Lord of the Rings Online Forum

I ran LOTROMac well for a good while. I recently updated both crossover and to PyLOTRO. On my iMac at the office, it runs great (I use regular graphics), after reinstalling the MOM installer, and running the patcher for the new patch today. Still running great. So I made an archive of the bottle and brought it home.

I installed both the newest crossover and the new bottle archive. LOTRO runs, and fine.

My trouble is that I can't seem to get full screen running at home (mac pro with nice stats, ATI card) I ended up with a non windowed game running with about an inch of Mac screen on the top and the bottom. I played with the graphic settings for a half hour, and ended up with the above situation, and just played for awhile tonight. The less than full screen graphics starts right up after logging in at the PyLOTRO screen, the first screen even had the three mac buttons at the top left border. The game settings that I finally had did not have a border on the game, just the inch above and below. Changing the resolution to higher does nothing above a certain point.

Does anyone know the settings somewhere in Crossover for Games that is causing this?

I plan to upgrade my card when the new Snow Leopard comes out in September, and perhaps try high graphics then. But for now I would just like to find the switch for this graphics mode thing. Of note, the iMac at work, where I generated the bottle archive started right up in full screen graphics.

The only wild guess that I can offer is that the bottle didn't like being un-archived on another machine.

Have you tried (re)installing LOTRO on the second computer?

Yes, I deleted my LOTRO files, Deleted CXG and went after their entries in the library.

I then reinstalled CXG, and used a newly downloaded LOTRO installer. Same issue, but I have just learned to live with it.

I tried playing LOTRO with Parallels, which would load and run and everything. The problem with the game at that point is that the mouse did not move your view around correctly. Anytime you would try to look in another direction, the camera would go crazy, with wild spinning and changing of altitude. I think that there is some setting somewhere left over from this trial that is forcing the windowed view.

To be honest, its nice to be able to get to the web and my iTunes program without dropping out of the game. I did cause the menu bar to autohide, which gives me more space. I won't be spending any time trying to change it at this point.

Reading the notice above, I am hoping I saved the installer somewhere, as I might need them after the Snow Leopard update comes out in a couple of months.

Thanks for the advice.

I am having some trouble running the game as well, it plays wonderfully, on high graphics, using a macbook pro - with Nvidia graphics. It even plays in fullscreen, which is great, but every time I try and change the resolution of the screen, because it's at 1152x720, so I change it to 1440x900, the screen just goes white, even if I change the resolution to something else, it just goes white, and there's no display nothing - the game is still running though, so I have to use Command + Q to quit the game, and restart it, and it will start back up in 1152x720.

Any advice would be nice, running Crossover Games with PyLotRO.

I just want to try and get the best experience out of this, and try and use the full resources of my computer.

Additional Note: the screen doesn't go fully white, the game would just somehow go into 'window mode' I guess, it would be a tiny screen that would appear white, I can still see like my desktop and such, just that the game screen would be white.