

I know its recorded somewhere in the registry, just don't know where, and don't like finger-poken' in the. I don't have my original packaging, and wondered if anybody knows a way to find the ProdKey on my system.

I'd rather have my game not freeze than to know how many hours I've played it. Rebuilt computer to get rid of some annoying internal pop-up, and now, when trying to reinstall games, AoE III is asking for ProdKey. The only thing you'll be missing is the number of hours playing the game. The names of the executables are age3.exe, age3x.exe (War Chiefs), and age3y.exe (Asian Dynasties). In case anyone has either of these issues, it's better to run the game & expansions through shortcuts rather than through Origin. I spoke with a rep, who spoke to a specialist, who had no clue how to provide target parameters to expansion packs since Origin moved them from the main library to a separate area. Was also able to provide the target parameters in the shortcut.

I thought it was my computer at first, then decided to run the expansions by a short-cut, bypassing Origin altogether. I wanted to give the expansion packs a target parameter to stop the cinematics since I have to reload save files all the time, but the only option for an EP is to play it, not give them Game Properties. Anyway, so I have to save all the time before I do the switch. exe file with run as admin And enter key I think the problem is aoe3 cant edit the regedit to input the key, which is why u must enter it every time. I do this because I'm watching videos of missions. Hey mate i had same issue as you, I found the way to make it work. Well, AOE3 freezes constantly if I switch between the game and my desktop or IE3.
