Lord of the Rings Online Forum

Hi there,
After recent moving of LotRO to F2P I started to play it.
Installation with C4P - 100% perfect! Grats for that!

On medium settings I found the game little choppy so I've added DirectDrawRenderer=opengl to the registry. I think it has added me at least 5-10FPS. Please try it and post your opinions. Maybe it should be addet to C4P file also.

PS. Is there any option/addon to show current FPS and ping in LotRO?

Oskar Gargas wrote:

PS. Is there any option/addon to show current FPS and ping in LotRO?

Yes... Ctl-F will display an FPS counter on your screen.

You can use Ctl-\ to re-position the screen elements, especially the FPS counter,
to someplace more visible.

Oskar Gargas wrote:

On medium settings I found the game little choppy so I've added
DirectDrawRenderer=opengl to the registry. I think it has added me at least
5-10FPS. Please try it and post your opinions.

Can you give some more detail.... how/where did you add it to the registry?
I assume you created the "Direct..." entry, as I am not finding one existent... or I'm just looking in the wrong place.

The full registry path should be:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D

then create a string for DirectDrawRenderer and set the value to opengl

Taken from http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

I ran with the DirectDrawRendering set to opengl for about 6 hours last evening with no problems.
And, yes, FPS does seem to be increased (ctl-f to display the FPS counter.)

I have been gradually increasing the graphics settings. (They are currently all over the place... i.e. custom)

Vertex Shader Support was set to "none".
Allow Pixel Shader was ticked.

Today, I'll add "Hardware" for the Vertex Shader Support.