Lord of the rings battle for middle earth II crashes on intel i7 4770k running intel graphics HD 4600 on windows 10 64-bit, but worked fine on windows 7 64-bit.

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The game worked fine on all versions of the graphics drivers on windows 7, however has since not worked on any graphics driver on windows 10 running intel hd 4600 graphics.

The game crashes on launch no matter what compatability mode I put it in. No change to the option ini have proved fruitful.

The games internal crash report:

Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 10.0.14321.1024 X86

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Loading Dump File [I:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Lord Of The Rings Battle For Middle Earth II\DUMP_1.00.2194.40862_20160812-071108_97841C88-0A94-434c-BC21-989B5A9DC4D4_7772_11400.dmp]

User Mini Dump File: Only registers, stack and portions of memory are available

Symbol search path is: srv*

Executable search path is:

Windows XP Version 2600 (Service Pack 3) MP (8 procs) Free x86 compatible

Product: WinNt, suite: SingleUserTS

Machine Name:

Debug session time: Fri Aug 12 07:11:08.000 2016 (UTC + 8:00)

System Uptime: not available

Process Uptime: 0 days 0:00:34.000

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This dump file has an exception of interest stored in it.

The stored exception information can be accessed via .ecxr.

(1e5c.2c88): Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second chance not available)

WARNING: Image I:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Lord Of The Rings Battle For Middle Earth II\game.dat section 6 extends outside of image bounds

eax=00000000 ebx=00000001 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00000438 edi=00000000

eip=77e47a1c esp=0019ce1c ebp=0019ce28 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na po nc

cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00200202

ntdll!NtGetContextThread+0xc:

77e47a1c c20800 ret 8

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I would like to try to replicate this issue, please fill out the following form as much as possible:

/thread/77761 https://communities.intel.com/thread/77761Copy and paste the sticky and fill it out. ThanksAllan.

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Were you able to fill out the information I have requested previously?

Allan.

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Sorry about the long wait for a reply, I just moved countries on june and the ISP has only this morning installed my internet. As you might Imagine I'am extremely busy now so I'am unable to fill out the form you requested right now, I will get around to it when I can which should be soon.

I have however found the solution:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25188/Intel-HD-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-10-64bit-3rd-Gen-BYT- Download Intel® Graphics Driver for Windows® 10 [15.33]

Version: 15.33.38.64.4252

For some reason this driver works with not only BFMEII and BFMEIIRise of the witch king, but also games made by the same dev and on the same engine known as Command and conquer 3 tiberium wars and C&C 3 kanes wrath.

Something must have been changed after this driver which broke game compatibility, It would be nice to see compatibility restored on newer drivers.

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Thank you for this information. I will forward this details to the appropriate department.

Allan.