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Revision as of 18:38, 4 December 2022
Developers | |
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EA Redwood Shores | |
macOS (OS X) | Beenox Shift |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 31, 2003 |
macOS (OS X) | March 30, 2004 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 78 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Hack and slash, RPG |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Middle-earth |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
- The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- Demo
- The Windows version has both a CD-ROM and a DVD-ROM release, the DVD edition features additional bonus content.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\<Localized LOTR Return of the King Data>\ROTK.ini |
macOS (OS X) |
- Folder
LOTR Return of the King Data
may be named differently, based on the system language.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\<Localized LOTR Return of the King Data>\ |
macOS (OS X) |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. FMVs & menu backgrounds are not in 4K. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Use dgVoodoo2. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Use dgVoodoo2. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Frame rate is capped at 62 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
Widescreen fix[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Windowed
Use DxWnd[citation needed] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Extreme mouse declaration applied to a cursor. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | Triggers not recognized. | |
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Shown as "3D" sound. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | No option to disable it. | |
EAX support | EAX 3.0 | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | Japan only. | |||
Korean | Korea only. | |||
Spanish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Swedish | ||||
German | ||||
Russian | Fan translation by «ENPY Studio/Spirit Team» |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 2 | Co-op Requires a controller. |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D User created game profile, requires D3D8to9 wrapper, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | ||||
macOS (OS X) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98, 2000, ME, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 700 MHz AMD Athlon 700 MHz |
Intel Pentium 4 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2.0 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 64 MB of VRAM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.2.6 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC 74xx PowerPC G4 |
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System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 3D accelerator 32 MB of VRAM |
Notes
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16