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Revision as of 15:42, 29 January 2024
For the 1985 game, see The Fellowship of the Ring.
Developers | |
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Surreal Software | |
Publishers | |
Black Label Games | |
Universal Interactive | |
Engines | |
Riot Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 24, 2002 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 59 |
IGDB | 51 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Adventure, RPG |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Middle-earth |
Availability
- This game is not available digitally.
Essential Improvements
Patches
Patch 1.1 (US copy only) can be downloaded here.
Game Data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Run Fellowship.exe with -setup command line argument and tick Windowed Mode. |
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Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Triple Buffering. VSync does not work on Windows 10. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Causes issues during combats, dialogues and cutscenes. Cursor mouse in menus is broken over 75 FPS. See High frame rate issues. |
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High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
- The game uses internally an aspect ratio of 3:2 by default.
- This fix was only tested on the US v1.1 version, so the location of the hex value to change might differ for other localizations and versions.
Hex edit Fellowship.exe [1]
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Enabled by default. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music and SFX. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Details | |||
Russian |
Issues fixed
Black Screen on startup
Use dgVoodoo2 WIP94.1 from here[2] |
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Use 3D-Analyze[citation needed] |
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Notes
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High frame rate issues
Limit the Frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Set the refresh rate to 60 Hz[citation needed] |
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VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | 2000, ME, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 600 MHz | Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 800 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | Single-pass, multi-texture, and hardware T&L support 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | Nvidia GeForce 4 64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring PC 'How to fix game and play in 4K Resolution' Guide - last accessed on 2024-01-29
- ↑ dgVodooo 2.8.x and related WIP versions - last accessed on 2024-01-29