Post your error log below (found in %temp%/AoE2DE_logs ) with the exact error code.

Last Updated: October 2025 Applies to: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Steam), Age of Empires II HD

If you are a fan of the legendary real-time strategy game Age of Empires 2 , few things are more frustrating than launching the game on Steam only to be met with a cryptic error message: or “The code execution cannot proceed because apirajas.dll was not found.”