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
- 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 to download the base game 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 Screenshots
Windows
desktop works weirdly in terms of being part of “C:” for some programs and I guess this is one of them. I was getting insert cd key before I was supposed too, doing the steps @noone suggested, being in C: (I guess desktop wasn’t good enough for that). he also suggested uncompressed folder being separate from compressed archive but that might not be part of the solution as I had them together on a c: drive (not desktop) and it went to insert key rather than insert cd. To put it simply, placing the extracted folder of the downloaded archive into c: drive (not the desktop) fixed the “insert cd” prompt coming up to early. I am on windows 10.
thanks man. saved my day
Hello, everyone. I am on hard mode over here trying to install game on Linux, I have problem about “cannot locate CD-ROM” do anyone knows solution for linux ( am am instaling with lutris+wine)
it says insert the dvd inspite loading the iso file on virtual drive with daemon tools
i Just tried installation but get a fatal String error Does anyone have any advice??
does not install, goes to a please insert disk 1 in cd drive and wont move past it….
Nothing worked. Complete waste of time. Not everyone is tech savvy – download daemon tools nope. i dont want all this rubbish on my computer – just the game. If the game dont work we cant play; simple. The lord of the rings battle for middle earth 1+2+ witch king games will just die out!! So be it!!!
im with you, BFME1 was just a simple install… yet this isnt 🙁
you kinda sound like a bitch. are you a bitch?
i can’t find the bfme files in my appdata, any know what to do?
same
Did either of you figure this out? got caught on the same thing
it wasn’t there for me either, so i just created that folder in appdata. On Windows 11
all installed pressing play and i am getting Please insert correct CD-ROM Is there a fix for this?
Game runs fine, but none of the cutscenes play?
if i install Daemon or wincdemu, it causes my pc to have slow boot speed. 5min-8min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEa_0L1raKk&t=796s
use this link there is a tutorial on how to install and it worked fine on my windows 11 today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEa_0L1raKk&t=796s
use this link there is a tutorial on how to install and it worked fine on my windows 11 today
You can use the no cd patch from gameburnworld instead. first one for BFME and second one for RotWK:
https://www.gameburnworld.com/dl/dl.php?file=LordOfTheRingsBattleForMiddleEarth2v1.06FixedDatEng.rar
https://www.gameburnworld.com/dl/dl.php?file=LordOfTheRingsBattleForMiddleEarth2TheWitchKingv2.01NoDVDFixedDatEng.rar
The password for the rar file is: gbw
do i just replace the game.dat file or what?