I own a valid copy of The Battle for Middle Earth II, as well as the Rise of the Witch-King expansion pack. My parents computer used to be Windows 7, and was able to play the game just fine. They also just recently upgraded their Windows 7 computer toWindows 10, and the game still works on their computer even as Windows 10. (The game was already installed from Windows 7 when they upgraded to 10).My question is I have my own laptop which I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10. I attempted to install and run the games when it was Windows 8, but to no avail. Since seeing the game work on my parents Windows 10 computer, I attempted to reinstall and playthe games on my now Windows 10 laptop, but the games will not load correctly. They installed successfully, but keep coming up with 'Cannot locate CD-ROM' or 'Program has stopped working' error messages.My computer is a Dell Inspiron 15 with i5 64 bit operating system.
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My laptop does not have a built-in disk drive, so I purchased an external disk drive which has worked just fine for all other purposes. The external disk drive is an LG Slim Portable DVD Writer.Is it possible for me to successfully run the game(s) on my Windows 10 laptop that work without issue on my parents Windows 10 computer? And if so, what are the steps necessary?Any help would be seriously appreciated. I love these games, and really hope I can find a way to make them work out on my laptop. Hi,We appreciate you for being a part of Windows 10.Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you.Before proceeding, we need more information to help you better.Have you tried to install the game in compatibility mode?.Did you updates the graphics card?Kindly follow the below methods and check if the issue persist.Method 1:I suggest you to update the graphics card drivers.
Refer to the below article to update the drivers in Windows 10.Method 2:Step 1: Uninstall the game.Refer to the below steps to uninstall the game.Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard, and selectPrograms and features.Right Click on Program/game (which you want to uninstall) and selectuninstall.Click on yes if prompted.Reboot the system and check if you face the issue.Step 2: Install the game in compatibility mode.Compatibility mode runs the program using settings from a previous version of Windows. Try this setting if you know the program is designed for (or worked in) a specific previous version of Windows.
To change compatibility settingsmanually for a program, right-click the program icon, click Properties, and then click theCompatibility tab. Follow the below steps to install the game in compatibility mode. Right-click on the game setup file (game which you need to install again) and click onProperties. Click on the compatibility tab and check the boxRun this program in compatibility mode for and select previous Operating System from the drop down.
Click on Apply and click ‘ OK’ and run the file to install it.Reference: I suggest you to refer to the below article and check if it helps. Applies to other games as well.Troubleshoot games.I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows.
We are glad to assist you.Thank you. Thank you for the feedback. I attempted to run the game in compatibility mode with Windows 7 and other compatibility options, but none of them worked. I also went through and updated my drivers as described, but still no success.This morning I also tried copying over the full list of 'AppData' for this game from my parents computer, and copy-pasting the files into my 'AppData' for the game because the folder was empty and I had read other forums suggesting to manually enter an options.inifile, which I had tried but had not worked. Even with an exact copy of the existing and working files from my parents Windows 10 computer, it still did not work on mine.I tried running compatibility mode on the game with various options, but none of them worked.I still got the 'Program is not Responding' error message while trying to load the game, and more often I've been receiving the 'Cannot locate CR-ROM' error, which makes me wonder, is it perhaps my external disk drive that's the problem? Because it worked toinstall the game, works to load CD's or burn them, etc.
But for whatever reason the game just will not run.Any feedback or potential fixes would be greatly appreciated. I am not quite sure what the problem is, but i am suspecting it is 100% driver/OS related.I can run my disc perfectly fine on my windows 7 computer which I upgraded months ago. However my laptop had problems running bfme2 when it was still on windows 8.1 (I still don't know how I got it to work but it worked only once). Compatibility mode isnot going to work for anyone, all you can hope to get there is telling it to run it as administrator.
If you change the windowsversion compatibility 99/100 times you will get 'insert correct disc' pop-up.One of the strange things I noticed on my system: the game launches with the default missingicon icon in the task bar. Then quickly my screen flashes and it has no icon at all. After that the screen will go black a moment (like it is actually launchingproperly) and then it stops working (sometimes even without a '. has stopped working' pop-up.For anyone trying to find a fix: options.iniwill be missing after installing but it isnot the source of this bug/crash.
Different resolutions in the options file did not matter on any system I have checked this on.So far I have no reason to believe that the problem lies within the disc/software (other then the options.ini missing)Neither do I have any reason to believe that the version of windows is what matters, it is a DRIVER RELATED PROBLEM.I was on the point of downgrading back to windows 8.1 when I decided to check video/audio drivers, turned out that my video driver somehow messed up with it. After uninstalling the driver it finally launched!If anyone has problems fixing the.ini file, google bfme2 startup fixer.
It creates the map when it is missing along with some default setting (if your game doesn't run after running that fix I suggest you simply give up.TL;DRThis is most likely a driver related issue, since it isn't game/disc related OR OS related at all. Please do however always insure that you have the options.ini file before trying to downgrade/upgrade your drivers or anything else.The driver causing the issue on my PC: Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500. Latest version. I have it running on my laptop on windows 10.what I did was the following. And I don`t even know much about PC`s lel ^^I just read through some posts and everyone was either for the options.ini thing or compatibility mode. Now I saw the driver thing twice (yes I have been looking into this since 2 weeks//I don`t have a life) and I checked and I found out that in windows10 if you right click on BFME2 then you can pick the graphics processing unit (I dunno what it`s real name is but you`ll notice it) and click on the thing that says change standarized settings.Then the NVIDIA setup should open after some time and you should click (in 3D-Settings) on Global Settings.
Then select the other one (not the INTEL one). Although this only works on hybrids it is a step closer to VICTORY xD.Hope this helped.
Here is a list of games that work and may not work with Windows 10. @FireEmblemMan:This is what i was afraid of.
I don't care if its a handful of games it 100% compatible or no buy. I love older games. No way am i going to be stuck not being able to play my baldurs gate, torment, fallouts, system shock, theif, deus ex, etc.
I don't care about new console ports only about older pc exclusives, and especially ones from pre-2007.Screw you ms. Get your shit together or get out!You can't blame MS for not able to get all games to work on the new OS, that's all up to the publishers.
@FireEmblemMan:This is what i was afraid of. I don't care if its a handful of games it 100% compatible or no buy. I love older games.
No way am i going to be stuck not being able to play my baldurs gate, torment, fallouts, system shock, theif, deus ex, etc. I don't care about new console ports only about older pc exclusives, and especially ones from pre-2007.Screw you ms. Get your shit together or get out!You can't blame MS for not able to get all games to work on the new OS, that's all up to the publishers.Why not?It's their OS and they are advertising it for gaming on PC. And the killer point is the older games work with their older OS, publishes have nothing to do with it. @FireEmblemMan:This is what i was afraid of. I don't care if its a handful of games it 100% compatible or no buy.
I love older games. No way am i going to be stuck not being able to play my baldurs gate, torment, fallouts, system shock, theif, deus ex, etc. I don't care about new console ports only about older pc exclusives, and especially ones from pre-2007.Screw you ms.
Get your shit together or get out!You can't blame MS for not able to get all games to work on the new OS, that's all up to the publishers.Why not?It's their OS and they are advertising it for gaming on PC. And the killer point is the older games work with their older OS, publishes have nothing to do with it.Maybe because old games uses older codes and MS has no power to tell publishers what to do? So far it's only a small list. @FireEmblemMan: The problem is the games i listed aren't on the compatible list either. Its a toss up gamble if any of my classics will work on the new os. I don't want to retire my windows 7 pc that plays them all fine for one that only 3 out of 50 games work. There are 10000s of games, where are they on this list?Old code should work if it worked on win7, unless they removed functionality which would limit compatibility (like when windows 98/me went to windows xp/2000.The publishers have nothing to do with it.
Hell Interplay, Origin, Troika, Westwood, even Aces Ensemble and FASA (ms studios) etc are not even around anymore. Gaming on PC should be preserved for years to come. That is one of the benefits of playing games on pc. There is no generations. Full bc, and if it's not a thing than that is a problem. There shouldn't even be a list in the first place. IT should just work.This isn't xbox bc with lists and compatibility shit.
This is pc gaming. MS has had its head up the xbox ass for too long. Hell the writing was on the wall when at that pc e3 conference phil 'yeah I like pc gaming, but not really' spencer announced to waiting fans that you could play some xbone games on pc, but nowhere was there actaul new games like freelancer, age of empires etc. (also not on the list).
I don't believe things MS says in a post Gates run company. @FireEmblemMan: The problem is the games i listed aren't on the compatible list either. Its a toss up gamble if any of my classics will work on the new os. I don't want to retire my windows 7 pc that plays them all fine for one that only 3 out of 50 games work.
There are 10000s of games, where are they on this list?Old code should work if it worked on win7, unless they removed functionality which would limit compatibility (like when windows 98/me went to windows xp/2000.The publishers have nothing to do with it. Hell Interplay, Origin, Troika, Westwood, even Aces Ensemble and FASA (ms studios) etc are not even around anymore. Gaming on PC should be preserved for years to come. That is one of the benefits of playing games on pc. There is no generations.
Full bc, and if it's not a thing than that is a problem. There shouldn't even be a list in the first place. IT should just work.This isn't xbox bc with lists and compatibility shit. This is pc gaming. MS has had its head up the xbox ass for too long. Hell the writing was on the wall when at that pc e3 conference phil 'yeah I like pc gaming, but not really' spencer announced to waiting fans that you could play some xbone games on pc, but nowhere was there actaul new games like freelancer, age of empires etc. (also not on the list).
I don't believe things MS says in a post Gates run company.Well, when MS transition from DOS to NT, it nearly killed all the games to run on XP, until DOS-BOX was made. I'm sure majority of the games you want to play will be able to work. The list I provided didn't list all of them, but I assume a lot of gamers are experimenting with them. Windows 10 isn't out yet, but I was still able to play MegaRace and DOS-Box on my Windows 10 machine already. This is the problem with early adopting an OS.
The majority of games you can get working running compatibility mode, I don't see how windows 10 would be any different in this regard.You just contradicted yourself. You say there is no problem with early adopting an OS when you said, 'not really'.but then go on to admit that a portion games may not function and you speak about work arounds for some a majority of games, BUT not all the games people would own, just a majority. You are operating under a hypothetical since Win10 hasn't launched.in a thread about games that may or may not work with Windows 10.Who's talking majority? It's all the games or nothing.
If just a single game you purchased doesn't work, it's an issue. We can all see above it's more than just a single game that may present problems.Those that adopt an OS early are going to experience issues as patches roll in for games and many other programs as well. This is well known for decades.
I'm not sure if you are trying to justify an early adoption or what. I got a free Windows 10 upgrade coming my way too for all four of my gaming PCs, BUT I'm not certain I'm going to jump on board yet.I made a general statement that applies to early adopters of Operating Systems. You should quote the TC and talk to him about his list of games that may not work with Win10.
I don't know why I was quoted as this isn't my thread. This is all standard fare.If you adopt an OS early, expect problems/issues. Some will be quicks fixes and others will be complained about for years.
@FoxbatAlpha: seriouslyWell, it's all for BC, something that consolites (except Lemmings and Sheep) think that it's not important;)Sheep? BC?Can you play a NES cartridge on the WiiU?Is buying it from the Nintendo Store the same as BC? Is SOME 360 games available to play on the X1.complete BC?I'm not sure if thats correct, but I think this is a statement aimed just for taking a jab at the PS4.Which again.only shows it's domination by others being afraid of it's popularity.I sense the butthurt in you that you can't play all your PS3 games on your PS4, while Lemmings will enjoy playing their 360 games and Wii U owners able to enjoy their Wii and VC downloads.:P. This is the problem with early adopting an OS. The majority of games you can get working running compatibility mode, I don't see how windows 10 would be any different in this regard.You just contradicted yourself. You say not really.but then go on to talk about a portion or majority of games functions, not all the games.in a thread about games that may or may not work with Windows 10.Who's talking majority? It's all the games or nothing.
If just a single game you purchased doesn't work, it's an issue. We can all see above it's more than just a single game that may present problems.Those that adopt an OS early are going to experience issues as patches roll in for games and many other programs as well. This is well known for decades.You should quote the TC and talk to him about his list of games. I am sorry but what?
We are talking about the past 30 years of pc games here. Even now Windows 7 and 8 will not run certain games inless you use dosbox or use certain compatibility programs/patchs.