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With the few modificationts bellow u can expect to go well beyond the minimum ranked multiplayer benchmark requirement...
Makes units and buildings visible
Removed the movies folder in "steamapps/common/AoE2DE/resources/_common/" and replaced ucrtbase.dll in "steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32/" To further boost performance also use these mods: https://www.ageofempires.com/mods/details/1539/ https://www.ageofempires.com/mods/details/790/
Provided u cut down on some eye candy u can expect butter smooth gaming with a decent rig
Extract the ucrtbase.dll from vc_redist.x64.exe(just browse to the game file's location from steam) then copy it at this location ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32 to have a functional multiplayer
To enable multiplayer you need to owerwrite the ucrtbase.dll in "steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32/" with a 64bit one either downloaded from somewhere or extracted from a vcrun2017 installer To improve the game performance you may use some aditional mods that will reduce the system GPU&RAM requirements, see this guide for details: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1930722784
IF you desynch during multiplayer matches then you need to owerwrite the ucrtbase.dll in "steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32/" with a 64bit one either downloaded from somewhere or extracted from a vcrun installer
Works by default out of the box on the beta branch of the game have not tested it for the stable version)
Alt Tabing in and out may make the game loose mouse focus
Some may experience gpu overheating issues, if so just limit your maximum FPS to smth more reasonable...
Expect a blank black screen on the intro video but all runs ok after you skip that the first time you run the game
Tryed tutorial&campaign all seems to work ok with excelent performance
First time i launched it it threw an error: ''Fatal error in gc: GetThreadContext failed'' hasn't happend again upon several other launch attemps
Using Alt+Tab may occasionally result in a black screen upon tabing back to the game
Depending on server input occasional minor input lag may occur
Some graphic settings may need to be toned down to have a perfect experience unless you have a top notch gaming rig...
After an upgrade at some point to proton experimental the game begun to crash when rendering some abilities(for ex: trappers trowing a net) and had to revert to the default 7.0x branch so it doesn't crash anymore
