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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
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 Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
The Hobbit 1982
The Fellowship of the Ring 1985
The Shadows of Mordor 1987
J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth 1988
The Crack of Doom 1989
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I 1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan 1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II 1992
The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) 2002
The Return of the King 2003
War of the Ring 2003
The Hobbit (2003) 2003
The Battle for Middle-earth (series)
The Lord of the Rings Online 2007
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest 2009
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North 2011
Lego Middle-earth (series)
Guardians of Middle-earth 2012
Middle-earth: Shadow (series)
Journeys in Middle-earth 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game 2019
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum 2023
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria 2023

Key points

Frame rate is 60 thanks to editing FinalBig
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
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.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[citation needed]
  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.

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

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

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.[4]

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.6 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB (Online: 512 MB)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce3
ATI Radeon 8500
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

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