Lord of the Rings Online Forum

Hi

I have installed the Trial of Crossover Games and want to try LOTRO in my new imac. installation worked perfect also the LotROMac app is starting and i can login, but after login, i get the error message:

Fehler 202
Die lokale Datei 'English' konnte nicht gefunden werden (202)

In english:
Error 202
The local File 'English' could not be found (202)

i have installed LOTRO from the new DVD (book 13) german.

please help! i dont want to play it on my old XP maschine.

best regards

fifistargate wrote:

I have installed the Trial of Crossover Games and want to try LOTRO
in my new imac. installation worked perfect also the LotROMac app is
starting and i can login, but after login, i get the error message:

Fehler 202
Die lokale Datei 'English' konnte nicht gefunden werden (202)

In english:
Error 202
The local File 'English' could not be found (202)

i have installed LOTRO from the new DVD (book 13) german.

I'm assuming that the launcher was showing German in the language box.

If you look in the directory where LOTRO is installed you should have
one or more files called clientlocal*.dat (I'm guessing DE), can you
confirm the filename(s) (and case). Also under the raw directory what
subdirectories do you have?

It shows "Deutsch"

yes the file is called: client_local_DE.dat

i have the following directories:

backup
bindat
de
en-GB
forward
fr
raw
temp

regards

It sounds like your setup thinks it is the US version (the EU version used client_local_EN_GB.dat for English, the US uses client_local_English.dat). In the LOTRO directory there should be a file called TurbineLauncher.exe.config, the EU one should contain:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<configuration>

    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true"/>

    <startup>

        <requiredRuntime version="V1.1.4322" safemode="true"/>

        <supportedRuntime version="V1.1.4322" />

    </startup>

    <appSettings>

        <add key="Launcher.DataCenterService.GLS" value="http://lotroeugls.com/GLS.DataCenterServer/Service.asmx" />

        <add key="DataCenter.GameName" value="LOTROEU"/>

        <add key="DataCenter.DefaultCenter" value="LOTROEU"/>

        <add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="The Lord of the Rings Online"/>

        <add key="Launcher.DocumentFolder" value="Launcher"/>

    </appSettings>

</configuration>

If yours is different to that take a backup and replace it with the above see if that helps.

I've not had any of the other German users (or French for that matter) getting an error like that, so I'm guessing it is passing the language code to the game client correctly, I'll have a look to see if error 202 is reported on either the US or EU sites.

yes i have the same file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true"/>
    <startup>
        <requiredRuntime version="V1.1.4322" safemode="true"/>
        <supportedRuntime version="V1.1.4322" />
    </startup>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="Launcher.DataCenterService.GLS" value="http://lotroeugls.com/GLS.DataCenterServer/Service.asmx" />
        <add key="DataCenter.GameName" value="LOTROEU"/>
        <add key="DataCenter.DefaultCenter" value="LOTROEU"/>
        <add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="The Lord of the Rings Online"/>
        <add key="Launcher.DocumentFolder" value="Launcher"/>
    </appSettings>
</configuration>

but the is called: Der Herr der Ringe Online in german. maybe this is the problem?

i also installed it today in english, worked! but it would be nice to have it in german gg

regards

fifistargate wrote:

but the is called: Der Herr der Ringe Online in german. maybe this
is the problem?

i also installed it today in english, worked! but it would be nice
to have it in german gg

No the directory being in German doesn't matter.

Re-install the German version then copy the client_local_DE.dat to client_local_EN_GB.dat (so you
have both), you should then be able to start the game in German and if it does look for the English
file it will find it, it is a bit of a hack fix but it should work. Just be careful not to select
English in the launcher.

Still a bit odd that you are getting that error though.

Still the same =(
copied the file, renamed it like you wrote...

fifistargate wrote:

Still the same =(
copied the file, renamed it like you wrote...

Very strange, if it was a path problem it should have complained about the EN_GB version as well, you could try having a client_local_English.dat file but I would guess you'd get exactly the same problem.

I don't know what to suggest, if someone else uses the non-English version (French or German) without getting the same sort of error could they pop a post in here as I'm wondering if it is something to do with it being non-English.

i have installed LOTRO from the new DVD (book 13) german.

Have they started releasing new versions of the DVD? That is good to know as the old one needed a lot of patching which wasn't fun (not to mention the patchclient problem with the old DVDs).

Yes it is the anniversery edition, with book 13.

but the last try i did, where with book 11 multi pack - downloaded.

it would be great to play it in german, but i think i must play it in english.

but thanks for your help!

regards

hm last question, how should the file be named: client_local_English.dat or client_local_EN.dat or client_local_EN_GB.dat?

when i change the name to client_local_English.dat as you wrote in the last message, i dont get the error message!! but the game doesnt start... nothing happening.

strange

fifistargate wrote:

hm last question, how should the file be named:
client_local_English.dat or client_local_EN.dat or
client_local_EN_GB.dat?

when i change the name to client_local_English.dat as you wrote in
the last message, i dont get the error message!! but the game doesnt
start... nothing happening.

The US language file is called client_local_English.dat

I'm going to install the German version on my test system, see if I can work out what the problem is, can't promise anything but I've got some spare time this weekend to have a look.

As is often the case it is the silliest of things that cause the problems. With the patching if my launcher specified the working directory and cxg was passed the working directory as a parameter it would complain. The same is true with launching the game, for some reason the dual setting of the same working directory confused cxg.

I've corrected the problem and updated LotROMac, now I have to see if the linux version of cxg has the same problem.

On a side note LotROMac is now version 0.9.5, this includes the fix that allows spaces in bottle names and the username/password error to be correctly reported as such rather than a server error.

can belive it it worked!!! 😏

thank you very much! now i can play it in hi res and max resolution in german!

so it was a bug in the launcher if i understand you correct!

really many thanks!

best regards fifi

fifistargate wrote:

so it was a bug in the launcher if i understand you correct!

Yeah bit of a strange why should that affect anything type of bug, daft things is
it only seems to upset cxg on the mac, the exact same code works fine on linux.

Glad it's working for you.