The story for The Battle for Middle-earth II is divided into Good and Evil Campaigns. The Good Campaign focuses on Glorfindel, an Elf who is alerted to a planned attack on the Elven sanctuary of Rivendell. With help from the Dwarves and other Good forces, the Elves attempt to eliminate Sauron and his army to restore peace in Middle-earth. In the Evil Campaign, Sauron sends the Mouth of Sauron and the Nazgûl to muster wild Goblins. With his army, Sauron moves forward with his plan to destroy the remaining Good forces in the North. The Windows version of the game was released in March 2006 and the Xbox 360 version was released in July 2006.
The Battle for Middle-earth II is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
How to play on Windows
Instructions for The Battle for Middle Earth 2
Instructions for The Battle for Middle-earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-king (you need to download the base game first)
Instructions for The Battle for Middle-earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-king (YOU NEED BFME 2 FIRST)
I did try to launch the game, but the folder still did not appear. Upon launching I had the error message: ‘execution cannot proceed because D3DX9_27.DLL was not found’. Based on someone’s help in the comment section, this needs sorted first.
This error shows that a DirectX file is missing or damaged. To fix this, go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=35 and download the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer.
!!Watch out not to install the Bing Searchbar during installation!!
After installation, the game should start normally.
Once I started the game this way, the full interface appeared and the folder appeared in AppData. Just need to replace the Options.ini file.
Hope that helps a few of you!
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https://daemon-help.com/installation/windows_1903/
and it totally fixed the problem for me! hopes it works for you too