LotR: Battle for Middle-Earth [ENGLISH] No-CD/Fixed Image

[Joe Forster/STA]

Dear aliwualk,

I challenge you to start reading _every_ single thread, that has at least one new article, _every_ single day, as I do. But only for a _month_, not for years, as I've been doing. Then you will understand how tiring and annoying it is to see the same questions asked again and again...

Joe

[aliwualk]

i didnt mean to tell off any body.
I read so many post , from here to there to many diferent things and i agreed with you that some people just post without read before post.
Thats all about post, people post, i know will be anoying but things come be done better as any other thing in live.
Before i post any were, i use the search on the forum and if come out things then i read.
What i mean that people just dont say help because so, we are noobies and we dont know how thing are done, but i find unsual that a gay post 15 post a day telling people off, will be better if you have to read the post move to where it has been posted ? or some thin similar.

any way i hope you understand that aswell it is anoyng find people expending all day telling people off.

cheers every single one.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi aliwualk,

In a retro-moderated forum, like this, it is the moderator's privilege and job to tell people when they don't behave as expected by the forum rules. As noone is paid here to help others - and the moderators are the ones spending the most time on the forum -, if someone cannot behave, oh well... there are so many other forum he or she can visit. Where, perhaps, the rules are not this tight and/or the moderators are not this "nasty"... It's this simple.

Joe

[aliwualk]

Hi, Joe

I agreed , very very enough.

Moderators can do any thing,they DONT get pay , exactly, but dont mean any thing if they dont say it properly.

Today u r here , tomorrow may not. why so much stress ?¿.

Any way untill today i dint solve the problem , i ll wait to see if some one could do a better explanation for noobies as me.

thx all lot.

[Alanor the Drunk]

Sad but true, I PURCHASED the game three days ago, valid CD-Key, original CD's...etc.

After following along with the tutorials, reading the manuals, and configuring the game for opt. performance on my system, I settled in for a nice LONG gaming session...but... Five min. into the game. "YOU HAVE BEEN DEFEATED"

I promptly contacted EA games support, and was given a copy of what I'm assuming is a standard "reply letter" to anyone who complains, pretty much a WORD-FOR-WORD copy of whats in the "trouble-Shooting" section of the manual.

About 20 e-mails later, I'm STILL not able to play, and recieving NO help from EA, of course Best Buy wont take the game back (opened) and I'm finding little or NO help on the net.

Re-installing, or running the "setup" prog. makes no difference. Just so everyone knows, this problem is NOT restricted to users that may, or may NOT have obtained thier copy of the game "officialy", As I have been in touch with 3 other RETAIL VERSION owners, who are encountering the same snag.

It's sad when you spend a nice CHUNK of cash (which could have been spent on BEER! ) on a game, then have to resort to "back-door tactics" just to play it.

[Magnum72]

1) Delete file Lotrbfme.dat from game directory
2) copy this string into blank !setup.reg file and load it
=================Cut=====================
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\EA Games\The Battle for Middle-earth]
"Language"="english"
"InstallPath"="C:\\GAMES\\TBME\\"
"Version"=dword:00010000
"MapPackVersion"=dword:00010000
"UseLocalUserMaps"=dword:00000000
"UserDataLeafName"="My Battle for Middle-earth Files"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\EA Games\The Battle for Middle-earth\ergc]
@="DZDD8NF64DBHYDFB0HLM"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA GAMES\The Battle for Middle-earth]
"DisplayName"="The Battle for Middle-earth (tm)"
"Installed From"="C:\\121212\\"
"Registration"="SOFTWARE\\Electronic Arts\\EA GAMES\\The Battle for Middle-earth\\ergc"
"CacheSize"="3351006208"
"SwapSize"="0"
"Language"="English US"
"Locale"="en_us"
"CD Drive"="C:\\"
"Install Dir"="C:\\GAMES\\TBME\\"
"Product GUID"="{3F290582-3F4E-4B96-009C-E0BABAA40C42}"
"Region"="Europe"
"Folder"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Ãëàâíîå ìåíþ\\Ïðîãðàììû\\EA GAMES\\The Battle for Middle-earth (tm)\\"
"Patch URL"="http://transtest.ea.com/Electronic Arts/The Battle for Middle-earth/Europe"
"Suppression Exe"="rtsi.exe"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA GAMES\The Battle for Middle-earth\1.0]
"Language"=dword:00000001
"DisplayName"="The Battle for Middle-earth (tm)"
"LanguageName"="English US"
=================Cut=====================

3) Get file from DVD Disk - lotrbfme_inst.exe & run it
4) Enjoy

[BladeZ]

If I delete the dat data the game doesnot start anymore!

[MaPomme]

Originally Posted by Magnum72

1) Delete file Lotrbfme.dat from game directory
2) copy this string into blank !setup.reg file and load it
=================Cut=====================
...
=================Cut=====================

3) Get file from DVD Disk - lotrbfme_inst.exe & run it
4) Enjoy

I think he must also do some editing on the paths. I don't know if his Windows will tolerate something like
C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Ãëàâíîå ìåíþ\ \Ïðîãðàììû\\EA GAMES\\

He is drunk, OK. But i'm not sure that's with Vodka...

Bonjour chez vous,
Ma Pomme

[aliwualk]

he means....

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Menú Inicio\Programas\EA GAMES\La Batalla por la Tierra Media(tm)\



mine its spanish sorry but i think you gays can figure out, he copy from another language.

any budy try it =??

[Magnum72]

sorry, this string equivalent
C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\EA GAMES\\

[BladeZ]

WHat should I do? If I delete the dat data tha game does not start!
There was a Tool which helped in generals to modify the dat with your ip! May it be possible to change this tool so that it makes this for BoM!

[tbaher]

Originally Posted by aliwualk

but i find unsual that a gay post 15 post a day telling people off,

Yes yes .. homosexual people are the same as heterosexual people.. welcome the real world where being gay doesn't affect the number of posts you make a day..

PS: That was a semi-sarcastic way of saying don't use gay as a negative thing.

[Alanor the Drunk]

based on the spelling in the rest of the post... it's possible that he had intended to write "GUY", rather than "gay"... wouldn't be the WORST thing he misspelled....lol

(You'll notice that I edited this post... I had to correct my own spelling errors..LMFAO!!!)

[tbaher]

very insightful

[aliwualk]

Originally Posted by tbaher

Yes yes .. homosexual people are the same as heterosexual people.. welcome the real world where being gay doesn't affect the number of posts you make a day..

PS: That was a semi-sarcastic way of saying don't use gay as a negative thing.

sorry for that "mistake" i dint meaning..only that i and spanish ,can u see how bad is my english ?
, i mean "guy " sorry again .


Another thing , and the best, Mr Magnum72, thx very much , now it is working well on LAN , no unit exploits.


thx to every one helped.