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The Battle for Middle-earth II
The Battle for Middle-earth II cover
Developers
EA Los Angeles
Expansion BreakAway Games
Publishers
Electronic Arts
New Line Cinema
Engines
SAGE
Release dates
Windows March 2, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 84
IGDB 81
Taxonomy
Monetization Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Fantasy
Series The Battle for Middle-earth
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II on HowLongToBeat
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II on IGDB
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II guide on StrategyWiki
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II on MobyGames
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II on Wikipedia
The Battle for Middle-earth
Subseries of Middle-earth
The Battle for Middle-earth 2004
The Battle for Middle-earth II 2006

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.
GameSpy online server browser deactivated on December 31, 2010 due to Electronic Arts losing the Lord of the Rings license.[1]

General information

T3A:Online - fan-hosted multiplayer server replacement
BfME II section on GameReplays.org - home to the unofficial 1.09 patch
BfME II: HD Edition
BfME II RotWK section on GameReplays.org - home to the unofficial 2.02 patch
BfME II RotWK HD Edition

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is no longer available digitally. It was taken down from digital stores, as Electronic Arts lost the Lord of the Rings license at the end of 2010.
Physical copies used to activate on Origin, they no longer do[4].

Demo

The free demo can still be downloaded here or here.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Rise of the Witch-king
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\movies\
  2. Delete or rename CS01.vp6, EALogo.vp6, TE_LOGO.vp6, NLC_LOGO.vp6 and NewLineLogo.vp6.
For languages other than English the EA logo file played is a localised version extracted from the archive file <path-to-game>\lang\LanguageName.big. To remove the video you would need to edit this file, for instance with a custom tool such as FinalBIG (at wagnerma.de/yinger/showdownload.php?detail=1).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\My Battle for Middle-earth(tm) II Files\options.ini

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\My Battle for Middle-earth(tm) II Files\save

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai

Issues fixed

Game not starting on Windows 7 and later

When first starting the game after the installation the game instantly crashes with an error.
Manually creating options.ini[citation needed]
  1. Locate the default folder for the options.ini at %APPDATA%\My Battle for Middle-earth(tm) II Files
  2. Right click, create a new Text Document and name it options.ini
  3. Open your new .ini and insert the following lines:
AudioLOD = High
FlashTutorial = 0
HasSeenLogoMovies = yes
IdealStaticGameLOD = High
Resolution = 1024 768
StaticGameLOD = High
TimesInGame = 6
Make sure to change the Resolution value to your preferred resolution.
4. Save your changes
5. You should now be able to start the game normally

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
Official servers have been shut down.[7]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy Shut down in 2011.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.6 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 8500
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Online mode requires 512 MB of system RAM.


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]

References