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Hello guys

my installation stopped at this step and thats it. Nothing else happened even after half an hour.

Did anyone faced same issue?

Thanks
smea

This happens sometimes when installing using LOTRO's Crosstie, Crossover's fully automated method of installing a Windows application. Follow the instructions I provide in this thread here on the official LOTRO forums:
https://forums.lotro.com/index.php?threads/mac-installing-lotro-on-a-mac-using-crossover-short-version.74/

Hi John,

Thanks for linking to that post! Are .NET and Microsoft Visual C++ no longer needed for LOTRO? If not, I can update the official recipe :)

Best,
Meredith

Meredith, Microsoft Visual C++ is required, but the lotrolive.exe installer installs what it needs if the required components are not already present in the bottle. (The Steam version of the LOTRO installer DOES NOT do so, which is why it is so important to use lotrolive.exe as downloaded from https://www.lotro.com/guides/lotro-download-en?locale=en rather than Steam.)

As far as I know, the .NET framework is NOT required. Here is the "Installed Software" list of my LOTRO bottle which I created using the method I described in that linked thread, not the Crosstie:
Crossover HTML engine
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 (8.0) SP1 Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)
Wine Mono
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (10.0) Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)
Microsoft Rich Edit 4.1 (Msftedit.dll)
msls31
Microsoft Rich Edit 2.0
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 x86 Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)

By the way, it would be really helpful if the contents of the "Installed Software" list were selectable for easy copy/paste operations!

If the Crosstie could be updated to create a Windows 10 64-bit bottle instead of a Windows 7 64-bit bottle, and to begin by installing "DirectX for Modern Games" before beginning the LOTRO installation from lotrolive.exe, and to set DXVK to ENABLED with all other "bottle settings" DISABLED; that would make the Crosstie really useful for LOTRO players and save me a lot of time helping people on SSG's LOTRO forum who run into trouble because the Crosstie doesn't do those things for them.

Thanks for jumping into this thread!

John M. Hammer wrote:

Meredith, Microsoft Visual C++ is required, but the lotrolive.exe installer installs what it needs if the required components are not already present in the bottle. (The Steam version of the LOTRO installer DOES NOT do so, which is why it is so important to use lotrolive.exe as downloaded from https://www.lotro.com/guides/lotro-download-en?locale=en rather than Steam.)

As far as I know, the .NET framework is NOT required. Here is the "Installed Software" list of my LOTRO bottle which I created using the method I described in that linked thread, not the Crosstie:
Crossover HTML engine
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 (8.0) SP1 Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)
Wine Mono
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (10.0) Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)
Microsoft Rich Edit 4.1 (Msftedit.dll)
msls31
Microsoft Rich Edit 2.0
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 x86 Redistributable (more but cannot be read on my screen)

By the way, it would be really helpful if the contents of the "Installed Software" list were selectable for easy copy/paste operations!

If the Crosstie could be updated to create a Windows 10 64-bit bottle instead of a Windows 7 64-bit bottle, and to begin by installing "DirectX for Modern Games" before beginning the LOTRO installation from lotrolive.exe, and to set DXVK to ENABLED with all other "bottle settings" DISABLED; that would make the Crosstie really useful for LOTRO players and save me a lot of time helping people on SSG's LOTRO forum who run into trouble because the Crosstie doesn't do those things for them.

Thanks for jumping into this thread!

Hi John,

Apologies, I lost track of this. I updated the CrossTie accordingly, it should go live tomorrow :)

Best,
Meredith

Thank you, Meredith!