Some Questions about LOTR: Online (well 8 actually :P)

Darkwave · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:23

flibby said:
You could run near max yeah, but not at max. I can't run at max @ 1440x900 which is the resolution I play at and my specs are in my sig. The game does full support widescreen.

Runs maxed for me on the 8800GTS 640MB in 1680x1050.

Teaf · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:27

Ulfhedjinn said:
Runs maxed for me on the 8800GTS 640MB in 1680x1050.

With AA / AF ?

I can't run it at 1440x900 with max in everything, let alone adding any AA, but do use 16xAF.

Darkwave · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:28

flibby said:
With AA / AF ?

I can't run it at 1440x900 with max in everything, let alone adding any AA, but do use 16xAF.

4xAA and 16xAF, with vsync on but it does the 30/60 jumping quite a lot.

I set FakeFullscreen to false in the .ini file I should add, true is a performance hitter.

G-Man · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:29

mulpsmebeauty said:
I take it you don't recall the frustrating "a character with that name already exists" errors that used to stop you reconnecting in WoW for a few minutes after a boot though

Yes that was annoying but at least it was fixed eventually, lotro issue won't be fixed unless they rewrite how the game connects to the servers

tomanders91 · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:34

Edinho said:
The game is updated through the menu launcher dont know what you're doing.

erm, wtf? It didnt say anything, what option out of the 3 do you choose? HELP

Down1oader · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:34

Running it all on ultra settings 1920x1200, i disabled triple buffering though as that was eating 10fps, id rather play at 40fps over 30fps

Darkwave · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:36

Down1oader said:
Running it all on ultra settings 1920x1200, i disabled triple buffering though as that was eating 10fps, id rather play at 40fps over 30fps

Seems LOTRO definitely favours the 8800 Series over the HD2900 Series then.

tomanders91 · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:37

tomanders91 said:
erm, wtf? It didnt say anything, what option out of the 3 do you choose? HELP

edit: Done it :S, updating now lol.

Down1oader · 9 Jul 2007 at 17:43

i downloaded he 1.2 pach seperately using the official torrent file, installed that and then loaded up lotro. It asked me to get the latest version so i just did continue and it downloaded a small updated and unpacked over 3k high res textures (i chose to install high res textures)

Forgot to mention thats with 16AF and 2xAA

tomanders91 · 9 Jul 2007 at 18:08

still its going at about 20kb/s so it wont be playable till tommorow ffs.

Down1oader · 9 Jul 2007 at 18:11

the large update? Use a torrent for it off the official site... i got 700kbps using that

tomanders91 · 9 Jul 2007 at 18:30

i cant actually quite beleive this, i think im going to have to take it back because it just downloads at no more than 1kb/s, i ******** hate virgin media so much, they said theres nothing wrong with my line but everythings ****ing wrong with it :mad:

Darkwave · 9 Jul 2007 at 18:55

tomanders91 said:
i think im going to have to take it back because it just downloads at no more than 1kb/s

I hate to say it, because I do sympathise, but I think you'd be well outside your rights there.

Hedge · 9 Jul 2007 at 20:12

tomanders91 said:
i cant actually quite beleive this, i think im going to have to take it back because it just downloads at no more than 1kb/s, i ******** hate virgin media so much, they said theres nothing wrong with my line but everythings ****ing wrong with it

VM are a pain in the ass tbh, but my speeds were a lot faster than that!

tomanders91 · 9 Jul 2007 at 21:19

Ulfhedjinn said:
I hate to say it, because I do sympathise, but I think you'd be well outside your rights there.

Well id just have to replace it i suppose, im so ****ing angry though, what a waste of ****ing money.

Chaos · 9 Jul 2007 at 22:06

Is 1.2 the latest patch? Theres a patch on filefront dunno if it will be any use -

http://files.filefront.com/LotR+Online+v1.12+to+v1.2+Patch+(Europe+Only)/;7780880;/fileinfo.html

Damien. · 10 Jul 2007 at 14:01

tomanders91 said:
Well id just have to replace it i suppose, im so ****ing angry though, what a waste of ****ing money.

Exactly my thoughts. They wont take it back tho because youve registered the cdkey, so to them its useless.

tomanders91 · 10 Jul 2007 at 15:35

i got the update evuantlly, tried the torrent and got in in about 2 hours.

tomanders91 · 10 Jul 2007 at 16:37

ok just a question, i decided to be an Elf, and the snowy area i start in is kind of boring and theres no other online players about, is this normal? All the quests come under 'begginer' When do i get to the real stuff, with all the players and good quests to do.

Teaf · 10 Jul 2007 at 16:53

You are probably in the "newbie" zone. When you start the game, you aren't actually placed in the real game world, instead you are inside a seperate area of the world that only people starting the game are allowed in. When you exit this area after completeing all the newbie quests, you'll start seeing A LOT more people around. But really it's generally very quiet on most servers in Elf land, mainly because the "central" area of the world tends to revolve around Bree, everyone congragates there instead of other areas for some odd reason.

About the quests, you'll find they pick up from about level 10. Most of the starting quest are really just introductory quests to get you used to your character, especially since you are most likely in the "newbie" zone which as mentioned isn't a proper part of the real game world.