
When you close AoE2 and Capture Age normally, it often happens that the Capture Age process remains active, effectively blocking AoE2 from launching again. To resolve this issue, you must open Task Manager and terminate the leftover Capture Age process before restarting AoE2.

@tinion if you happen to run into a way to reliably reproduce this, please let us know. We have had similar reports before but it’s always been difficult, if not impossible, for us to reproduce the behavior 🙏