The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II

What works

Single player works without problem there is lag similar to windows too

What does not

Multiplayer - lan and afther patching no lan function!Cause usage of cracked data file!!!Without it problem in lan you are double present no posibal host or join games always gets disconnected who ever you want to play with.

Workarounds

What was not tested

modifying with 3rd party programs

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Only problem lan or multiplayer.

Installing Wine with Cursor Support

To get proper cursors in the game, you need to patch Wine, which can be done as follows.

• Download Wine 0.9.48  and the cursor patch archive to the same directory.
• Unpack the archives.
  

mkdir cursor_patches_20070428
tar -xvjf cursor_patches_20070428.tar.bz2 -C cursor_patches_20070428
tar -xvjf wine-0.9.48.tar.bz2

• Enter the Wine directory.
  

cd wine-0.9.48

• Apply the cursor patches.
  

for i in `ls ../cursor_patches_20070428`; do patch -p1 < ../cursor_patches_20070428/$i; done

• Update wineserver.
  

tools/make_requests

• Configure, build and install Wine. You can choose another install path if you want to. Be sure that all requirements are met.

./configure --prefix=$HOME/wine-0.9.48-bfme2
make depend && make
make install

• Delete unneeded files.

cd ..
rm -rf wine-0.9.48 wine-0.9.48.tar.bz2 cursor_patches_20070428 cursor_patches_20070428.tar.bz2

• It is recommended to create a new Wineprefix for the game. Of course you can choose any other path for your Wineprefix.
  

$HOME/wine-0.9.48-bfme2/bin/wineprefixcreate --prefix $HOME/.wine/bfme2

• Before you can start the installation you have to download gdiplus.dll and copy it to ~/.wine/bfme2/drive_c/windows/system32.
• Set Windows XP as Windows Version for the BFME2 Wineprefix:

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine/bfme2 $HOME/wine-0.9.48-bfme2/bin/winecfg

• Run the installation by executing AutoRun.exe on your game DVD. Remember to customize the pathes.

cd /media/cdrom0
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine/bfme2 $HOME/wine-0.9.48-bfme2/bin/wine AutoRun.exe

• Download Patch 1.06 and a crack and install them in order to make the game work.
• To avoid graphic issues open the registry editor.

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine/bfme2 $HOME/wine-0.9.48-bfme2/bin/regedit

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"

• The game runs much slower under Wine than under Windows.
  
• Descriptions for some objects are missing.