How to play Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties on Mac

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Game summary

Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties is the second expansion pack for the massively popular Age of Empires III. Rule powerful and exotic Japanese, Chinese and Indian civilications of the East. Battle with Samurai, Chinese Banner Armies and devastating war elephant troops and build powerful wonders. Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties is the second expansion pack for the real-time strategy video game Age of Empires III developed through a collaboration between Ensemble Studios and Big Huge Games, and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The Mac version was ported over, developed and published by Destineer's MacSoft. The game is the second expansion pack following The WarChiefs. The game introduces three new civilizations; China, Japan, and India. It also introduced minor people, campaigns, maps, and game modes.
First released: Oct 2007

Play Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties like you would on any PC.
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