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NOTE:For Windows, follow this guide here:Mac Instructions:Note 2: People in this thread have figured out how to run BFME II and RotWK as of 2020! It's out of the scope of this guide for now, but if you're ready to get your hands really messy, I wish the best of luck to you!How this guide works:We're going to leverage the latest Wine version (4.0), and trick it into thinking it's running on a 32-bit machine. If you're reading this guide in like 2022, you probably won't need to do this, and you should just try to directly install the game - but as of right now, this is the only way to get BFME to work.At each step, there will be the basic instruction, and then a spoiler tag if you need more help. This is because some of you will know how to install it based on the synopsis above, and some of you won't know how to mount a disk from the command line. This guide will work for you bothPrerequisites:If you're new, or not too comfortable with Linux, this guide may be a bit difficult (but not impossible) to follow. I recommend you get the help of a friend, Google, or just try, try and try again if you get stuck!If you have not previously installed wine:.
Install wineIf you have previously installed wine:. cd to your home directory. If that still doesn't work, paste this whole command in your terminal:mkdir -p /.wine/drivec/users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/My Battle for Middle-earth Files/touch /.wine/drivec/users/$USER/AppData/Roaming/My Battle for Middle-earth Files/Options.iniPlaying online:Right now, the T3AOnline launcher creates a thread in some weird fashion to kick off the game.dat that's not currently supported by Wine. I have tested this fairly extensively on Wine 4.5 and was unable to make it work. If you're reading this in the future, or if T3AOnline receives another update, it may be worth trying again, but for now it's not easily possible.Edited by Before, Yesterday, 04:54 PM.
I actually miss Vista some times, but that's mainly because I played ALOT of LOTR Battle for Middle Earth 2.arguably the best stategy game ever made!:-D I didn't really work that well on Windows 7! Yeah windows 7 is at my other job, it's good as it's like XP (which I had for over 12 years as my home computer) but some stuff is in funny places. 38 Games Like Battle for Middle Earth 2 Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II: The Rise of the Witch-King expands the universe Tolkien created. This expansion pack to the fan favorite game series lets you command the rise of evil in Middle-earth while experiencing the epic battles that took place before the films.
NOTE: For Windows, follow this guide here:UPDATE: If you don't want to play online, you can just use this to install quickly: (I'm not sure if this installs all the patches)A while ago someone created which lets you play BFME on a Mac, and I was thinking I would give it a shot to port BFME to Debian-based Linux (i.e. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc) and make a guide for it (here). I put a catchy title so it can be caught by search engines incase a guide already exists (besides the Mac one linked above) so I can link it here, otherwise I could just keep updating the thread with my findings.Would people be interested in this sort of thing?Edit: Steps so far (will clean up)PRE-STEPS:- If you don't have wine installed, run sudo apt-get install wine- Run wine -version.
If your version is below 3.03, update it manually here: (the wget part doesn't work, download the key manually by pasting the URL in your browser, cd into the downloads folder and then run the next command). Download the BFME iso. Run sudo apt-get install furiusisomount. Run furiusisomount, click 'Mount' (top right), and open your.iso. Double click the mounted path so it opens in your explorer. Right click explorer and select 'Open in Terminal'. Run winecfg.
A 'Wine configuration' window should pop up. Echo 'AllHealthBars = yesAlternateMouseSetup = noAmbientVolume = 50AudioLOD = HighBrightness = 50FixedStaticGameLOD = UltraHighFlashTutorial = 0HasSeenLogoMovies = yesHeatEffects = yesIdealStaticGameLOD = LowIsThreadedLoad = yesMovieVolume = 70MusicVolume = 70Resolution = 1680 1050SFXVolume = 70ScrollFactor = 50StaticGameLOD = UltraHighTimesInGame = 54UnitDecals = yesUseEAX3 = noVoiceVolume = 70' options.ini. cd /.wine/drivec/Program Files (x86)/EA GAMES/The Battle for Middle-earth (tm)/. Run wine lotrbfme.exeEdit: t3aonline.exe doesn't work, so you'll have to go without the launcher. I'm sure future wine versions will fix that, so maybe if you're reading this guide in 2019 it'll work. NOTE: For Windows, follow this guide here:UPDATE: If you don't want to play online, you can just use this to install quickly: (I'm not sure if this installs all the patches)A while ago someone created which lets you play BFME on a Mac, and I was thinking I would give it a shot to port BFME to Debian-based Linux (i.e.
Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc) and make a guide for it (here). I put a catchy title so it can be caught by search engines incase a guide already exists (besides the Mac one linked above) so I can link it here, otherwise I could just keep updating the thread with my findings.Would people be interested in this sort of thing?Edit: Steps so far (will clean up)PRE-STEPS:- If you don't have wine installed, run sudo apt-get install wine- Run wine -version. If your version is below 3.03, update it manually here: (the wget part doesn't work, download the key manually by pasting the URL in your browser, cd into the downloads folder and then run the next command).
Download the BFME iso. Run sudo apt-get install furiusisomount. Run furiusisomount, click 'Mount' (top right), and open your.iso. Double click the mounted path so it opens in your explorer. Right click explorer and select 'Open in Terminal'. Run winecfg. A 'Wine configuration' window should pop up.
Echo 'AllHealthBars = yesAlternateMouseSetup = noAmbientVolume = 50AudioLOD = HighBrightness = 50FixedStaticGameLOD = UltraHighFlashTutorial = 0HasSeenLogoMovies = yesHeatEffects = yesIdealStaticGameLOD = LowIsThreadedLoad = yesMovieVolume = 70MusicVolume = 70Resolution = 1680 1050SFXVolume = 70ScrollFactor = 50StaticGameLOD = UltraHighTimesInGame = 54UnitDecals = yesUseEAX3 = noVoiceVolume = 70' options.ini. cd /.wine/drivec/Program Files (x86)/EA GAMES/The Battle for Middle-earth (tm)/. Run wine lotrbfme.exeEdit: t3aonline.exe doesn't work, so you'll have to go without the launcher. I'm sure future wine versions will fix that, so maybe if you're reading this guide in 2019 it'll work. Hi n thanks to the above instruction given by BEFORE.yeh i got BFME 1 working following above guide. Id updated wine before i started to most recent stable. Hi i still don't understand if i did something wrong in wine prefix maybe i chose emulator thinking i was setting the screen???i can get it to change pressing f1 key n frustratingly if the screen is right the cursor is off beside that it works ok if anyone knows how to help wih this id love to know as i miss playing this game which i had on xbox n was most played online game!n best buy of all the lotr games id had.plus this is such a surprise to me to find that i can still and i know my son would also love to play this game again ).
NOTE: For Windows, follow this guide here:UPDATE: If you don't want to play online, you can just use this to install quickly: (I'm not sure if this installs all the patches)A while ago someone created which lets you play BFME on a Mac, and I was thinking I would give it a shot to port BFME to Debian-based Linux (i.e. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc) and make a guide for it (here). I put a catchy title so it can be caught by search engines incase a guide already exists (besides the Mac one linked above) so I can link it here, otherwise I could just keep updating the thread with my findings.Would people be interested in this sort of thing?Edit: Steps so far (will clean up)PRE-STEPS:- If you don't have wine installed, run sudo apt-get install wine- Run wine -version. If your version is below 3.03, update it manually here: (the wget part doesn't work, download the key manually by pasting the URL in your browser, cd into the downloads folder and then run the next command). Download the BFME iso.
Run sudo apt-get install furiusisomount. Run furiusisomount, click 'Mount' (top right), and open your.iso. Double click the mounted path so it opens in your explorer. Right click explorer and select 'Open in Terminal'. Run winecfg. A 'Wine configuration' window should pop up. Echo 'AllHealthBars = yesAlternateMouseSetup = noAmbientVolume = 50AudioLOD = HighBrightness = 50FixedStaticGameLOD = UltraHighFlashTutorial = 0HasSeenLogoMovies = yesHeatEffects = yesIdealStaticGameLOD = LowIsThreadedLoad = yesMovieVolume = 70MusicVolume = 70Resolution = 1680 1050SFXVolume = 70ScrollFactor = 50StaticGameLOD = UltraHighTimesInGame = 54UnitDecals = yesUseEAX3 = noVoiceVolume = 70' options.ini.
cd /.wine/drivec/Program Files (x86)/EA GAMES/The Battle for Middle-earth (tm)/. Run wine lotrbfme.exeEdit: t3aonline.exe doesn't work, so you'll have to go without the launcher. I'm sure future wine versions will fix that, so maybe if you're reading this guide in 2019 it'll work. Updated the guide, removed some steps and added better scripts.While T3Aonline still doesn't work, I also recently got BFME I mods and BFME II working on Linux. I don't have guides up, but just know those are both possible following similar steps as in the instructionsIve tried to install BFME II using your guide above and the other install guide for windows, and im not having much luck at all. The installation seems to have gone ok but trying to launch the game only gets me the splash screen before it closes.Don't suppose youre thinking of writing a second guide for BFME 2 at all?
Or if you have a few notes on how best to debug whats going on?Happy to help figure this out together.Im running ubuntu 19.10 and wine-4.0.2 (Ubuntu 4.0.2-1) if that makes any difference.I do have BFME I working all thanks to you (your guide is top funking notch), so i can take a little slice of my teenage years with me everywhere.Seriously nice work manMany thanks. OK so BFME2 update.I completely removed the files and folders for BFME2 and re-ran the steps from this guide here:After some fiddling around it now works! ( the path should be /home//.wine/drivec/users//Application Data/My Battle for Middle-earth II Files/ in the other guide. )I'll try to put together a full guide for anyone thats really stumped but if you follow the steps slowly and carefully, then it should work just fine.The only hill to tackle now is RotWK which seems to throw gamedata errors with the patches installed the little scamp.I havent tried all the patches yet but when I hit v5 the game started demanding the CD so lower than that i likely a no go.If anyone has any ideas please chime in, im sure with just a few of us we can get this working.Cheers.
T3A:Online is a free custom online server for the Battle for Middle-earth series. We support BFME1, BFME2 and RotWK. T3A:Online integrates seamlessly into your BFME experience by requiring no third party software and allowing you to log in through the game's online interface and play against your friends and foes through our T3A:Online server.
T3A:Online supports all titles of the Battle for Middle-earth series: The Battle for Middle-earth, The Battle for Middle-earth II and The Rise of the Witch-king.
Please read the Setup instructions and see the Downloads section on how to play online - it's for free!
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2017/04/23 - T3A:Online supports RotWK
The Rise of the Witch-king is now officially supported and can be played on our server. With the new T3A:Online launcher all three games can be launched from the same interface!
The Rise of the Witch-king is now officially supported and can be played on our server. With the new T3A:Online launcher all three games can be launched from the same interface!
- You need the new launcher to play RotWK online
- The launcher now introduces a feature called hooking
- Hooking allows you to start the game with its normal shortcut
- RotWK has its own online status information on T3AOnline.net
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What doesn't work yet:
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