After excitedly playing my first game of AOE3 recently I saved it to come back too later which is quite a common thing to do. When I came back to replay the game an hour or so later though I was faced with the message ‘Game Paused’ and no obvious way of getting the game to continue.
I knew that the solution must be simple but there was nothing that indicated what to do so I did a bit of digging.
To get Age of Empires 3 (III) to play after opening a saved game which is paused by default you need to press the ‘Pause/Break’ button on your keyboard.
According to Microsoft pressing F7 should do it too.
It might also be worth checking you have the latest updates (Tools->Update from with in the initial game menu).
Once you have updated and restarted AOE3 the game should show a prompt giving you the option to resume a saved game when you open it.
You can read the help from Microsoft on this topic at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910814
thanks a ton man!! i was jus confused bout wat to do n i decided to remove AOE 3 completely coz it was irritating me. thanks a million!!
Glad you found the answer. It had me frustrated for ages too before I worked out how to do it.
thanks a lot man…..this thing irritated me for days n i decided to delete d game only for u to solve d problem at d ryt tym… u rock
Thank you, they really should have made the “P” key “pause” and “unpause”
I’ve got a dell laptop and there’s no pause/break button and F7 doesn’t work. I tried getting the latest updates and that failed too. GRRR!!! Any ideas?
me too not working
With my Dell laptop I press Fn + Insert
just Pause
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Break
What About Toshiba Computers??????? There is now Break or Pause on my Keyboard, also when i press “P” Button, it won’t work!!!!!!!!! HELP????????????
Simple ….
press : ‘Pause break’
finish 😛
try fn with F6 it worked fr me
try fn with shift..it work well for hp laptops
Thanks a lot. Simple step yet hard to discover. !!!
with my laptop lenovo b475, i used “Fn” + “pause”
i dont have pause break because i am using laptop how i unpause the game
Skirmish not resuming on my Dell laptop…. what should I do…. HELP!!!!!!
100% WORKING ANSWER – for laptops
Open onscreen Keyboard
Goto Windowed Mode and select Unpause
🙂 🙂 🙂