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The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring

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The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring cover
Developers
Liquid Entertainment
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Release dates
Windows November 8, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 67
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Free-roaming camera
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Art styles Stylized
Themes Fantasy
Series Middle-earth
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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

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and free-roaming camera RTS game in the Middle-earth series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM 4 DRM
Windows
A free demo version is available from SierraHelp.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is v1.01.0011, available from Patches-Scrolls.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Rings.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Video

General options.
General options.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 4:3 resolutions up to 1600x1200 can be selected; use the widescreen fix to enable widescreen resolutions.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
The FPS cap is tied to the monitor's refresh rate even with Vsync forced off on AMD cards; works fine with Nvidia.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, Sound Effects and Dialogue.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 7175
UDP 6500, 13139
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Game does not save progress or score

Run the game in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2 and as administrator.[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
AMD Athlon 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Hardware T&L support
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).

References