| 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: The Rise of the Witch-king is a real-time strategy video game published by Electronic Arts, based on the Lord of the Rings film series based on the book, directed by Peter Jackson. The Rise of the Witch-king is the official expansion to The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, which was published by the same company and released in 2006, for Microsoft Windows.
Download The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king
We might have the game available for more than one platform. The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king is currently available on these platforms:
Windows (2006)
BFME 2 + Rise of the Witch King.rar (3.75 GB)
How to play on Windows
- 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.
- While waiting for your download, make sure that you have a software called Daemon Tools installed on your computer.
- Extract the “BFME 2 + Rise of the Witch King” folder to your desktop.
- Drag the folder to your C:// disc on your computer.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- You can now run the game from the desktop shortcut, and the insert a CD message should go away.
- Enjoy the game!
Instructions for The Battle for Middle-earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-king (YOU NEED BFME 2 FIRST)
- 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!
- Open the folder called Rise of the Witch King and then the folder called RoTWK Installer. Inside the
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- You can now run the game from the desktop shortcut.
- Enjoy the game!
Additional files, patches and fixes
The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king Screenshots
Windows
is it even possible for the game to work on windows 11?
before i download. was the best game when i was kid…
Tried to extract the files and keeps running into an error.
I have the same problem
Is it possible to change the Game Language?
Windows XP Avast found a virus on BFME2.exe; ran the game and after few seconds crashed windows and rebooted the machine.
When it rebooted my usb drive was wiped.
Do yourself a favor and just use a different version of the game with the nocd crack… this seems to be not working at all (plus you need like 25 GB of space between the installation and the actual image of the disk)
Don’t forget to mount it in Daemon tools as SCSI, because by default it is mounted as DT
The cd issue with daemon tools, you have to mount the 9kb file not the big one, and very important to mount it as SCSI, if not it won’t work. Daemon tools’s is set for DT mount by default. Then when I launched the game it disappeared for both BFME2 and ROTWK. Really check %appdata% if you have the folders for both, if not try to create them or reinstall the game because something went maybe wrong, then the ‘options.ini’ file is very important to copy it in those folders, this was the cause of the game disappearing, it worked after checking these. And yeah for the install try the default program files x86 folder and then you can just move it. Hope this helps.
yes i agree , i did everything till the end , and it is still asking for cd :))
me too
it keeps asking for cd, the daemon tools don’t do shit, waste of time
Don’t forget to mount it in Daemon tools as SCSI, because by default it is mounted as DT
The multiplayer is broken
the multiplayer game has lost synchronization data between the players.
Both computer uses the same files
I can’t find the “My Battle for Middle-earth ™ II Files” folder and “My The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king Files” folder in both of the step 5. Can anyone help me?
Same issue here! also, mounting the image with daemon tools isn’t working either anymore! agh!
you have to make the folder yourself:
in appdata—-> right click —> newfolder —-> name it (My Battle for Middle-earth ™ II Files)—–> copy options.ini into the folder
you have to make the folder yourself:
in appdata—-> right click —> newfolder —-> name it (My Battle for Middle-earth ™ II Files)—–> copy options.ini into the folder
For anyone who gets insert cd1. For me helped move folder from Desktop (or any other directory) directly into C:/ … then it worked.
Thanks You actually just same me many hours
Okay everyone, I found a place where it worked.
Here, you can find the links for the game(s) unpached, then of the patch, the way to instal them for making it work.
https://forums.revora.net/topic/105190-bfme1bfme2rotwk-games-download-installation-guide/
Finally, take a look there for the most recent patch
https://www.moddb.com/mods/rotwk-patch-202/downloads/rotwk-patch-202-v900
And to Age of the Ring mod (a side mod) updated recently. Enjoy the games, the mods, and your life. (I searched this for too long, so I share everything now.)
https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-horse-lords-a-total-modification-for-bfme
Hi everyone! I tried to follow every instruction, unfortunetly the game won’t response after launching (no pb with the cd issue) : what would cause sutch a matter ? thank you all !
I’ve got no idea. It seems I installed it properly but the CD doesn’t seem to be the right one :/ It would be great if it was updated ! (it asks me to put the right CD… when I did it i)
cant even install, i get insert cd1 before any thing even goes
shame after getting BFME1 from here, having to jump threw hoops to get this to work and you cant even install it all well
won’t even install without “insert CD into Drive:C” went through the steps again to trouble shoot or mabey mount iso file to get it to install? nope, dead end, would love some tech support