The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

Developers
	Pandemic Studios
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	Zero
Release dates
Windows	January 9, 2009

The Lord of the Rings

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	2021

Key points

Online multiplayer no longer officially supported. A fan tunnel is up. See Network.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 7 and SecuROM PA DRM, unknown machine limit. A De-Authorization Tool is available.

This game is no longer available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Lord of the Rings - Conquest\pc.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Lord of the Rings - Conquest\<user-id>_Save.dat

Video settings

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Can be disabled in the video settings menu.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input settings

Control settings.

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

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		16
Online play		16	CNQreboot hosts a Tunngle server.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon LE-1640 or equivalent	AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	6 GB	6 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT	Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX