How do you deal with the bug where all people die after 5 minutes in Battle for Middle Earth 1?

Question

I'm owning the game Battle for Middle Earth lotr and have completed quite a few missions. Then I installed a few demos such as Trine and a few others. BFME stopped launching now.

So I uninstalled the other games and had to reinstall BFME. Now the game launches fine but after 5 minutes of play everyone dies. I read somewhere that this is on pirated games but I have the @#$ing discs.

Does anyone know how we can get past this problem?

Answer

Oh Actually I got this problem solved. I figured the problem must be due to securom because I think that is what was responsible for the problems. So here is what worked:

1. Uninstall lotr
2. Uninstall securom using the uninstaller from their website
3. Reinstall lotr
4. At ease :)

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