Lord of the Rings Online Forum

I've noticed many people getting this game to work without any issues, but for the life of me I don't seem to be getting anywhere.

I currently run Linux Mint 9 - 64bit and initially had issues with the game randomly freezing, both via crossover games and wine 1.2. So for a test I installed Guild Wars which I've working previously when testing linux. But with this game at the moment I just got major gfx corruption. So I thought I would try Ubuntu as LM9 was based off that and again get exactly the same issue.

So tonight I reinstalled LM9 from scratch, formatting my /home drive so had nothing that could conflict. I then downloaded the ATI drivers directly from ATI website and installed them instead of clicking the link on my taskbar for restricted drivers. This took a couple of attempts of installation before it updated the menus correctly.

I reinstalled crossover games and then went through installing LOTRO and then collected the patch, but when starting this done nothing and didn't report anything in the output box.

So I thought it was a bad install so created a new bottle and reinstalled, but got same issue - so i decided to try using the restricted drivers for ATI which got downloaded and then installed - rebooted system and hey presto the initial screen has loaded, but as I haven't patched yet it's now patching the game.

If when it completes the game runs but freezes randomly like before should I try another distro or could it just be compatibility issues?

My system is

AMD Phenom II 940
MSI DKA790GX Platinum
4Gb Ram
X-Fi Extreme Gamer PE
Asus HD4870x2 Tri-Fan

any help appreciated thanks

This is a total stab in the dark as I run on a Mac under OSX, and my Unix background is with Tru64 Unix on Alphas, not Linux on Intel...

Recently, in fighting patching issues with PyLotRO, I notice that the "fix" involves Windows 32 bit modules.

Since you are running a 64 bit OS, one wonders if Turbine is in fact "circumscribed" by the 32bit Code environment.

While OSX can run in 64bit mode, it defaults to 32bit mode, even on 64 bit machines, for a variety of reasons, not the lease of which is program compatibility issues.

Of course, if 32/64 bit compatibility issues are the case, short of installing a 32 bit OS environment, I don't have any suggestions.

i think it maybe down to the ati drivers - found some settings last night which enabled crossfire on 4870x2 as these aren't enabled by default yet got the same issue

going to try a GTX460 on monday and see if that works, which I would give a 99% chance that it will, as I remember I never had problems running 64bit linux and getting games to work when I had an 8800GT or the 7500 (or 7600) running in SLi mode

but as you say the other option is to try the 32bit version of linux and see what happens