Lord of the Rings Online Tips

For anyone trying to get LOTRO to work and finding that pylotro exits without properly loading the game or even creating configs I will post my fix here.

I was having problems with LoTRO failing to start on a new install of PCLinuxOS. Pylotro would run, load crossover but fail to load the game.  I tried many things but nothing worked. On a whim I temporarily halted Pulseaudio and LOTRO magically sprung to life! 

Anyway to get it working with pulse I followed some old instructions on the web.

 In a nutshell run:

padsp sh -c '"/opt/cxgames/bin/cxsetup"'

changing the path to cxgames if installed elsewhere (local install?)
Then in the audio tab select the OSS driver only.
Then run pylotro like this:

padsp pylotro

Lotro should then work fine.  Well fine except for no music in the starting titles but the ingame sound works fine :)
If you are not using the native pylotro I would guess add padsp to the command shortcut for the menu/desktop icon.
Hope this helps.