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was looking for a way to change the zoom level, I changed in all 3 files (game, gamex and gamey.exe) the MaxZoom from 60 to 160 ... then 300 ... and finally to 1'000 ... but nothing changes in my opinion....?
So if you want to change your zoom level, you need to change the "normalZoom" variable from the default 50 to something higher. My old numbers seem totally off in this regard, as at 160, it zooms out so far that nothing remains visible due to some white shader effect.
That white shader fog only appears when the Shader Quality (in the graphics options) is set to "Very High". Setting it to just "High" removes the fog, letting you zoom out to incredible distances.
On a sidenote, if you're playing the Asian Dynasties expansion, you only need to edit the gamey.cfg. The game.cfg and gamex.cfg are for the base game and the Warchiefs expansion.
(Alternatively, you can also put these tweaks into a "user.cfg" file in your C:\Users\YourWindowsUsername\Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\Startup\ folder.)
In any case, thanks a lot for pointing out this problem, I'll update the OP with the correct instructions.
TLDR:
To change the zoom level, edit the gamey.cfg (if playing the Asian expansion) and change the "normalZoom=50" to something higher.
If you want to set it to anything higher than 65, you need to set the Shader Quality (in the graphics options) to "High" or lower, otherwise a white fog will cover everything at higher zoom levels when Shader Quality is set to "Very High".
Since i found no fix for this, it was a decider to me.
1.) Keep playing on widescren, since the gameplay itself is ok, only the menu/ui are stretched and deal with it.
2.) Set a 4:3 resolution (for example on a 1920x1080 screen set it to 1440x1080, thats a 4:3), and have a good looking ui but deal with the blackbars.
I picked option 2, since i was playing CS:GO back in the day with 4:3 blackbars, i had less problem adopting. I rather playing 4:3 but the game looks as it should, than stretched ugly ui.
Its a personal preference ofc, others pefer playing this widescreen despite the ui problem. Your choice, just share my thoughts here as a tip or tweak if u have same issue like me.
To topic opener (even is you not read this 10 years later): Huge thanks for solving laggy home town problem!
But then all I see from there is bin, directx, msxml, installscript.vdf and steam_appid.txt
I am playing AOE III complete collection (not "definition edition")
Where can I find the startup folder?
EDIT: The startup folder is in "bin," just have to scroll down a while.