on one of three different random map types. This stand-alone trial version does not require the original retail version of Rise of Nations.
A. Installing Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
System Requirements
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots requires a personal computer running either Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition. It also is required that your computer have a processor speed of 500 megahertz (MHz) or higher, at least 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM, and a 16 MB video card. For the best gameplay experience, a 1 GHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, and a 32 MB video card is recommended.
To install Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
1. Ensure that the original Rise of Nations game is installed on your computer.
2. Insert the Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots CD into your CD-ROM drive.
3. If AutoPlay is enabled, the Setup screen will appear after a brief pause. When the Setup screen appears, click Install and then follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
–or–
If AutoPlay is not enabled, double-click the My Computer icon on your desktop, double-click the icon for your CD-ROM drive, and then double-click the Setup.exe icon. When the Setup screen appears, click Install, and then follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
B. Starting Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
You can play Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots after you have installed it on your computer. You must have the Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots CD in your CD-ROM drive to play.
To start Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
1. With the Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots CD in your CD-ROM drive, click the Start button.
2. Point to Programs (or All Programs).
3. Point to Microsoft Games.
4. Click Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots.
Note: You can skip the opening animations by clicking on-screen or pressing SPACEBAR.
C. Playing Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
Gameplay Modes
There are several tutorials to help you learn how to play the game. To access these tutorials, launch the game and select Learn to Play on the Main Menu.
Custom Scenarios
To load custom scenarios created with the Scenario Editor, you must save your files in the mods folder of the original game (for example, Microsoft GamesRise of NationsMods). Custom scenarios created in Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots will not work in the original Rise of Nations game.
2014-06-13: Rise of Nations on Steam! Developed by SkyBox Labs and published by Microsoft, Rise of Nations: Extended Edition boasts improved graphics, runs on Windows 7/8.1, and includes the Thrones & Patriots expansion. Multiplayer and other online features are now based on Steam. Generally, this is the preferred way to play Rise of Nations on modern systems.
The rest of this page refers to older disk-based versions of the game. If you already own one and have a low-powered system, e.g. an ultrabook with integrated GPU, you might wish stay away from the Steam version as its performance requirements are significantly higher than the original’s. My Sony Vaio Duo 13 runs the original effortlessly but responds to the new version with a howling fan and a rapidly depleting battery, regardless of the graphics options I pick.
Running the Disk Version
One game I put on every new Windows installation is Brian Reynolds’ Rise of Nations, originally released in 2003 and followed by the excellent expansion Thrones & Patriots in 2004.
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Sadly, this real-time strategy classic had the misfortune of being a Windows game published by Microsoft. The company was already shifting its gaming focus from Windows to Xbox, and today you’re lucky to even find a legal copy. (Ten years later it’s finally come to Steam, see above.) The cheap DVD re-release I eventually managed to find dates from 2007.
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The result is that Rise of Nations won’t run on modern systems without some help. On my 64-bit version of Windows 8 Pro, the game was unplayable due to a badly flickering screen and an invisible mouse cursor. Happily, I was able to fix these issues with a few simple tweaks. Once you’ve installed the game and its expansion as usual, do the following:
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- Open the file
'C:Users<UserName>AppDataRoamingMicrosoft GamesRise of Nationsrise2.ini'
in Notepad or another text editor. Replace<UserName>
with your Windows user name. - Change the line
VSync=1
toVSync=0
. This eliminates the screen flickering. - Change the line
ForceGDICursor=0
toForceGDICursor=1
. This eliminates the invisible or immobile mouse cursor produced by other cursor settings. - Optional: Change the line
ForceAGPVBs=0
toForceAGPVBs=1
. I didn’t test this myself but two commenters said it eliminated screen flickering and visual corruption with integrated graphics. You may also need to setForceStaticCursor=1
. (Thanks Daniel & James Wyper!) - Since you’re probably using a high-resolution monitor, change
AllowAllResolutions=0
toAllowAllResolutions=1
and changeWindowed Width
andWindowed Height
to your monitor’s resolution. These two settings apply to full-screen mode despite the “Windowed” moniker. - That’s it for the file
rise2.ini
, so you can save and close it now. - The desktop shortcut created by my version’s installer was set to Windows XP (SP3) compatibility mode, but I found that unnecessary. Disable that option if it’s enabled, and save yourself the UAC prompt on every start-up.
And so I got Rise of Nations and Thrones & Patriots back up and running on Windows 8. I hope these settings will work for you as well. Good luck!
Patch the Game (2015-05-06) — James Wyper commented that you need patch version 1.03 for the above tips to work. I was unaware of this, as my DVD edition was likely pre-patched to that version. If you cannot find
rise2.ini
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Repairing MS XML (2013-03-13) — Uninstalling Age of Empires 3 Complete seems to destroy the MS XML library required by Rise of Nations. Fortunately, it’s easy to get back. With my multilingual DVD edition of Rise of Nations Gold, all I had to do was run
RONUKREDISTMSXMLENU.MSI
and select “Repair.” Change paths and/or language codes as needed. This should help whenever the game complains on startup that something’s wrong with MS XML.Download rise[2].ini (2013-12-02) — Some commenters said they found the directory for
rise2.ini
but it doesn’t contain the file itself, for whatever reason. First, check that your game is patched to version 1.03 as noted above. As a workaround if you still cannot find the files I have put both rise.ini
and rise2.ini
from my installation up for download, as RiseIni.zip.Thrones And Patriots Trial
I added
rise.ini
just in case it’s also involved in Rise of Nations not working. I lowered the screen resolution in rise2.ini
to a safe 1024×768, otherwise both files are unchanged. They don’t seem to contain any user data and only relative file paths, so hopefully they’ll work on other systems.Rise Of Nations Thrones And Patriots Mac Download Full
Relocation Notice (2014-02-16) — This post originally appeared on the companion weblog. Due to its consistently high traffic, I changed it into a static website page. All comments were moved here as well, although Disqus cannot import avatars or author links – see the original comment thread for those.