The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002)

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⤏ Go to series page
The Hobbit	1982
The Fellowship of the Ring	1985
The Shadows of Mordor	1987
J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth	1988
The Crack of Doom	1989
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I	1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan	1990
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II	1992
The Fellowship of the Ring (2002)	2002
The Return of the King	2003
War of the Ring	2003
The Hobbit (2003)	2003
The Battle for Middle-earth (series)
The Lord of the Rings Online	2007
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest	2009
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North	2011
Lego Middle-earth (series)
Guardians of Middle-earth	2012
Middle-earth: Shadow (series)
Journeys in Middle-earth	2019
The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game	2019
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum	2023
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria	2023

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 4 DRM

This game is not available digitally.

Patch 1.1 (US copy only) can be downloaded here

System	Location
Windows

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\^{[Note 1]}

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Change game aspect ratio
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Run `Fellowship.exe` with `-setup` command line argument and tick `Windowed Mode`
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		VSync does not work on Windows 10
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Causes issues during combats, dialogues and cutscenes. Cursor mouse in menus is broken over 75 FPS. See High frame rate issues.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Controller types

Use 3D-Analyze^{[citation needed]}

Notes

If the black screen still occurs, try checking force windowed mode.

The Save batch file! button will create a .BAT shortcut for the game.

Limit the Frame rate to 60 FPS^{[citation needed]}

Notes

When running the game from 3D Analyze; it's necessary to use 3rd party SW like Bandicam or RivaTuner.
Nvidia FPS limiter won't work.

Set the refresh rate to 60hz^{[citation needed]}

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution. `Note:` Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 600 MHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB
Video card (GPU)	Single-pass, multi-texture, and hardware T&L support 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	Nvidia GeForce 4 64 MB of VRAM

↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).