1.06 is the latest patch for BFME2. The game has been patched many times. Most of the patches fixed balance between the factions and they improved the performance.
Old test results
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Enter following new keys into regedit path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Wine / Direct3D
UseGLSL = enabled
OffscreenRenderingMode = fbo
VideoMemorySize = 256
Run the game
env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine/BFME2/" $HOME/wine-0.9.48-bfme2/bin/wine "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battle for Middle-Earth II\lotrbfme2.exe"
Known Issues
The game runs much slower under Wine than under Windows.
Descriptions for some objects are missing.
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Black screen
by cyborgsmurf on Wednesday September 7th 2011, 15:54
Installed and used a no-cd patch/crack (game.dat ver 1.1 (ver 1.4 didnt work for me)) and the installation worked 100%. Game starts but with a black screen. Mouse appears with the right mouse-theme for the game and I can hear sounds when I supposedly hover over buttons. I did this with latest wine (2011-09-07). Any suggestions?
RE: Black screen by Vit Hrachovy on
Sunday September 11th 2011, 13:52
RE: Black screen by cyborgsmurf on
Sunday September 11th 2011, 15:26
just won't get past the first screen
by Mark  Ackerman on Wednesday February 16th 2011, 2:35
Help anyone,
I am trying to play BFME1 and 2 and both just won't get past the first screen. This must be a common error, I will answer any responses and I will do so diligently, Mark
SOLVED by Mark  Ackerman on
Sunday March 6th 2011, 4:43
Patch problems
by Nick Cuthbertson on Thursday September 10th 2009, 12:49
When I build wine it works fine for a while but eventually it says "error: too many arguments to function 'get_cursor_handle16'".
I am currently unable to play any windows games, although I was able to before I installed 1.1.8. Please advise.
Multiplayer
by Michel on Tuesday May 13th 2008, 4:12
hello all
I have à little questions
is someone try the multiplayer mode(lan) ?because from me it doesen't work at all i've tryed to create and join à party but i don't seeing any party and nobody can see me !!
Run BFME 2 without white characters
by Toni on Monday March 31st 2008, 5:32
Falling back to wine version 0.9.48 is not necessary at all. Go only back to wine version 0.9.56 and you don't have any trouble with the mouse cursor.
To avoid white characters in the game set the parameter "UseGLSL" in the wine registry to value "disabled". So the game runs not so fast as with parameter set to "enabled" but you can play the game.