LOTRO Free Trial and anyone still play?

saguy · 6 Jan 2009 at 14:57

Gamer_Dude said:
I tried the trial quite a few times now. It seemed like a decent game graphical and gameplay wise, however the game for me hitched like mad and made it really unplayable.

The FPS was good so I don't understand why it hitched so bad.

I think with LOTRO, hitching is quite a common problem, I tried everything people suggested and it didn't fix the hitching, so I uninstalled it.

I think it something that they improved so I do not know the last time you tried. I have had hitching on previous systems as the game is needs loads of video and system memory. Luckily I no longer have any hitching even in Bree.

I have had one problem on my new build that was easy enough to sort out and that was severe frame skipping which often gets confused with hitching. This was easily sorted out by setting a frame rate cap in the config file.

Nzyme · 6 Jan 2009 at 15:21

The problem was my browser getting an error due to the file size

SoGi · 6 Jan 2009 at 15:44

Nzyme said:
The problem was my browser getting an error due to the file size

Was it stoping at 2gb? If so this is the error my dad had but for some reason it downloaded on mine and I use the same browser (ff) and we are on same network.

Sorry I can't be any help as to how to fix it though.

Nzyme · 6 Jan 2009 at 15:54

it was chrome, it just gave an error saying too big. downloading on firefox now, 19% done already

Gypo · 6 Jan 2009 at 15:54

Having played Lotro since it's release, and having also played wow for a period of time, i can safely say that i will never EVER go back and play wow again.

The old content was becoming quite stale but Moria has refreshed the game and it has now rediscovered the fun factor that surrounded it in it's launch year. The fun has only just started anyway, once Lorien get's expanded and we are out in the open it's just a matter of time before Turbine start rolling out new area's and updates....normally every 3 months for an update.

jas72 · 6 Jan 2009 at 16:03

I installed it just before christmas after the 13 gig download can't say that I like it much to each his own.

2nd time I've tried it and it just doesn't grip me.

Perhap's it's because twice I have choosen dwarves. Perhaps another group would be better .... hobbits for example.

L0new0lf · 6 Jan 2009 at 16:05

Gypo said:
Having played Lotro since it's release, and having also played wow for a period of time, i can safely say that i will never EVER go back and play wow again.

The old content was becoming quite stale but Moria has refreshed the game and it has now rediscovered the fun factor that surrounded it in it's launch year. The fun has only just started anyway, once Lorien get's expanded and we are out in the open it's just a matter of time before Turbine start rolling out new area's and updates....normally every 3 months for an update.

Exactly, the land of Middle Earth is still a long way from been fully realised, there is a wealth of free and paid content to come.

There is a very active community and most of the servers are well populated so finding Fellowships/Kinships is easy.

This was my first serious MMORPG and one that I am still enjoying.

saguy · 6 Jan 2009 at 16:28

jas72 said:
I installed it just before christmas after the 13 gig download can't say that I like it much to each his own.

2nd time I've tried it and it just doesn't grip me.

Perhap's it's because twice I have choosen dwarves. Perhaps another group would be better .... hobbits for example.

You have a thing for the little people.

adamibbo · 6 Jan 2009 at 21:24

Teki187 said:
Been thinking about checking out LOTRO, haven't touched it since beta so i thought it might be a good time to see were its at.

Is the trial the full graphics edition or is it the dumbed down version?

Also does anyone here still play?

If so could someone help me with a class comparison between wow's chars and LOTRO's?

Thanks.

The new expansion has brought many former players back into the game, the mines are amazing. The two new classes are fun to play aswell and offer something diffferent.

Nzyme · 7 Jan 2009 at 18:56

Downloaded all the trial stuff and go to play and get a 'cannot patch' error message

Tom91 · 7 Jan 2009 at 19:21

Nzyme said:
Downloaded all the trial stuff and go to play and get a 'cannot patch' error message

Clear the cache from your internet browsers. All of the browsers you have on your PC.

Then restart the client and it should start to download the patch.

howthe · 11 Jan 2009 at 21:43

Never mind, fixed it!

byron_hinson · 11 Jan 2009 at 21:49

Play it loads myself - though less so recently with the shadow bug introduced in recent GeForce drivers. Still find it the best online title around.

Raumarik · 11 Jan 2009 at 23:58

Reading this has encouraged me to reinstall the game. Not played in ages though, poor burglar (didn't have any alts) probably feels abandoned!

adamibbo · 12 Jan 2009 at 14:05

byron_hinson said:
Play it loads myself - though less so recently with the shadow bug introduced in recent GeForce drivers. Still find it the best online title around.

by far the best mmo game i have played

Leodido · 13 Jan 2009 at 07:04

Anyone has a small Kinship on Laurelin that I may join, so I can ask noob question all day and have a guild chat ?

I'm a friendly swiss!

eekfek · 13 Jan 2009 at 08:37

Leodido said:
Anyone has a small Kinship on Laurelin that I may join, so I can ask noob question all day and have a guild chat ?

I'm a friendly swiss!

I've recently moved my main characters over to Laurelin from Snowbourn, along with a few mates ... whats your ingame name ? i'll get in touch with you and help out with any questions you might have

Leodido · 13 Jan 2009 at 09:14

name is Leodeth

thanks

Alex53 · 13 Jan 2009 at 09:29

I play on Eldar, and on weekends its easy enough to find fellowships, especially if you are doing the book quests rather than stand-alone ones.

Best thing though is to get yourself into a kinship. My best gaming has been fellowing with the alts of experienced kin members, and then its just a case of 'where are we going today?', rather than waiting for a fellowship to form.

The community itself is the best I've experienced. Theres little selfishness and practically no spamming.

drunkenmaster · 13 Jan 2009 at 09:49

jas72 said:
I installed it just before christmas after the 13 gig download can't say that I like it much to each his own.

2nd time I've tried it and it just doesn't grip me.

Perhap's it's because twice I have choosen dwarves. Perhaps another group would be better .... hobbits for example.

What level did you get up to, for me, the Dwarf/Elf starting area, both intro area and ered luin i think it is, can't remember off the top of my head, is the worst area in the game pretty much. its just, the intro area itself is pretty boring and ered luin where you can level up to 10-14 maybe is horribly badly spread out with far too many "kill x spider" style missions but on totally the opposite end of the map. You can probably level up twice as fast in bree or the shire. Remember after the very first intro section(where you get to lvl 6ish) you can fast travel to "start" in any of the main area's you like which I would highly recommend.

Personally I never liked AOC graphically, not sure what it was, just felt like, weird design and the outside area's, admittedly not far into the game were indeed all very narrow and weird. I think Lotro at launch was incredibly polished, probably by far the smoothest MMO release. Basically in beta it was "almost" as good as it is today. Sure there are a few quest bugs and getting stuck here and there in instances, that happens in any game. But the game world, smoothness, the graphics haven't changed much at all, the design the stability(except a nvidia mem leak in beta/launch, horrible early 64bit nvidia drivers).