Lord of the Rings: War in the North

[H8Cr1me]

Multi-Monitor resolutions aren't showing up in the game menu and I don't see a config file anywhere. Anyone had any luck getting this game to work with miltiple monitors?

[thales100]

Looks simply fantatsic helifax :twothumb , thanks a lot for posting this solution, have you checked my PM ? Cheers.

[helifax]

Hi,

Yes! Unfortunately I don't know why I cannot upload the archive :( it just saying is uploading and than no attachment:( So I upload it temporarly to MegaUpload:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0PW3YKEW
In the future I will look how to make it permanent here!

Best Regards,
Helifax


PS: I know is not good as other fixes around here...but I have to start from somewhere:)) so please excuse me for my "long (not optimal )" fix.

[helifax]

Hello,

Yes after meddling for a couple of days with the game (because it is coop and I can play it with my wife...and me ofc needing 3D Vision Surround) I managed to fix the game to an amount that lets you to actually play the game... and the game looks absolutely FABULOUS in 3D Surround!!!!!

Before a tell you my "un-orthodox " fix I will let you have some screenshot:















YES you saw correctly that some screenshots have a wrong aspect ratio. We will get to that in a second, in the solution part!

And now the technical part
- The game uses the very old "Dark Alliance Engine[1]" engine which is Vert- (almost 12 years old) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Alliance_Engine
- There is no multi monitor resolution available from the ingame menu.
- There are no config files to tweak that allows you multi-monitor configs.
- Since looks like a console port probably we can understand the limited menu and other things console specific.
- DirectX 9 title.

The fixed is based on the ALI123 (THK) or some Chinese EXE fix so it might work or not on the STEAM version, etc. (I personally don't try memory editing on steam games, because I don't want to loose my steam account with more than 150 games...)


The fix:

Files included:
- Cheat Engine table.
- Toggle rescale trainer. (for the menu, inventory navigation). This trainer is recommended for the following resolution: 5040x1050(Sorry but I cannot go higher than this resolution).


1. Load the table in Cheat Engine.
2. Start the game and get to the main menu ( The one that shows Lord of the Rings.etc... Press Start button, etc...)
3. ALT+TAB to cheat engine and attach it to the game.
4. Freeze the "Width & Height" values. Insert your resolution.
5. In the "Hud rescale" enter your Aspect ratio and lock the value (This will correctly rescale your health, mana & energy bars to the middle screen )
6. The last value leave it unchanged.
7. Load the provided trainer.
8. ALT+TAB to the game and press ENTER. You will now be in the "Party selection dialog". If everything went OK you will have the image spanned on 3 monitors and everything looks zoomed.
9. Press the key "1" on your keyboard. It will rescale the whole hud elements to fit the screen (while the aspect ratio will be messed up).
10. Start a game
11. ALT+TAB to cheat engine again & go to "memory view"
12. Select the Auto Assembly (CTRL+A) and paste the following code:

Code: Select all

alloc(newmem,2048) //2kb should be enough

   label(returnhere)

   label(originalcode)

   label(exit)

   

   newmem:

   mov [eax+08],40060A92 //120 degrees field of view

   fstp dword ptr [eax+10]

   fld dword ptr [ecx+2C]

   originalcode:

   exit:

   jmp returnhere

   "witn.exe"+25C986:

   jmp newmem

   nop

   returnhere:

13. Hit execute and close memory view.
14. ALT+TAB to game. If everything went OK you will have a new field of view (while the aspect ratio is still messed up)
15. Press the "2" key on your keyboard to revert to a correct aspect ratio.
16. Play the game.

I chose to use the trainer to toggle between fit the screen (stretched image) and correct aspect ratio with VERT- thing, because you will need it to navigate menus, dialogues and inventory.

17. After this use the "1" key to scale the whole image to fit the screen( for menus and inventory) and "2" to actually play the game.

[thales100]

I'll create a DR tomorrow, thx again helifax. 8)

[thales100]

Detailed Report created and promoted to front page, thanks a lot to helifx for the multi-mon solution, plus for providing all the screenshots that were used in the DR. :twothumb

[Ceogar]

Great work! Lemme know if your in gothenburg and i will buy you a cupcake!

[landrass]

Thanks for multimon solution!I have a problem when i start 3d vision screen zoom in how to fix this?

[helifax]

I had no problems running the game in 3D surround or 2D surround... make sure the fix is actually working;))
The main menu is zoomed in (background) I know. Didn't had the time to fix that also.

[Funkengreuven]

Sorry to ask such a detailed question, but I've tried for an hour to figure this out, but not having any luck. Can you please, please explain in a little more deatil how you do this? I have some questions below if you have time to answer them... Thanks!!!

1. Load the table in Cheat Engine.
2. Start the game and get to the main menu ( The one that shows Lord of the Rings.etc... Press Start button, etc...)
3. ALT+TAB to cheat engine and attach it to the game.
- I see where you can select the process, but is this what you mean by "attach it to the game?"

4. Freeze the "Width & Height" values. Insert your resolution.
- What do your mean "freeze" the values? I see where I can put "X" mark beside these lines, but how do I freeze them & then enter the W & H values?

5. In the "Hud rescale" enter your Aspect ratio and lock the value (This will correctly rescale your health, mana & energy bars to the middle screen )
- I see the hud rescale line just below H & W lines, but are you actually enetering a value to that line? Like right click & it asks you for a value? How do you put in 16:9? Where are the W/H/Ratio values eneterd?

6. The last value leave it unchanged.
7. Load the provided trainer.
- How do you do this?

8. ALT+TAB to the game and press ENTER. You will now be in the "Party selection dialog". If everything went OK you will have the image spanned on 3 monitors and everything looks zoomed.
9. Press the key "1" on your keyboard. It will rescale the whole hud elements to fit the screen (while the aspect ratio will be messed up).
10. Start a game
11. ALT+TAB to cheat engine again & go to "memory view"
12. Select the Auto Assembly (CTRL+A) and paste the following code:
Code:
alloc(newmem,2048) //2kb should be enough
label(returnhere)
label(originalcode)
label(exit)

newmem:
mov [eax+08],40060A92 //120 degrees field of view
fstp dword ptr [eax+10]
fld dword ptr [ecx+2C]
originalcode:
exit:
jmp returnhere
"witn.exe"+25C986:
jmp newmem
nop
returnhere:

13. Hit execute and close memory view.
14. ALT+TAB to game. If everything went OK you will have a new field of view (while the aspect ratio is still messed up)
15. Press the "2" key on your keyboard to revert to a correct aspect ratio.
16. Play the game.
I chose to use the trainer to toggle between fit the screen (stretched image) and correct aspect ratio with VERT- thing, because you will need it to navigate menus, dialogues and inventory.
17. After this use the "1" key to scale the whole image to fit the screen( for menus and inventory) and "2" to actually play the game.


I think I can get the rest....

[Westernesse]

Hmm, didn't see this when I played it earlier this summer. Awesome game in 3 player btw, one of the best co-op games I've played in a while after borderlands 4 player and magica. I had to switch 1 monitor in landscape and load the game then setup my 3x1 eyefinity portrait, but still play the game in 1920x1080 windowed mode. I might try this as we are looking at doing a second play through near the end of the year.