Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Windows, Mac, RTX, XBOX, PS2, GCN game

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Electronic Arts | Released 2003

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King video game again puts the fate of middle-earth in the hands of the gamer. In the last installment of the movie trilogy, destroy the Ring by casting it into the Crack of Doom, which frees Middle Earth from Dark Lord Sauron.

Return of the King's third person gameplay allows immersive action set in rich, interactive levels. The new game also features an all new co-op multiplayer mode which lets players form their own Fellowship and eight playable characters like Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimil, Sam and Frodo all played out by thier actual actors from the films, battle vicious boss monsters like Shelob and the final showdown with Dark Lord Sauron, all backed up by Academy Award winner Howard Shore.

RTX Remix

RTX Remix is a modding platform by NVIDIA, which allows modders to create stunning HD remasters of classic games (see all supported), with ray tracing and DLSS. Playing RTX mods requires a RT capable GPU. Learn more here.

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's compatibility with RTX Remix is:

Status: Partially Playable
RTX Remix Runtime Version: 0.4.1
Conf File: Download - updated 17d ago
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Assets: 0 assets - add new
Mods: 0 mods - add new
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Additional installation instructions:

Download RTX Remix 0.5.0 from Github.com
Put RTX Remix files to the same directory as ROTK.exe
Rename d3d8to9.dll to d3d9.dll

Issues:

Everything works well but there is no lighting (it needs to be placed manually by a mod)
To edit Remix you need to press Alt+Backspace, also it moves the in-game cursor so you will press things by accident

Notes:

There is .conf file that should fix most of the UI and makes Gandalf staff emit bright light to make this game playable without any additional mod
Discord Thread: Discord.com
Tested by Raharu 5/2/2024 (RTX Remix 0.5.0)

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RTX.conf for LOTR:ROTK Preview

May 2 2024 RTX.conf

This is the rtx.conf file necessary to run LOTR:ROTK with RTX Remix. Place it in the root directory where the Remix runtime is installed. This file sets...