Lords of the Realm II

NeonSpyder

<div class="IPBDescription">(Older then Depot)</div>So holy crap, lords of the realm 2, best turn based medieval rpg, or best turn based medieval rpg <b>ever?</b>

The problem is, after having recently discovered my poor under appreciated LOTR2 disc and blowing the dust from its glorious surface, I discover after a time spent installing and fiddling that the game has decided not to work.

Now I know that many of you are wizards in one respect or another, technical or otherwise. So I was hoping one of you might help determine the cause for this sad state of affairs.

The cd works fine and seems to install the game correctly, but when running it the game seems to be under the impression that I do not have the cd in the drive, and insists that I rectify the situation before allowing me access to the precious yet antiquated singleplayer experience.

Now, after some internet-spelunking I have found many many many people with the same problem as I, yet no solution that has been discovered through my internet adventures has brought me a solution.

Some people have suggested that the game does not recognize a cdrom drive if it is a letter other then D, so I placed a line in the game config file that goes something along the lines of 'CdRomDrives=4' which is supposed to tell the game to look in the fourth drive for the cd, but this did not work.

Basically I am wondering if any of you have attempted to get this game to run on a windows XP system successfully. If I run it in compatibility mode for windows 95 or not the game opens the start menu fine but continues to refuse to acknowledge the existence of my CD, much to my utter disappointment.

So! Discuss the game, possible causes of this problem and/or solutions, but most importantly, enjoy yourselves at my expense.

Testament

crax

NeonSpyder

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Tried. The only one I could find (which was the same one, linked across several sites) did not work and other people have reported the same.

Skyrage

Hmm, I have the CD as well and all - but it was years since I played. Do you know if it could be played in Dos cause then all you have to do is use DosBOX.

NeonSpyder

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Hmmm, it is a dos game as well as windows so.. I'll give it a shot using dosbox. Results pending.

NeonSpyder

Unless there is a separate executable or something to get the game to run via Dos, it does not appear to work through dosbox, as DB claims that the lords2.exe file "Cannot be run in DOS mode"

Forgive me if I am somewhat rusty in the ways of the mighty dos, as I haven't really used it since 94 or so... The win executable to run the game should be the same one you would use in DOS, aye?

pSyk0mAn

I played the first part of this series and it rocked.
Dunno about the 2nd part though, but I found it in the "store" and I'm going to test it.
The "store" readme says the following:

"If you're attempting to run on XP, you'll need to set compatibility mode to win95 and 256 colours. If you're still getting errors like "CD not found" open up the L2.ini file in your LotR directory. It may be blank. Make sure it says something like this:
[Config]
CDDrive=F
WindowsDir=C:\WINDOWS\

Where F is the virtual drive you installed/mounted the ISO on. "

Hope it works for you and will work for me <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

NeonSpyder

Yeah done that, but still no dice.

Maybe it just hates me. That is most likely what this is, eternal digital hate.

Jimmeh

Get LOTR III?

NeonSpyder

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Or I could get aids. Because I hear that is just as much fun.

Abra

I don't think <i>getting</i> AIDS is unpleasant, having it though, that's bad.

NeonSpyder

While I agree vigorously with you Abra, I must confess that my original intent was to dismiss LOTR3 as utter tripe, painful to play and disgusting to watch while LOTR2 was a shining beacon of all that is good and right in game design.

Unfortunately, I am still unable to access my precious Lords2.

FORTUNATELY I found the game Rome: Total War, which is like a spiritual successor to Lords2 and is in every way awesome and I will now not seek to play Lords2 anymore because my turn based empire building / real time epic war strategy game urges have been filled, exceeded and I am now slave to them and this game.

Depot

Yay, I get my own topic! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />