DE-Replays-Manager VS SenseiDE

You might have a chance by first downgrading AoE to the same version as the one that was used to save the game (there are a few tools to do that — like DE Replays Manager, wololo-downgrader or AoE2 DE Patcher), though I'm not sure it'll stay possible for very long ( /u/cyanide may have more to say about that).

You can use https://github.com/gregstein/DE-Replays-Manager to downgrade to older versions. There is no official way from Microsoft nor Valve to access old builds

https://github.com/gregstein/DE-Replays-Manager/releases/tag/1.3.5.0​

Get SenseiDE and turn off all the fancy graphics, maybe you'll get lucky. I got to run it in a Celeron with 8gb and Intel graphics.

You can try https://github.com/gregstein/SenseiDE All won't help though if your system isn't strong enough. Care to post your CPU, Amount of RAM and GPU here?

Take a look at this tool - https://github.com/gregstein/SenseiDE. I just hope it is still working. You can disable all the unnecessary effects and make the game run much smoother. Just don't expect much (or any) eye-candy.

Also give SenseiDE a try, a community member made it to optimize your game.

Have you tried (SenseiDE)[https://github.com/gregstein/SenseiDE] to improve DE's performance? Give that a try before going back to the older games, since there had been tons of improvements and new content since.

You can try disabling some performance hungry in-game effects using this: https://github.com/gregstein/SenseiDE.

You can disable every graphic setting especially 4k graphics if you use them and if that's not enough SeiseiDE can tweak more stuff