Windows 10 with Lord of the Rings - Battle for Middle Earth II

The game had been working with Windows 8.1 however will not load under Windows 10

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Compatibility mode worked in 8.1 but in windows 10 the game freezes on the loading screen .

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I also have tried the compatibility options... none of them work. I'm going to try this reply I found below out and see if it does the trick. The instructions below I know work for Vista, Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. Hopefully it will for windows 10.

The game was not allowed to create an options.ini in the C:\Users\[your login name]\AppData\Roaming\My Battle for Middle-earth(tm) Files folder. So if you don't see an options.ini you'll have to create one yourself... it should contain the following lines:


AllHealthBars = yes
AlternateMouseSetup = no
AmbientVolume = 50
AudioLOD = High
Brightness = 50
FixedStaticGameLOD = UltraHigh
FlashTutorial = 0
HasSeenLogoMovies = yes
HeatEffects = yes
IdealStaticGameLOD = Low
IsThreadedLoad = yes
MovieVolume = 70
MusicVolume = 70
Resolution = 1680 1050
SFXVolume = 70
ScrollFactor = 50
StaticGameLOD = UltraHigh
TimesInGame = 54
UnitDecals = yes
UseEAX3 = no
VoiceVolume = 70

you will have to adjust the resolution to that of your own screen!

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The options.ini file isn't the issue unfortunately.  I've tried compatibility mode, reinstalling, and the ini fix.  None have worked for me so far.  I hope someone's able to figure it out.  Battle for Middle Earth 2 and the expansion are both great games.

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I have tried all compatibility modes, changed the option.ini file, changed resolution, allowed admin. permission, and changed the destination folder but none have worked. What's up with windows 10 ruining this game?

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this game do not work on windows 10, no way to make it work :(

and there is not fix available for it

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There are several things that you could try:

1. Run the BFME2 patch switcher (1.06/1.07/1.08), try switching patches and see if you can get the game to run.
2. Make sure your graphics card driver is up to date. I've diagnosed several issues where people couldn't get their BFME game to run because of their GPU drivers. Intel onboard graphics tend to be pretty incompatible with such old games, so if your laptop uses a dual GPU hybrid setup, either completely disable the intel GPU and use your AMD or NVIDIA card, or fully update your AMD/NVIDIA driver and use the panel settings to make sure that the game uses your secondary AMD/NVIDIA GPU and not the intel one. Some laptops allow you to fully disable the Intel onboard GPU in BIOS. If you're only on Intel onboard graphics, then update its driver and see if it works. If not, keep downgrading the driver version until you find one which works (google on how to properly uninstall and install GPU drivers). If that still doesn't work, then I'm afraid you need a new GPU or PC as one member who had a similar case. 
3. This won't work, but play with compatibility and administrator settings of the game executable and see what happens.

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I created an account just to help you guys. Like everybody here I tried everything mentioned in this discussion. And right as I was going to give up I right clicked on the shortcut to start the game and instead of hitting "run as administrator" I clicked "run with graphics processor" and it worked!!!! I have an Nvidia Geforce GTX 765M. I'm not sure if this will work for everyone but it worked for me. Good luck.

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sadly my graphics card is run by intel. There is no option for me there....sadness

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I am having the same problem , I've tried everything and could not help me solve the problem !! "...has stopped working".

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