Vista - lotr :bfme 2

Can anyone tell me how to get battle of middle earth 2 running on vista
ultimate edition? i have googled it and ppl have got it running but i dont
know how as i have nearly tired every combo in the compatiblity screen. From
John

"John" <johnrubble1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:elfKcTJJIHA.5400@xxxxxxcheck my sig then we have it running
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Try right clicking the exe and select "Run as Administrator". You can do
that in addition to the compatibility settings.

Also, are you getting any errors, or will it just not start?

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John wrote:

all i get is it to start loading then it just stops on titile screen and
says bfme 2 has stopped working looking for a solution. I have tried
checking the admin box turning off the the uac and it still doesnt work. I
have update the patches for it and am running the lastest drivers for my
graphics card. I have followed EAs advice in there forum. I have followed
VG scottys ideas but still cannot get it to work.

"John" <johnrubble1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O6$hW4UJIHA.3916@xxxxxxWe are working on it now John, will let you know.
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many thanks i have followed the link at the bottom of your message and have
joined many thanks for your help.

On Nov 13, 3:52 am, "VRG Scotty" <vrg-sco...@xxxxxx>
wrote:Hey VRG Scotty, i have exactly the same problem as john (bfme2 not
running on windows vista), did you end up solving it? If so, could you
please tell me.



Cheers, Sean

<123Collins123@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dbf692e5-6c20-4096-928b-12321b437e73@xxxxxxRight I installed the game on my machine, and it went in just fine (I also
have UAC turned off and didn't bother running it in compat mode) and ran
without a problem, so I also installed it on my laptop and also it was fine,
so I'm waiting for a colleague to test it on his machine and see if we can
get it to fail, it's frustrating that we can't get it to fail (I know it
sounds strange) as I really want to sort this problem out.
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On Nov 17, 9:32 pm, "VRG Scotty" <vrg-sco...@xxxxxx>
wrote:Thanks man, i appreciate it.


Sean

<123Collins123@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9108febc-6147-4570-b030-f7063be8ba64@xxxxxxOK so we installed the game on my colleagues machine and it froze at startup
(great we thought, we have the problem) so we turned off UAC, still no joy,
ran in compat mode, still no joy, then we gave the game exe and dat files
full permissions and atfer about a minute of watching the splash screen for
the game it fired into life and worked fine.
So here's the fix that worked for us (taken from VRG as suggested by
Janesty)

Right click the lotrbfme2.exe and go to properities, and then goto the
Security tab, and look and the level of permissions for your user account.
On mine only 'Read and execute' and 'Read' were checked. I gave full
permissions to lotrbfme2.exe and game.dat and restarted the game.

Hope this also works for you guys.
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