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Like my Emperor question, I'm just interested in knowing what would be the very best way to play Dune 2 in 2026? On Windows 11? I'm not super interested in fan-made sequels or anything (but please tell me if there's any quality ones out there), just what I need to do to get it playing perfectly with the best quality of music, etc., as was available when the game was originally released. 

Bear with me, as I have not played the game in probably 15 years. I see a lot of information and apparently various options, but I'm wondering, simply: What is the best method to play Emperor: Battle for Dune in 2026? On my Windows 11 PC? Is this Emperor Reborn option the most sensible? 

hmm, that's kinda odd. I might guess that some kinda video setting isn't playing nice with the game, but even the Mission Launcher ain't booting up? even if you double-click THAT one in your d2k directory, and don't go through the gruntmods launcher? can't say I've heard of this one before. feels like every machine has a different problem with this game lol I guess you could try the dunemaster edition. it's an install package like gruntmods, but maintained by dato rather than gruntlord. if one version ain't working at all for somebody, usually the other one does. you can find its thread over here: other than that, you can try making sure your game exe is the latest one. Klofkac fixed all sortsa bugs and stuff. you can find his devlog thread over here: which also contains the latest version of the editor, if that's of any consideration. the game exe here will work with either gruntmods or dunemaster can also swing by the Landsraad to bounce some things back and forth more quickly. that discord server's pinned in this thread here: here's hoping that helps though edit: oh yeah, and try running the game exe and mission launcher in admin mode. the gruntmods launcher too, if you wanna go through that. admin mode fixes some other problems; maybe this issue is related to permissions too lol

Yeah, I double click on it and nothing opens. That's what I mean. The Mission Launcher button doesn't do anything when I click on it. It doesn't open.

have you tried launching the game exe by itself? Dune2000.exe in your d2k install directory. it should work just fine. just keep in mind that the menu is NOT upscaled to whatever resolution you set the game to. cutscenes will be stretched though, if you have that option enabled you could also go through the Mission Launcher application. it won't have cutscenes, but you can access all sorts of custom campaigns