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How to make LOTR: The Battle Of Middle Earth 2 - The Rise Of The Witch King work under Windows 10.
Note: i have both the original Battle For Middle Earth 2 & The Rise Of The Witch King disk versions of the game (no crack or pirated version has/will ever be tested by myself).
What you need to do in step one is, a) installing The Battle For Middle Earth 2 game and close the program after installation (don't run it yet).
Step 2 you need to, b) download and install BFME_Startup_Fixxer.exe and run the program a first time which will write an important missing options.ini file into your game's folder located in;
This pc_Local disk (C:)_Users_user_AppData_Roaming_My Battle for Middle-earth 2-files (don't change your options.ini settings just yet)
Step 3 you need to run the game for a bit and create an account name for the game and also let it record/save a little bit of gameplay from for instance doing a quick skirmish game.
Next time you'd check the same game's folder it would list a few more maps containing the progress that you've already made ingame which is good for what comes next.
Step 4 you need to copy and paste that (same) options.ini configuration from My Battle for Middle-earth 2 files. (click the file and hold ctrl, while dragging it into the My The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king-files.
It would then look like similar to: This pc_Local disk (C:)_Users_user_AppData_Roaming_My The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king-files (or something similar depending on your own language/settings).
Note: i have experienced no luck (except for bad luck) from running the Startup_Fixxer.exe tool for The (expansion) Rise Of The Witch King game, which always resulted in giving me that same 'annoying' error message (disk not found).
Step 5 you can adjust your options.ini settings now, however i've noticed that setting your resolution too far beyond 1280 960 could result in triggering those same issues all over again, which then could lead to uninstalling and reinstalling everything from scratch (so tread carefully).
For me this was the only way of making both original games to run perfectly (without updates/mods etc) on Windows 10 (took me a bit but it's so worth it).. I hope this small guide will help others with the initial startup issues, including the no disk found error message...
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