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can anybody give me step by step instructions on how to download and install this game

Greetings @clawknight72

There are several good guides in the tips and tricks section. My personal recommendation is http://www.mcgillsociety.org/PyLotRO/index.html

You can check here:
http://www.allroundgeek.com/2009/05/play-lord-of-rings-online-on-mac-osx.html
there is an older guide and an updated one further down in the post.

clawknight72 wrote:

can anybody give me step by step instructions on how to download and
install this game

What happened when you used the installation instructions in the Tips & Tricks and the TIE (or C4P) file to do the installation?

iMac (7,1) 2.4 C2D (Radeon 2600) - a bit older now
Mac OSX 10.6.6 (current)
CXG 10.0.1

New install yesterday from the australian installer download (had this from before, tis a long download), installed from the install software program with no issues, just pointed to my setup file (which exists on my NAS) and everything went right to work, including installing PyLOTRO.

Patched overnight.

Loaded right up this morning, of course I ended up on a server where I had no characters, made a new one. Initially I had trouble with having to aim low to click on things. Reset the display, to the same settings, and that settled down.

Now, I just need to get the menu bar and dock to go away and I can try playing it.

I have had rougher times getting started, but I have nowhere near played long enough to help the random crashing discussion.

Interesting. I followed the "tips & tricks" sections advice on setting correct video size parameters in the .ini file in the documents folder, and it was indeed not correct initially.

I loaded back up, using a server with a character on it this time. Loading went well, but I still was having the pointing issues. Basically I had to point to the lower half of the hot bar buttons to make them function. So I tried the graphics options, re-selected the maximum resolution (which was already set correctly) and voila, the menu bar and dock re-appeared. My button issue gets corrected at the expense of having the entire lower row of buttons covered by the dock.

This game (before changes by both Turbine and the new CXG, I won't fault anyone in particular) used to run quite well, albeit at some video quality expense compared to bootcamp. Currently neither LOTRO nor STO run on the new CXG. (well STO might run, but it won't install for me to check it out.)

Michael Granberry wrote:

Interesting. I followed the "tips & tricks" sections advice on
setting correct video size parameters in the .ini file in the
documents folder, and it was indeed not correct initially.

This is "normal" in that the Turbine Client gets its video information from WINE which "makes it up."
I.e. WINE either does not or cannot obtain the information from the Graphics Card or OS.
This is a long standing, well known "issue." I haven't looked at WINE's discussions to determine if the authors of WINE believe this is "how things should be" or why the situation exists as it does.

Michael Granberry wrote:

I loaded back up, using a server with a character on it this time.
Loading went well, but I still was having the pointing issues.
Basically I had to point to the lower half of the hot bar buttons to
make them function. So I tried the graphics options, re-selected
the maximum resolution (which was already set correctly) and voila,
the menu bar and dock re-appeared. My button issue gets corrected
at the expense of having the entire lower row of buttons covered by
the dock.

By Dock, I assume you mean the OSX dock. I also assume you are trying to run "full screen."
There are two different solutions.

Go to "System Preferences" / Dock - at the bottom click, "Automatically hide and show the Dock - you could also position the dock at the left or right of the screen. This solution leaves about 1/8 of an inch where the cursor will trigger the dock.

The second solution is to use windowed mode. Then drag the window to be as much of the screen as you want. This leaves the Mac Menu bar at the top of the screen. I run with my screen occupying all bout about 1/4 of an inch top and left with "an icon width" at the right, where I keep Ventrillo and other similar stuff.

iMac Intel - 2007 - 24 inch (diagonal) screen
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT - 1920x1200 - 32-Bit Color
VRAM (Total): 256 MB

pretty much the only problem i have is when i agree to the terms and conditions and the installer starts but it stops and does not move and also some of the words are backwards

thats why im hoping that someone gives me step by step instructions

clawknight72 wrote:

pretty much the only problem i have is when i agree to the terms and
conditions and the installer starts but it stops and does not move
and also some of the words are backwards

1- Have you read the rest of this thread, including the first reply by Shane Knysh posted about 14 minutes after your original query?

2- Have you read the LOTRO CXG "Tips & Tricks" section -- the tab at the top of the page...
A) Installation Help
B) GEtting LOTRO F2P (NA Servers)
or
C) Install LotRO (EU Servers)
D) Complete Step-by-step installation instructions;

3- It is clear from your description above that you are trying to use the Turbine Installer... which all of the instructions state WILL NOT WORK. Please read the instructions in the Tips & Tricks section for details.

The installation process is quite simple -- however you do need a full copy of the game to install (about 9GB). You CAN NOT use the installer download from the Turbine LOTRO.com website.

I'm just going to add that after upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard, I experienced an odd (yet kinda cool) effect in LotRO. On the loading screen just before the character chooser screen, all I saw was a giant, screen-filling image of the glowing Ring (which is what was kinda cool, aside from the graininess). Then the screen went black when it went to the character chooser screen. Upgrading CXG to 10.1.2 fixed the problem (I did a totally clean install of CXG, so I have no idea if just upgrading the app itself will achieve the same result). But since I did do a clean install of 10.1.2, my experience fits in the current thread. I followed no "secret formula," just the directions, to the letter, in "Tips & Tricks."

Following the instructions in the second post, everything goes well until the game downloader launches and tries to download the hi-res client.

For some reason that is erring out with "Transfer was aborted. Trying to restart..." and never changes. I was able to download the standard version previously, but I'm not sure how to connect the PyLotRO to those files.

Any ideas on any of this?

Was able to get the standard install to work after moving into the bottle that was prepared from the crosstie install and telling PyLotr where the files were.

Louis Duhon wrote:

Following the instructions in the second post, everything goes well
until the game downloader launches and tries to download the hi-res
client.

For some reason that is erring out with "[i]Transfer was aborted.
Trying to restart...[/i]" and never changes. I was able to download
the standard version previously, but I'm not sure how to connect the
PyLotRO to those files.

Assuming that you used the CrossTie installer, (and I believe, since June 2011, the Turbine Installers as well), there is no difference between "Hi-res" and "standard" clients. In my experience, once you have download the client and patched it and then gone into the game and set "Ultra/Very/High - resolution" settings, the client will "auto patch," telling you that you need to restart the client to get high-resolution information.

The "transfer aborted" issue usually has to do with communications problems. The PMB is a "Torrent" style downloader and is susceptible to both communications errors and data corruption from the sources. This is another way of saying, the data being downloaded does not necessarily come from Turbine, but rather from other LOTRO players (on PCs) who have not disabled PMB AFTER they have installed the game.

Louis Duhon wrote:

Was able to get the standard install to work after moving into the
bottle that was prepared from the crosstie install and telling
PyLotr where the files were.

Sounds like you found the instructions on how to configure PyLotRO. :)