The Battle for Middle-earth II

Publishers EA Games
Developers EA Los Angeles
Release date 2006
Genre Strategy
Game rating

Game Description

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts. It is based on the fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and its live-action film trilogy adaptation. It is the sequel to Electronic Arts’ 2004 title The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth.

Download The Battle for Middle-earth II

We might have the game available for more than one platform. The Battle for Middle-earth II is currently available on these platforms:

Windows (2006)

BFME 2 + Rise of the Witch King.rar (3.75 GB)

How to play on Windows

  1. Click on the download button. It should redirect you to your download. Make sure you download the file properly and that your internet does not disconnect while downloading.
  2. While waiting for your download, make sure that you have a software called Daemon Tools installed on your computer.
  3. Extract the “BFME 2 + Rise of the Witch King” folder to your desktop.
  4. Drag the folder to your C:// disc on your computer.
  5. Open the “BFME 2 + Rise of the Witch King” folder and then open the “Game Files” folder.

Instructions for The Battle for Middle Earth 2

  1. Open the folder called BFME2 and then the folder called BFME2 Installer. Inside the BFME Installer folder, you want to double click on the file called AutoRun.exe and the installer for The Battle for Middle Earth 2 should launch. Go through the game setup – at some point they will ask you to insert a CD-key. Use any one of these and finish the installation:
    • HNB3-GRYM-GLUS-HKTU-Y9V8
    • XLWW-55XX-5MB8-Q6QJ-5JAP
    • 42FP-FQES-GW72-MT37-MCGQ
    • QJXX-3TVM-EE2V-NUYU-SWDW
    • 3QWW-QZQ7-USET-Z8NQ-WUYB
    • HZKB-QJTS-W5E3-83PJ-K9AA
    • ATK3-5TTF-9HJH-3TRW-2F8F
    • M9NN-6NWW-5VRB-5KLN-EVV3
  2. If you run the game now, they will ask you to insert a CD so it will not work. What you have to do, is open up the software called Daemon Tools and then select add a new drive. You want the virtual drive to be “SCSI” and then select “Add drive”. If this part is a bit complicated, watch the video below and you can see how I did it for clearer instructions. You then want to drag the “MI-BFME2.mds” file (it will be 9KB) into the empty drive on Daemon tools. Note: If Daemon Tools doesn’t work, then use WinCDEmu.
  3. The next step, is that you want to go back into the folder called “Game Files”. In here, you want to open the “Options.ini” file (double click it). You will see a line of code which says “Resolution = 1920 1080”. You want to change these numbers to the resolution of your computer, and then save the document.
  4. Next, you want to click on your start menu and then search for %appdata% and you want to click on the %appdata% folder. This is usually C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming. Inside this folder, you want to find the folder called “My Battle for Middle-earth ™ II Files”. You want to open that folder, and then you want to copy, and then paste, the “Options.ini” file from step 3 into the “My Battle for Middle-earth ™ II Files” folder.
  5. You can now run the game from the desktop shortcut, and the insert a CD message should go away.
  6. Enjoy the game!

Instructions for The Battle for Middle-earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-king (you need to download the base game first)

  1. You will need to have The Battle for Middle-earth 2 base game installed before you can install this, so do the previous steps first!
  2. Open the folder called Rise of the Witch King and then the folder called RoTWK Installer. Inside the
  3. RoTWK Installer folder, you want to double click on the file called AutoRun.exe and the installer for The Rise of the Witch-king should launch. Go through the game setup – at some point they will ask you to insert a CD-key. Use any one of these:
    • HE55-26J3-XSSL-A58B-BZ96
    • YQFX-M2HH-LM62-NJ9T-KMZG
    • TJLC-V87P-E5CY-ELRS-VLYP
    • DJ7F-LB8A-NZDE-BJXN-8X8M
    • 3WH9-CR7P-4UPH-PPQE-DT39
    • GG22-XGJA-GQ96-YJJS-NKVG
    • HR55-MLNM-WFJN-UNWR-4X6T
    • JW9R-97QL-NRFW-QAFL-UDEX
  4. If you run the game now, they will ask you to insert a CD so it will not work. What you have to do, is open up the software called Daemon Tools and then select add a new drive. You want the virtual drive to be “SCSI” and then select “Add drive”. You then want to drag the “RotWk_Maxi-TheSmokingMan.mds” file (it will be 5KB) into the empty drive on Daemon tools.
  5. Next, you want to click on your start menu and then search for %appdata% and you want to click on the %appdata% folder. This is usually C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming. Inside this folder, you want to find the folder called “My The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king Files”. You want to open that folder, and then you want to copy, and then paste, the “Options.ini” file from before into the “My The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king Files” folder.
  6. You can now run the game from the desktop shortcut.
  7. Enjoy the game!

Additional files, patches and fixes

The Battle for Middle-earth II Windows ReadMe (English)

The Battle for Middle-earth II Screenshots

Windows

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628 thoughts on “The Battle for Middle-earth II”

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    Thanks a lot. At first, I thought it didn’t work. The game didn’t open until I copied the Options.ini to appdata folder. Now it works.
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    Why is the download file a different name? It says it’s the witch king game. Anyone else seeing that?
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    I got to step 4, but I don’t have the folder called “My Battle for Middle-earth ™ II Files” in the appdata folder. Any advice on why this folder doesn’t exist? I also noticed that I don’t yet have the desktop shortcut referenced in step 5. Both of these things I feel should be created during the initial install in step 1. At what point have people managed to get these bits created?
    Thanks
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      wtf is wrong with you man. If you struggled with the steps that’s fine, but to tell someone to kill themselves over a technical issue is just pathetic. Grow up
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    Everything installed correctly, and no problem with the drive, but when I run the game, it starts to run and then stops and the icon disappears. Any thoughts?
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    Hi I just got to the step 4. of installing BFME II (base game) and I just can’t find this Appdata folder. I mean, I do find other Appdata and Roaming folders and files, but none of them contain what the instructions say. They’re either blank or containing Microsoft stuff. Help please!
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      See if this helps:
      Goto the folder of the downloaded game
      Under BFME then Game Files, copy the options.ini file

      goto Windows explorer, the start rooting down thru the folders
      click C drive
      click Users
      click ‘Your account name’ (profile name for your PC login)
      click App Data (you might need to allow it to be seen
      –(Click on the View tab, the goto Showhide on the right and check the boxes for File names and Hidden items)
      –this should allow you to see App Data now as a selectable folder
      click Roaming
      click My battle for Middle earth
      copy the options.ini from the files from the download batch
      paste options.ini it into the My Battle for middle earth folder

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    Can’t install Rise of the Witch-King because it says I don’t have Battle for Middle-Earth 2 installed on my computer (even though I do.) Does the original game have to be installed in a specific place for the ROTW installer to detect it?
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    Hi … I have the same problem as the other guy commented:
    After installing the game and entering the cd-key I have this error message:
    The code could not be executed because D3DX9_27.DLL was not found. Reinstalling the program may correct this problem.

    What should I do? I do have this code in my windows file.

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  15. ▲0▼
    After installing the game and entering the cd-key I have this error message:

    The code could not be executed because D3DX9_27.DLL was not found. Reinstalling the program may correct this problem.

    What should I do? I do have this code in my windows file.

    Reply

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