Battle for Middle-Earth 2 - Glitches with Shadows and Textures

[Vraccasil]

I have problems with flickering textures, textures not loading in and bugs with the lighting engine and shadows in Battle for Middle-Earth 2, Rise of the Witch-King (AotR Mod).

Depending on the graphical settings ingame I experience either:

• next to no problems at all (ultra high settings)
• lots of flickering textures, textures not loading in, bugging shadows etc. (lower graphical settings)

Because the Sage-Engine is fairly outdated and can not keep up with the game (especially with more players and lots going on) it is not possible to just always crank the settings to the max to not experience any problems with glitches and stuff.

Maybe somebody here can figure out why this happens.

Software information

Battle for Middle-Earth 2, Rise of the Witch-King (AotR 8.3.1 Mod)

System information

• GPU: GTX 1080ti
• Driver: 566.36
• DXVK version: 2.5.2

Here you can see big black rectangles where the smoke vfx should be (minor problem for me)

The models should be looking like this (Ultra settings ingame):

I am glad for any help!

[K0bin]

Try the latest master version, this is probably already fixed.

[Vraccasil]

I am using version 2.5.2 - this is the latest version afaik?!

[K0bin]

That's the latest release. The latest development version is https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/actions/runs/12612108394

[Vraccasil]

Could you explain where exactly do I get the .dll I need from the link you shared? You might have to explain it for dummies. On first glance the folder structure seems different than what I downloaded as "release-version".

[Blisto91]

The text dxvk-master-9a244e8951ca955eba6898b82a6a36d01db0728ddownloads a archive that you use like a regular release. The dll you need for this game is in x32 and the rest can be ignored