To get battle for middle earth 2 to work on windows 10 guide = Set the Compatibility mode to run in XP Service Pack 3 (right click the shortcut and make the change in the Compatibility tab) Set the preference to run the program as Administrator in the same tab Press Okay Go to c:\users[username]\AppData\Roaming\My Battle for Middle-earth(tm) II Files (this will most likely be empty) Click ‘View’ on the windows explorer menu Choose to “Show File Extensions” Right click in the directory and choose “New” and choose Text Document In the document add these 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 = 55 UnitDecals = yes UseEAX3 = no VoiceVolume = 70 Save file as options.ini IMPORTANT the file will be named options.ini.txt so you need to delete the .txt part of this. The icon will change from a text document to an ini file.