Game won't run in Windows 10 Home

[iloveatats]

I have the steam version of this game and when I play it, it changes the screen size but displays nothing. In the task manager it says that the game is not responding. I know its old but what do I do in order to be able to play this game?

[FrostByte]

This is the same problem I have been having. If anyone finds any solutions to this it would be greatly appreciated!

[FrostByte]

I solved it! You have to run the game in Windows XP compatability mode. That got it to work for me, good luck!

[jaxxia]

wer can i change the compatibiliti plz

[jaxxia]

it said i miss mcvcp120.dll

[FrostByte]

For pc if you right click on the application in your files you can change the compatability

[jaxxia]

I FOUND THE SOLUTION go download Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 download

it the solution

[Darthvader578]

If none of this works, do the following:
1. Open file explorer and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
2. Copy a file called "Steam.dll"
3. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blitzkreig 2 Anthology\Blitzkrieg 2\bin
4. Paste in that folder and try starting the game.
5. Repeat the process with the other expansion packs.
Solution also works with other games with the same problem.

[mick.zenpunkchef.doherty8]

have same problem, also with original blitzkrieg

[s6c]

Right click on executable icon in bin folder in EXE folder, then go to compatibility.
Set to Windows XP (Service Pack 3), and you are good to go!!!

[mwarnerii]

If there is a problem you won't get error messages from running through Steam. You need to run game.exe to see any error messages that appears. The main game.exe is usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blitzkreig 2 Anthology\Blitzkrieg 2\bin The expansion packs have there game.exe in similar locations.
I have tested on two different computers running Windows 10 Pro 64bit version 1803.
On one computer I had no problems, since I already had a bunch of extra Microsoft stuff installed.
But on my other computer, I got many errors of missing files. I recovered from backup to double check
results.
Though my Windows is 64-bit, the game is 32-bit, so you download the x86 versions. The following might not be your only choices, but they worked for me. They are full downloads you should keep in case Microsoft yanks them off later.

DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
Fixes d3dx9_43.dll

Update for Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4032938/update-for-visual-c-2013-redistributable-package
Fixes MSVCP120.dll and MSVCR120.dll

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable Update 3 RC
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685
Fixes MSVCP140.dll and VCRUNTIME140.dll

After all that, clicking on game.ese still didn't get me to the game menus, but no errors were given. I had tinker with compatibility settings (right click, select properties then compatibility); I tried different setting each time and worked, since Windows compatibility troubleshooter then kicked in.