LORDS OF THE RING WAR OF THE RING 2003 - DDS with another header?

[UZ.-]

Hello everyone,

I’m kindly asking for your help. I have these textures in DDS format, but I’m unable to view them—they appear to be corrupted. However, the tool I used to extract them is specifically designed for this game’s original file format (.h2o).

From what I understand, the file header does not start like a standard DDS header, but instead uses a different one. Could anyone help me figure out how to properly read or visualize these DDS files?

I’m also attaching a RAR file containing all the DDS files.

I would really appreciate any guidance. Thank you very much in advance!

LORDS OF THE RING WOTG dds.rar

[DKDave]

4 hours ago, UZ.- said:

Hello everyone,

I’m kindly asking for your help. I have these textures in DDS format, but I’m unable to view them—they appear to be corrupted. However, the tool I used to extract them is specifically designed for this game’s original file format (.h2o).

From what I understand, the file header does not start like a standard DDS header, but instead uses a different one. Could anyone help me figure out how to properly read or visualize these DDS files?

I’m also attaching a RAR file containing all the DDS files.

I would really appreciate any guidance. Thank you very much in advance!

LORDS OF THE RING WOTG dds.rar 203.17 kB · 1 download

It's not extracting properly, slightly cutting off the DDS header.  It looks like the archive file format is different to previous versions  Try this QuickBMS script, which should decompress them correctly.

h2o.zip

[UZ.-]

Hello @DKDave, I honestly can’t believe how good you are! Thank you so much — it worked perfectly. How is it possible that you’re this great?

I should also mention that I’ve been trying for about a year to find some kind of tool or solution online, even digging through Archive.org, and had no success at all.

You’re amazing and incredibly smart — thanks again, I really, really appreciate it!!!