Application Details:
Version: | Volume II - Book IX - Siege of Mirkwood |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.lotro.com/ |
Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
Latest Rating: | Gold |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.3.19 |
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What works
All i tested, execpt of switching from desktop back to the game.
What does not
Switching from desktop back to the gam, when i had minmize it
before.
Workarounds
What was not tested
raids and pvp
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
To improve the performce i had set ddr render to opengl and seted mulisampling to enabled. My graphic card is a Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX+ with nvidia driver ver 270.41.06.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Current | Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 07 2011 | 1.3.19 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Björn Bidar | ||
Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 06 2010 | 1.3.0 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Yoann Laissus | ||
Show | Linux Mint 9 "Isadora" | Sep 10 2010 | 1.2 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 18 2010 | 1.2 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Kevin Soulsby | ||
Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 18 2010 | 1.1.44 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Kevin Soulsby |
NOTE: These instructions and the below script are now out of date and may need re-testing & updatingÂ.
Installer Script
ÂÂThe installer script is now at version 0.1.5 (updated May 20th, 2010). This automates most of the process for installing LotRO, by correctly initializing your Wine environment. However, as of the Siege of Mirkwood release, the downloader/installer program from the lotro.com website no longer workÂs in Wine (see Ârelated bug here).
EU Customers
The below script should work fine, although you'll have to manually unpack the installer files and run the setup yourself (that part isn't automated).
US Customers
The previous US installer program still works, but unfortunately, Turbine has removed it and it is no longer available for download. At this time, these instructions lack a real working solution (check back soon for an update to this). If you have access to a previous installation or the setup files (a setup program with the large .bin files) then you can still run that setup and then bring it up to date with the patcher.
ÂRunning the Setup Script
Open a terminal window and run the following commands:
wget -O lotrosetup.tmp http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=i8QMv2K2 # pastebin always windows-izes your text files, so we have to convert them back cat lotrosetup.tmp | tr -d '\r' > lotrosetup-0.1.5.sh && rm lotrosetup.tmp chmod u+x lotrosetup-0.1.5.sh ./lotrosetup-0.1.5.sh
Using the minimal patcher (US Customers)
As mentioned earlier, there is not yet a complete solution for US customers using a new install, but this will get part of the files if you can obtain the .dat files elsewhere. You must download this file from rapidshare and save it to your home directory. If you have never used rapidshare before, it's pretty much a pain. Click on the "Free User" button and then you have to wait some odd number of seconds before it finally displays a "download now" button -- this is to try to force you to pay them money. If somebody else wants to host this file, PLEASE do and post the new link!!! Once you have downloaded the file, run the following commands (presuming you saved it to your home directory):
export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-lotro tar xf ~/lotro-minimal-patcher.tbz2 -C ${WINEPREFIX}ÂÂÂÂ
You may now either run the launcher by clicking the "LOTRO Launcher" icon the setup script made on your desktop or run the following additional commands in the same terminal window:
cd "${WINEPREFIX}/drive_c/Program Files/Turbine/The Lord of the Rings Online" ./lotrolauncher.sh
Please read the following notes:
Please submit feedback on how this script works for you. Thanks!
Performance Tweaks
When running on Linux, you should turn down the texture cache to something very small like zero to 5. Turbine added this functionality to make up for Window's exceedingly poor and intentionally crippled file caching (in hopes you'll upgrade to server I suppose). But on Linux, it will only waste memory. (However, extensive tests on this haven't been run.)
ÂÂManual Setup
Since Lord of the ÂRings Online Mines of Moria actually needs files that can break or prevent other installed apps from running, is better to create clean isolated wine prefix for MoM.
So lets get started
Open a terminal and write
export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-lotro
Ever on the same terminal that you have exported your WINEPREFIX, write the following commands:
wine cmd /c it worked # Should output "it worked" wineserver -k wget -nv http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks chmod u+x ./winetricks ./winetricks win2k ./winetricks gecko ./winetricks vcrun2005 ./winetricks vcrun2005sp1Â
On the same terminal, write:
regedit
And add the keys from regedit section.
Just to keep it clear, I repeat, its very important that you are sure that you are running all these commands from a terminal that you have exported your target WINEPREFIX, otherwise you can end breaking your default .wine directory.
Installation
If you followed the previous steps, you have ready an environment to install MoM without problems. At this time, the SoM installer does not work. You can choose to:
Example, in a terminal, write:
Âexport WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-lotro wine lotrosetup.exeÂ
Launcher Script
Current version of command line launcher is v0.9.9c released 10 / April/ 2008, if you have a previous version please update to this one.
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To launch the client on Linux you need to download this script and this support script (rename it to urlencode.sh). Extra details about the script can be found on the script developers site.
These scripts must be placed in directory containing the file lotroclient.exe
To run the script type either bash scriptname or ./scriptname if the scripts permissions allow for execute (where scriptname is the name of the downloaded script)
*NOTE: In some newer distros like Ubuntu 7.10 an maybe upper this command line script fails as newer versions of wget need a "--no-check-certificate" switch after every wget command to work properly, please uncomment (remove the leading #) the following line on lotrolauncher.script: #wgetNoCheckCertOption="--no-check-certificate"
An alternative to the CLI launcher is the GUI launcher, available here,
note you need the mono compiler installed to compile (see README for
additional information), once compiled place the run and ico files in
your LOTRO directory and run using either ./LotROLinux.run or mono
LotROLinux.run. It works with the EU and US version, actually it can
patch the game via Tools->Patch. The GUI launcher is not affected by the wget related issue.
winecfg Settings
Windows Version: Windows 2000 or Windows XP
regedit Settings
From an exported terminal insert the following as string values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D/VideoMemorySize = < amount of video memory ie 256 >If you're using a European client you may need to use the following if your client is failing to update:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall/4f6dcc3b-179d-4b1b-80f0-b6083a0b3ce6_is1/ Inno Setup: App Path = C:\\Program Files\\The Lord of the Rings Online
UserPreferences.ini settings
Note this file is found in the equivalent of your "My Documents\The Lord of the Rings" folder which defaults to ~/The Lord of the Rings
If you do not currently have a UserPreferences.ini file run the game using the script or gui it will crash with an error but will create a default UserPreferences.ini file
AllowFakeFullScreen=False FullScreen=True
Those settings will enable you to start the game and log in as a character. If you change any settings via the graphics or advanced graphics tabs ensure that those setting are correct (ie choosing a new level of graphics via the graphics tab may alter some of these values)
Updating
If you have Book 11 or upper install the latest command line launcher script version v0.9.9 will update automatically your client via the patch servers.
Otherwise if you have an older than Book 11 install, you will need to update to Book 11 on a Windows system or VM as the command line launcher script does not support older patchclient.dll versions, and copy the entire client into your Linux box, ensuring that you are the owner of the resulting files and permissions for files, folders and subfolders are set to write and execute, from that point you can update normally using the command line launcher script.
Playing the game
You should use Wine 1.1.2 or upward, as from that point Wine includes a fix that easen worst lag scenarios on LOTRO.
For CLI launcher is better to have a small script that automates launch, copy the following in your favorite text editor and save it as lotro.sh:
#!/bin/sh # Lotro prefix automated launcher ## IFS="," cd "$HOME/.wine-lotro/drive_c/Program Files/The Lord of the Rings Online" export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-lotro export WINEDEBUG=fixme-all ./lotrolauncher.sh ÂÂÂ# End of script
Save it and in a terminal do a:
chmod a+x lotro.sh
Then you can use it with ./lotro.sh or sh lotro.sh
For  GUI launcher add in the WINEPREFIX field under Options the following:
/home/your-username/.wine-lotro
With that you can start and update the game normallyÂ
LOTRO isn't the easiest game to setup, installing LOTRO requires some level of understanding Linux and Wine commands, procedures shown below are valid for English systems, so other languages might need to change some paths.
If you are new to Linux or Wine please ask for help here first, it will be faster and more accurate for beginners.
If you still have problems that live support chat isn't capable of resolve, feel free of asking here.
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