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

worked perfectly!!! Thanks!!!

I was able to get it to work for Windows 10! Follow LouisRiecken's advice (or wherever he got it from):

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!\[\](http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png)(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

Then run the compatibility mode for Windows Vista (Service Pack 2). It auto defaults to Windows XP (Service Pack 3) when you the program choose the compatibility mode. I've done this trick on two different computers and it works.

Try these settings for the options.ini in the roaming file for rise of the witchking

AllHealthBars = yes

AmbientVolume = 50.000000

AudioLOD = High

Brightness = 50

FlashTutorial = 0

GameSpyIPAddress = 192.168.2.101

HasSeenLogoMovies = yes

IdealStaticGameLOD = VeryLow

MovieVolume = 70.000000

MusicVolume = 70.000000

Resolution = 800 600

SFXVolume = 70.000000

ScrollFactor = 50

SendDelay = no

StaticGameLOD = UltraHigh

SuppressCahPromo = true

TimesInGame = 54

UseEAX3 = no

VoiceVolume = 70.000000

These are settings from my old laptop that had no problem running BFME2ROTWK

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.

Has taken from gamereplays.org

I know it's been a while since this was posted, but I was just trying to fix my BFME and couldn't get anything to work, even the options.ini until I found something. When you save the options.ini that you create, it actually saves as a text file, not an ini file, but it won't show you the file extension normally. 

Type in "folder options" into your cortana search bar and click "File Explorer Options". In the "view" tab, deselect "hide extensions for known file types". Now check your options.ini file again. It should say "options.ini.txt". Rename the file and delete the .txt. It will ask you if you are sure, say yes. Then launch the game. 

For reference, I watched this video. I used the lines from above, however, only adding the .000000 at the end of the volume values and such. 

This worked for me, hope it works for you too.