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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest cover
Developers
Pandemic Studios
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Zero
Release dates
Windows January 9, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 57
IGDB 60
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Art styles Realistic
Themes Fantasy
Series The Lord of the Rings
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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest on Wikipedia
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

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action game in the The Lord of the Rings series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Requires online activation
CD key
Can only be used x times
SecuROM 7 and SecuROM PA DRM, unknown machine limit. A De-Authorization Tool is available.
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Windows
The PC version lacks both pieces of DLC for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions.
If the game refuses to install from the disc and hangs during setup, try transferring the files to the PC and install it using the files on the PC.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Invalidate the corresponding files[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Video\logo\
  2. Delete, move or rename ea.bik, newline.bik, pandemic.bik, and tolkien.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Lord of the Rings - Conquest\pc.ini

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Lord of the Rings - Conquest\<user-id>_Save.dat

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
16:10 is cropped 16:9
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
4K resolution only supports up to 100hz. Any resolution that is above your native montior resolution will have a black box can only be fixed by lowering resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
The only option is to enable the 'Far Camera'.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Can be disabled in the video settings menu.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Control settings.
Control settings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
16
Online play
16 CNQreboot hosts a server than can be accessed with Radmin VPN.[2]

Connection types

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Game starts to a black screen

Install the game to a FAT32 drive. Virtual drives work.[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP)
1.5 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support


References

  1. Verified by User:Gryfu on 2024-02-11
  2. CNQReboot Server Move - last accessed on 2021-03-01