Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth armageddon effect

[falinuszen]

OK I uninstalled then re-installed the game played the first four chapters today. I will try another crack tommorrow and see if it does it again but so far that seems to be the only common thread I can find between the armageddon effect and my game suddenly not working. I have used the gamecopyworld link for the English crack I will try another link next time to see if it works if anyone has any ideas or verified english cracks please let me know thank you for your time.

[M@chine]

....buy the game!

But even if you can't do that, for whatever reasons, there was another thread spread around a couple of weeks ago that mislead everyone. Most are lucky they didn't have a new trojan from some of the advice. Good luck in finding something that works! Let a nigga know if you find sumthing out!

"Git Crunked"

[BayernMB]

Here is a fix which worked for me (it can be found an another thread here):

Fix problem:

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\\Start Menu\\Programs\\EA GAMES\\"
"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


You just have to replace the bold text with your install directory.

[bierhuettl]

Simply reinstall it from the original setup, it needs the correct information in the registry, otherwise everything explodes. if you for example just copy the installation directory of the game from another computer without actually installing it to your own pc, then there is of course no registry data and everything explodes. simply install it from your original dvd/cd again over the normal setup routine and it will work, with or without crack :-)

guess in your case something ****ed up your registry data, since even the autorun of the game wasnt able to detect that it was already installed, like you wrote.

[falinuszen]

ok here is the fix i finally got.

copy these two files to a seperate location for updates

LOTRBFMe.dat
game.dat

Download the crack and copy game.dat over the one in your installed directory. next delete LOTRBFMe.dat. This file is created when you first click on the lotrbfme.exe file. all you have to do if you get the armageddon effect is delete LOTRBFMe.dat and click on lotrbfme.exe it will automaticly recreate the LOTRBFMe.dat file to match your regestry and you will not have the armageddon issue. thank you to all that gave helpfull replies. oh and machine learn to read the very first sentence says i purchased the game.