Solution to the problem when starting Brothers in Arms on windows 10

[tomas]

It seems a joke, but, all the errors that I had in windows 10 were solved in this way, go to: (Steam - steamapps - common - Brothers in arms Earned in Blood - System) select BIA.EXE and give right click, execute as an administrator, and that's it.

[fnkimnki]

The only thing I had to do was start in windowed mode. When the game starts for the first time, press alt+enter and change resolution from there. You may have to edit eib.ini to your full window resolution.

[tomas]

I've done it and the game works fine in window mode at 1920 x 1080 but when you hit it ALT + ENTER it starts ticking and closes alone.

[Dan Is A Cycling Fool]

Yes, I am able to run it on Windows 10 64 bit...no "Administrator" or "Compatibility Modes" required.

For graphical crashes and the dreaded "Application has been blocked from accessing the graphics hardware" message:

Right click the game and select the "Local Files" tab. Click "Browse Local Files". Right click and Edit "EIB.INI". Control-F to find "StartupFullscreen=True" and change it to "StartupFullscreen=False". Save the file. Brothers in Arms will now run in windowed mode without crashing.

It's not as good as Full Screen mode, but as none of the various methods I found using Google worked, it's a lot better than nothing. This fix probably would have worked on my Retail copy of BIA as well, but I bought the Steam version in an attempt to fix exactly this issue. Oh, well.

This fix also works for Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. The only difference is that you edit "BIA.INI" instead.