jcoester / bfme-resfix

All-in-One Tool for "The Battle for Middle Earth" Anthology, including High Resolution Widescreen and Patch support on modern Windows OS

BFME-ResFix

All-in-One Tool for "The Battle for Middle Earth" Anthology

Restoring the 20-year-old games to their former glory

Features:

• Run the games on Windows 7, 8, 10 & 11
• Supports all official game languages
• Includes the latest official game patches
• Enables Widescreen resolutions up to 4K or higher
• Retains the original HUD, Zoom, and Fog

How to use

Download here

Click the image to watch the Video Demo

Result

Original vs. BFME-ResFix Modded

Features

1. Retains the original HUD

2. Retains the original Zoom

3. Retains the original Fog

4. Enables Widescreen resolutions up to 4K or higher

Technical Info

High-Resolution scaling

Some in-game fonts do not scale well on High DPI displays. bfme-resfix uses the Windows Display Scaling factor and recommends the most appropriate resolution for the screen. Example: On a 3840 x 2160 screen with 200% scaling, 1920 x 1080 is recommended. Choosing a higher resolution like 2560 x 1440 can work depending on user preference, screen size and viewing distance.

Retaining Zoom & Fog

To match the original Zoom level, the following Camera Angle and Height Multiplier are applied to each map's original heights. The same values are used to retain the original Fog level. Each Aspect Ratio requires its respective Maps.big-file to match the original look.

Aspect Ratio	Camera Angle	Height Multiplier	Min. Height	Max. Height
4:3	37.5°	1,000	120	300
16:9	35°	1,333	160	400
21:9	32.5°	1,750	210	525
32:9 [1]	30°	2,667	320	800

[1] Engine breaks with 32:9 settings, displaying a black curtain at max. height 800. Reducing the height would effectively decrease the horizontal FOV compared to other aspect ratios, hence it is not advised.

Maps.big direct downloads

Retaining HUD

The HUD mods used by bfme-resfix are

Game	Link
BFME1	BFME1 Widescreen APT Fix
BFME2	BfMe II / RotWk Widescreen UI Mod (alpha)
ROTWK	BfMe II / RotWk Widescreen UI Mod (alpha)

Self-creating the Executable

1. Clone this repo: https://github.com/jcoester/bfme-resfix.git
2. In IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition or similar: Open project
3. In IntelliJ: Build > Build Artifacts... > bfme-resfix:jar > Build
4. In Launch4j: Open .\launch4j\config.xml
5. In Launch4j Basic & Splash tab: Adjust paths to your system
6. In Launch4j: Build wrapper by clicking the settings wheel icon
7. Done!