Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth Forum

Ok, I was at a lan the other day and someone has cross-over set up on their mac, so I decided to help them out with getting this game running.

Installing the game off the cd worked like a charm, but then when it came to run the game after the installation it kept asking to insert the CD.

"in theory" using a cracked game.dat file [wink wink, nudge nudge] as a nocd crack got past this problem.

Next problem is, if you let the screen automatically go fullscreen in loading the game, you'll not have use of your mouse (sorry), nor will you be able to go back to window'd mode. You have to apple-Q the program, then while its reloading do the command-option-R to bring it back to window mode right after it tries to auto full screen you.

From there, there is no mouse pointer but the game otherwise seems to work fine, audio, picture, smoothness- its all there.

I have not tried to see if this will network play, how does cross-over handle apps that wanna communicate with the outside world?

Sarah Gath wrote:

I have not tried to see if this will network play, how does
cross-over handle apps that wanna communicate with the outside
world?

Just forward the Winsock API to Posix sockets, so the app can happily communicate over the network(TCP/IP at least, IPX needs root permissions). Since Microsoft's Winsock network code has its origin in BSD's Posix Sockets and the API is mostly the same, this works pretty well.

If the game uses DirectPlay, you have to install the DirectX runtime.

I have problems with the cursor too. I was looking and I see that wine doesn't open the *.ani cursor files ☹️ It is possible that CrossOver doesn't open this files too.

CrossOver doesn't support animated cursors yet. It's planned for a future version though because we have a few apps that need it.

I have the no cd game dat for it, but I don't know where to put it. Help would be great!

Don't upload any cracks to our website please, it is not legal to redistribute them in the United States.

BradB wrote:

I have the no cd game dat for it, but I don't know where to put it.
Help would be great!

Where you got that... "patch", there should be a description where to put the file. At least, there usually is. If not – Google. ;)

With the new version 7.2.0 of Crossover Games for Mac the game plays pretty well. In skirmish mode you can not create a profile but if you copy an already created profile to the profile directory in the bottle it will work. The frame rates are a little slow in the in-game movies and when there are a lot of units on the screen. I have not tested this on Linux so I don't know if it Mac related or Crossover related.

In 8.0 skirmish mode now works fine. I was able to create a new skirmish profile without issue. I have tested LoTR BFME using both Linux and Mac editions.