Hellowzeverybody thx for watching my video I hope u learned something on this video Tutorial about (Age Of Empires) Without Downloading Any ProgramsStep1. Avery likely reason for the behavior is the OS. The driver for your LAN Card/WLAN could be old or not really supported for Windows 7. Search for the newest you can find. Even more likely you are using WLAN with your Laptop and Cable/LAN with your Desktop. If that is the case, try Laptop with cable. Ithink HD has LAN without internet. I might be wrong. DE needing internet is for piracy/DRM reasons. It used to be very common in the "internet cafe" days for people to use a copy on multiple computers. You could try to do mobile hotspot to get internet temp and setup lan. I dont know if its as simple as i put it though. Problem3 – Laggy Gameplay: This is a problem that plagues Age of Empires II. Even if you have an amazingly up to date computer and are on the same LAN, there’s a chance you’ll have this problem. There are many theories as to what the exact cause is, with sync issues, clock speeds and such like being mentioned a fair bit, but the only RunAge of Empires II on one computer. In the main menu, click on "Multiplayer." Select "Connection Type" on the right and select "Local (LAN) TCP/IP Butif you want to give a try, here is what the official AO2:DE website says: "If you are having trouble connecting to LAN games, go to your firewall settings and allow incoming communication on TCP Port 8888, as well as Port 3478 (UDP & TCP) and Port 5222 (UDP & TCP)." Last edited by RFC ; Nov 30, 2019 @ 6:26pm. #7. Im having a problem with playing over LAN in Age of Empires: Definitive Edition. I've downloaded the game from two sources: KaOs and Codex. The game from Codex does not work at all (I open the .exe after install but nothing happens, antivirus off), the version from KaOs works (singleplayer runs with no issues), but LAN is greyed out/non-clickable. 102 LAN connectivity; 10.3 MIDI music; 11 Other information. 11.1 API; 11.2 Middleware; Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game in the Age of Empires internet connection will be lost until the settings are switched back to "Obtain an IP address automatically", but LAN fmwJj.