Hello. Im new here. Original CD problem in LotR battle for the middle earth.

[HighwayUK]

Both me and a mate bought this game and mines fine on my Pioneer dvd driver, but he had to replace his dvd drive to get his one to work. His old dvd drive is a ASUS model that shares same maufactured model as my pioneer A105, but His firmware was 1.3, where as Pioneer has 1.33 fix firmware, which although untested, i read may work for the asus drive (use at own risk!)

This is a fairly widespread problem with the game....according to EA's own Forums....i suggest you look there for help