Lord of the Rings Online

**** OBSOLETE ****

Lord of the rings online as of December 17th, 2012.

Application Details:

Version:	Update 9, Against the Shadow
License:	Free to use
URL:	http://www.lotro.com/
Votes:	Marked as obsolete
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.5.28

Maintainers: About Maintainership

BjÃ¶rn Bidar

Test Results

Old test results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Plaiying a bit.

Dx3D9 and OpenGL Render work

What does not

cli login script

native Pylotro

quiting lotro (i had to kill it)

Workarounds

What was not tested

Larger playing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

GraphicsCore=OpenGL in UserPreferences.ini in lotro user settings folder to enable OpenGL Render GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 580 Driver: NVIDIA 313.30 Kernel: Linux 3.8.2-pf DE: KDE SC 4.10.2

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Arch Linux x86_64	Apr 28 2013	1.5.28	Yes	Yes		Gold	BjÃ¶rn Bidar
Show	Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Feb 26 2013	1.5.24	Yes	Yes		Gold	Steven Wilson
Show	Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" x86_64	Feb 09 2013	1.5.23	Yes	Yes		Gold	Erik Wroblewski
Show	Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jan 25 2013	1.5.21	Yes	Yes		Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" x86_64	Jan 10 2013	1.5.21	Yes	Yes		Silver	Erik Wroblewski

HowTo / Notes

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Getting Started

If you need any basic help read first the manpage of wine (eg. man wine) or the Wine User Guide or Wine FAQ. If this don't helps please ad basic informations like distribution, distribution version (if exist) and wine version. Please add case relevant informations like GPU driver version if needed.

Got error? Read this please

As of October 15th, 2012, with the release of Riders of Rohan, this game is broken on versions of wine prior 1.5.18 , resulting in this error:

wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00000034 at address 0x6d3fd2 (thread 0024)

If your distrubtion dosn't ship an actual wine version you need to build yourself.

For instructions on building wine, see below. However, note that this is a quite advanced task.

These Binaries are outdated use with care:

UPDATE: Prebuilt binaries for the following distributions can be downloaded from the links below. Note that these are not packages (.deb, .rpm, etc.), see install instructions below.

Intel Sandy-Bridge or later CPU only
x86_64/i686 (generic, some parts like wine64 are only useble with x86_64)

To install, extract the archive some place, like /home/username/local/wine-1.5.15-lotro. Example:

mkdir -p ${HOME}/local/wine-1.5.15-lotro
cd ${HOME}/local/wine-1.5.15-lotro
tar xf path/wine-1.5.15-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Now, start pylotro and go to Tools --> Options, check "Advanced Options" and enter /home/username/local/wine-1.5.15-lotro/bin/wine in "Wine Binary" text box. Obviously, replace "username" with your own.

wine: Call from 0x7b83bcb2 to unimplemented function d3d11.dll.D3D11CreateDevice, aborting

This bug has been found to affect lord of the rings online with wine version 1.5.20

To get around it, go into winecfg add d3d11.dll to overrides and disable it through the edit option.

Game freezes after selecting acharacter *

Currently GNU-TLS breaks the game if enabled while building possible workarounds are:

Build wine without GNU-TLS support.
Remove the GNUTLS(32) package ((lib32-)gnutls or such).

*('*** Error in `lotroclient.exe': malloc(): memory corruption: 0xe1002160 ***' or such)

Standard LOTRO wine installation

Throughout this tutorial Iâ€™ll assume you know how to open a terminal and run commands (lines beginning with $, but donâ€™t include the $). You should also check to see how much video memory you have. This will come in handy later. If unsure, donâ€™t worry about it.

Before we get started

Note to 64 bit Gnome users*:

A new error may occur with the newer releases of 64 bit Gnome desktops (including Unity). The message is:
â€œ64bit Error â€œp11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryâ€

It occurs after logging in. The only known solution found so far is here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/127848/wine-cant-find-gnome-keyring-pkcs11-so

I still had problems after applying this solution.
The solution I found was to try a non-Gnome desktop. Switching from unity to kde-standard worked for me. You could also switch to the 32 bit version of Ubuntu or whichever distro you use.

Getting Started

First chose a folder for your prefix and do this:

$ export WINEPREFIX=<your PREFIX>

. Then install 'corefonts' with winetricks (without the ingame store won't work):

$ winetricks corefonts
Grab the LOTRO installer

Note: If you already have LOTRO installed somewhere you can copy the â€˜Turbine/The Lord of the Rings Onlineâ€™ directory into your â€˜.wine/drive_câ€™ folder (Default location is â€˜Program Filesâ€™). Then skip ahead to â€˜Install missing splash screensâ€™

Now use one the standard LOTRO installers.
You can grab either Low or High resolution installer.

Low resolution:
$ wget http://content.turbine.com/sites/clientdl/lotro/lotrostandard.exe

High resolution:
$ wget http://content.turbine.com/sites/clientdl/lotro/lotrohigh.exe

LOTRO installation (skip if you are â€˜already installedâ€™)

If you have the full installer you can start it directly using wine.
$ wine LOTROSetup.exe

If you are using the standard LOTRO installer you can start it by prefixing the wine command with â€˜GC_DONT_GC=1â€™.

eg (highress installer=lotrohigh.exe,standard installer=lotrostandard.exe)
$ GC_DONT_GC=1 $installer

Note: If the downloader freezes at some point just kill the process (ctrl+c in the terminal) and start the downloader again. If you donâ€™t remove any files it should resume the download and continue.

During the installation be sure to uncheck â€˜create desktop iconâ€™, â€˜READMEâ€™, the subscription, and the â€˜Load Lord Of The Rings Onlineâ€™ options ( Currently TurbineLauncher fails when trying to load it. Weâ€™ll be using the 3rd party client â€˜Pylotroâ€™ to load the game instead.)

Install missing splash screens

Without these you would normally see grey splash screen with white crosshatches during game load or when teleporting. Normally the TurbineLauncher would grab these. But since it doesn't work we have to download them ourselves.

These images need to be installed into â€œTurbine/The Lord of the Rings Online/raw/en/logoâ€.

First:

32bit prefix:
$ cd ${WINEPREFIX:-~/.wine}/dosdevices/c:/Program\ Files/Turbine/The\ Lord\ of\ the\ Rings\ Online/raw/en/logo

64bit prefix (NOTE: I recommed to install Lotro in an 32Bit Prefix, WINEARCH=win32)
$ cd ${WINEPREFIX:-~/.wine}/drive_c/Program\ Files\ $x86$/Turbine/The\ Lord\ of\ the\ Rings\ Online/raw/en/logo

Now download the splash screens (I have a script to simplify this)
Note: This script defaults to english if you omit the language. â€˜frâ€™ and â€˜deâ€™ also available.

$ wget https://sites.google.com/site/leeslinuxblog/lotrosplashme.sh
$ bash lotrosplashme.sh en

Install pylotro

Thereâ€™s three ways we can do this. One is installing using the source. The second is the windows exe in wine. The third is installing via Ubuntu PPA if you use Ubuntu or via AUR if you use Arch. Preferably use the windows version as it has consistently less problems.

Install windows exe in Wine

Download the windows exe file:
$ wget http://www.mcgillsociety.org/PyLotRO/pylotro-setup.exe

Install from source

Make sure you have python2) and python2-pyqt4 installed.

Download the source: (pylotro website is no more)
$ wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/ajackson-bcs/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pylotro/pylotro_0.1.15precise.tar.gz

Unzip source & cd to the directory:
$ unzip PyLotRO-0.1.15.zip;cd PyLotRO
Run setup.py.

Via sudo
$ sudo python setup.py install

Or if sudo won't work via su:
$ su -c â€œpython setup.py installâ€

Install using Ubuntu PPA

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ajackson-bcs/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get install -y pylotro

Configure PyLotRO to run LOTRO

(Can be done via wizard or manually)

Wizard: (may not work with 64bit. Use â€˜manuallyâ€™)
1. Click â€˜Toolsâ€™
2. Click â€˜Settings Wizardâ€™.
3. Select â€˜Lord of the Rings Onlineâ€™ and click â€˜Find Gamesâ€™.
4. Select â€œC:\Program Files\Turbine\The Lord of the Rings Onlineâ€
5. Click Apply.

Manually:
1. Click â€˜Toolsâ€™ on the menu bar.
2. Click â€˜Optionsâ€™.
3. Choose Game directory.
(32bit prefix: <$WINEPREFIX>/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Turbine/The Lord of the Rings Online
64bit prefix: <$WINEPREFIX>/dosdevices/c:/Program Files (x86)/Turbine/The Lord of the Rings Online)
4. (optional) Enable â€˜High-Res Graphicsâ€™.
5. Save the settings.

Pylotro should now fill right up with the Realm list, news, languages, etc.

Patch the game data

1. Click â€˜Toolsâ€™ on menu bar.
2. Click â€˜Patchâ€™.
3. Click â€˜Startâ€™ (This can take a while).
4. When finished, click â€˜Exitâ€™.

Run LOTRO!

Select realm and login!

In the future simply load Pylotro to play the game :)

Notes

If the game ever gives you an error saying you donâ€™t have the latest version of the client installed, simply run â€˜Patchâ€™ from the Tools menu in Pylotro

You may also get errors regarding your audio. This is normal. If you don't have sound, Go to â€˜Options->Audioâ€™ and select your 'Sound Playback' device. You can ignore the error's in the PyLotRO output window, or you can try configuring your sound in winecfg.

Fixes/Tweaks

At this point you should be able to sign in and play the game. But its normal for some performance issues to manifest here. Here are some tweaks/fixes you can try.

Set the correct video memory size in the Registry.

1. Open regedit:

2. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D/
(if this key does not exist, see â€˜Missing Direct3D registry branchâ€™ below)

3. Edit or create a key called â€˜VideoMemorySizeâ€™.
Set â€˜VideoMemorySizeâ€™ to the amount of video memory you have (1gb == 1024).

Missing Direct3D registry branch:

1. Right click Wine key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\
2. Click New->key
3. Enter â€˜Direct3Dâ€™
4. Right click the â€˜Direct3Dâ€™ key
5. Click New->String Value
6. Type â€˜VideoMemorySizeâ€™
7. Right click â€˜VideoMemorySizeâ€™, then modify
8. Enter amount of video memory (1024 == 1gb)

Game Tweaks

Tweaking the game:

Setting the video memory size usually fixes most performance issues. However there is a list of things you can do to try to kick the performance up an extra notch. Of course these are just suggestions. They are all optional.

Disable desktop 3D effects

The 3D desktop features can cause some performance issues in the game. Logging out and changing your Desktop session, or disabling 3D desktop effects can greatly increase game performance.

Choose a â€˜Graphics Qualityâ€™ in Options->Graphics

Itâ€™s common for the auto detection to misdetect the card since there is a wine api in the middle of everything. Select this manually to get the quality you want. (I chose â€˜very highâ€™ for my 1gb Nvidia card)

Increase â€˜Texture Cache Sizeâ€™ in Options->Adv. Graphics

You can increase this to improve the game performance by increasing the amount of system memory used for graphics resources. This can decrease load times and in turn increase game performance.

Enable â€˜Triple Bufferingâ€™ in Options->Adv. Graphics

For video cards with extra memory you can use this setting to slightly increase rendering performance.

Disable â€˜Player Mesh Combiningâ€™ in Options->Adv. Graphics

This feature not only uses up more system memory, but also video memory. Saving a little video memory can always help game performance.

Disable â€˜Distant Impostersâ€™ in Options->Adv. Graphics

This option simply allows trees and other objects to render over distant scenery. Can be disabled to increase game performance.

Enable OpenGL Render

Since December 2011 Lotro has an OpenGL Render you can use it bychanging "GraphicsCore" in "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:/users/$USER/My Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/UserPreferences.ini" to "OpenGL".

Comments

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Possible 12.0.1 problem - Turbine Launcher hanging
by William Magill on Tuesday November 26th 2013, 18:57

There seems to be some issue with 12.0.1 which I don't believe it was present in the base 12.0 release. (I have just moved, so I was off-line for a bit at Launch.)

At any rate. PyLotRO patches and will launch the game with no problems.

However, trying to launch the game directly using the Turbine Launcher as I had been doing "almost works." The Launcher gets started and then hangs on "Downloading "EN Loading Screen 2".

Using CrossOver 13.0 -- which is a recent update (12 November) as well, so at the moment, I don't know which might be the problem. (I had been running the 13.0 beta with no problem, but this was the first run with the released version.)

The only indication of WINE version in the release notes is for Crossover 12.5 (13 August 2013) which was WINE 1.6

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