Microsoft KB Archive/250684

= AoE II & Pandora Error Message:  Has Executed an Invalid Instruction in .icd =

Article ID: 250684

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
 * Microsoft Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion
 * Microsoft Age of Empires II Gold Edition
 * Microsoft Pandora's Box

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This article was previously published under Q250684



SYMPTOMS
When you try to start one of the programs listed in the "Applies to" section of this article, you may receive one of the following error messages:

Empires2 has executed an invalid instruction in Empires2.icd.

Empires2 has executed an invalid instruction in Empires2.exe.

Pandora has executed an invalid instruction in Pandora.icd.

Pandora has executed an invalid instruction in Pandora.exe.



CAUSE
This behavior can occur if one of the following Cyrix microprocessors is installed in your computer:
 * Cyrix 486DX
 * Cyrix 6x86
 * Cyrix MediaGX



MORE INFORMATION
The Cyrix processors mentioned in this article are not compatible with the programs listed at the beginning of this article.

The third-party products that are discussed in this article are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.

Additional query words: 1.00 2.00 msgame aoe2 aok pandoras panbox ipf crash performance

Keywords: kbconfig kb3rdparty kberrmsg kbprb KB250684

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