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

[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
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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"
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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
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...
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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!

[Magnum72]

Originally Posted by 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!

you mast change path to you game

[BladeZ]

Which path do you mean?

[Magnum72]

Originally Posted by 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!

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\EA Games\The Battle for Middle-earth]
"Language"="english"
"InstallPath"="paste\\you\\path\\to\\game"
"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:\\"
"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"="paste\\you\\path\\to\\game"
"Product GUID"="{3F290582-3F4E-4B96-009C-E0BABAA40C42}"
"Region"="Europe"
"Folder"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programms\\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=====================

Change this string "paste\\you\\path\\to\\game"