Lord of the Rings Online poor performance.

Tobiasfrost · Sep 5, 2010

Hello all,

I've spent the last few days searching the web for ways to fix this, and have tried a lot of the suggestions posted here for people having similar symptoms with Windows 7 in various programs.

I recently reinstalled Lord of the Rings Online after having not played it for some time. Before I ran it under Windows XP without any real issues, on the exact same system. The problem I am having now is the game hitches / pauses as if I were pressing the screenshot button. It is most noticeable in high traffic areas or when large groups of players are fighting. However it also happens in open areas with nobody else around, and even happens in a small one room zone with just one NPC for a quest in it.

I've done everything I can think of up to this point: updated graphics drivers, motherboard drivers, sound drivers, network card drivers. I switched all the graphics settings to low or disabled and it still happened. I disabled page files to force the system to run on physical memory alone. I disabled the sound card and tried playing with no sound. I disconnected my computer from our router and plugged it directly into the cable modem. I ran a disk defrag as well as a defrag utility the game makers put out.

After all that I even flashed the motherboard BIOS to the current version from MSI. It actually seems a lot worse since doing that. I will approach an area where a lot of players are fighting and the frame rate completely drops, quickly going below 1 FPS even. While this happens I still hear the background music normally as well as combat sound effects, although those come vary spaced out. The first time this happened I hit a skill to transport me out of the area, and proceeded to watch for 10 minutes while nothing happened, aside from the screen changing a frame every 30-60 seconds or so. It wouldn't jump ahead when it updated, as though catching up to what's really happening, but it would just advance frame by frame through what you would be normally seeing only at a much much faster rate. The mouse cursor moves as smooth as ever during all this, and the chat window continues to scroll from time to time but I can't activate it to type anything.

Code:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 9/5/2010, 00:09:16
       Machine name: TIMMY-PC
   Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
       System Model: MS-7376
               BIOS: Default System BIOS
          Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
             Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4096MB RAM
          Page File: 911MB used, 7277MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
   User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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      Display Tab 1: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
          Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D:    0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw:  0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay:  0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow:  0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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       Manufacturer: NVIDIA
          Chip type: GeForce GTX 260
           DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
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      Shared Memory: 1791 MB
       Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (75Hz)
       Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
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         Monitor Id: AMT0049
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        DDI Version: 10
       Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
  Driver Attributes: Final Retail
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            DXVA-HD: Supported
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Sound Devices
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 Default Sound Playback: Yes
 Default Voice Playback: Yes
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                   Type: WDM
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            WHQL Logo'd: n/a
          Date and Size: 7/6/2010 18:31:36, 2419176 bytes
            Other Files: 
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         HW Accel Level: Basic
              Cap Flags: 0xF1F
    Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
              HW Memory: 0
       Voice Management: No
 EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
   I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

            Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
 Default Sound Playback: No
 Default Voice Playback: No
            Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_14627376&REV_1000
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          Date and Size: 7/6/2010 18:31:36, 2419176 bytes
            Other Files: 
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Sound Capture Devices
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            Description: Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio)
  Default Sound Capture: Yes
  Default Voice Capture: Yes
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      Driver Attributes: Final Retail
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DirectInput Devices
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      Device Name: Mouse
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    Controller ID: n/a
Vendor/Product ID: n/a
        FF Driver: n/a

      Device Name: Keyboard
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Poll w/ Interrupt: No

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USB Devices
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+ USB Root Hub
| Vendor/Product ID: 0x1002, 0x438B
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+-+ Logitech USB G3 (MX518) Optical Mouse
| | Vendor/Product ID: 0x046D, 0xC01E
| | Location: Port_#0002.Hub_#0005
| | Matching Device ID: usb\vid_046d&pid_c01e
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| +-+ Logitech HID-compliant G3/MX518 Optical Mouse
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Gameport Devices
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PS/2 Devices
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+ Terminal Server Keyboard Driver
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System Devices
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     Name: High Definition Audio Controller
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     Name: VIA 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller
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     Name: PCI standard host CPU bridge
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     Name: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
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     Name: PCI standard host CPU bridge
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     Name: PCI standard host CPU bridge
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     Name: Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
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     Name: PCI standard host CPU bridge
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     Name: PCI standard host CPU bridge
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     Name: ATI I/O Communications Processor PCI Bus Controller
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   Driver: n/a

     Name: PCI standard host CPU bridge
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DirectShow Filters
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SAMI (CC) Parser,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
VBI Codec,0x00600000,1,4,VBICodec.ax,6.06.7600.16385
MPEG-2 Splitter,0x005fffff,1,0,mpg2splt.ax,6.06.7600.16590
Closed Captions Analysis Filter,0x00200000,2,5,cca.dll,6.06.7600.16385
SBE2FileScan,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Encoder,0x00200000,1,1,msmpeg2enc.dll,6.01.7600.16385
Internal Script Command Renderer,0x00800001,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
MPEG Audio Decoder,0x03680001,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
DV Splitter,0x00600000,1,2,qdv.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Video Mixing Renderer 9,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Microsoft MPEG-2 Encoder,0x00200000,2,1,msmpeg2enc.dll,6.01.7600.16385
ACM Wrapper,0x00600000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Video Renderer,0x00800001,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
MPEG-2 Video Stream Analyzer,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Line 21 Decoder,0x00600000,1,1,qdvd.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Video Port Manager,0x00600000,2,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Video Renderer,0x00400000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
VPS Decoder,0x00200000,0,0,WSTPager.ax,6.06.7600.16385
WM ASF Writer,0x00400000,0,0,qasf.dll,12.00.7600.16385
VBI Surface Allocator,0x00600000,1,1,vbisurf.ax,6.01.7600.16385
File writer,0x00200000,1,0,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385
iTV Data Sink,0x00600000,1,0,itvdata.dll,6.06.7600.16385
iTV Data Capture filter,0x00600000,1,1,itvdata.dll,6.06.7600.16385
WAV Dest,0x00000000,0,0,,
DVD Navigator,0x00200000,0,3,qdvd.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Overlay Mixer2,0x00200000,1,1,qdvd.dll,6.06.7600.16385
AVI Draw,0x00600064,9,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
RDP DShow Redirection Filter,0xffffffff,1,0,DShowRdpFilter.dll,
Microsoft MPEG-2 Audio Encoder,0x00200000,1,1,msmpeg2enc.dll,6.01.7600.16385
WST Pager,0x00200000,1,1,WSTPager.ax,6.06.7600.16385
MPEG-2 Demultiplexer,0x00600000,1,1,mpg2splt.ax,6.06.7600.16590
DV Video Decoder,0x00800000,1,1,qdv.dll,6.06.7600.16385
SampleGrabber,0x00200000,1,1,qedit.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Null Renderer,0x00200000,1,0,qedit.dll,6.06.7600.16385
MPEG-2 Sections and Tables,0x005fffff,1,0,Mpeg2Data.ax,6.06.7600.16385
Microsoft AC3 Encoder,0x00200000,1,1,msac3enc.dll,6.01.7600.16385
StreamBufferSource,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Smart Tee,0x00200000,1,2,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Overlay Mixer,0x00200000,0,0,qdvd.dll,6.06.7600.16385
AVI Decompressor,0x00600000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
AVI/WAV File Source,0x00400000,0,2,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Wave Parser,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
MIDI Parser,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Multi-file Parser,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
File stream renderer,0x00400000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio Decoder,0x005fffff,1,1,msmpeg2adec.dll,6.01.7140.0000
StreamBufferSink2,0x00200000,0,0,sbe.dll,6.06.7600.16385
AVI Mux,0x00200000,1,0,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Line 21 Decoder 2,0x00600002,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
File Source (Async.),0x00400000,0,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
File Source (URL),0x00400000,0,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Infinite Pin Tee Filter,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Enhanced Video Renderer,0x00200000,1,0,evr.dll,6.01.7600.16385
BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter,0x00200000,2,0,psisrndr.ax,6.06.7600.16385
MPEG Video Decoder,0x40000001,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490

WDM Streaming Tee/Splitter Devices:
Tee/Sink-to-Sink Converter,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7600.16385

Video Compressors:
WMVideo8 Encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,wmvxencd.dll,6.01.7600.16385
WMVideo9 Encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,wmvencod.dll,6.01.7600.16385
MSScreen 9 encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,wmvsencd.dll,6.01.7600.16385
DV Video Encoder,0x00200000,0,0,qdv.dll,6.06.7600.16385
MJPEG Compressor,0x00200000,0,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Cinepak Codec by Radius,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Intel IYUV codec,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Intel IYUV codec,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Microsoft RLE,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Microsoft Video 1,0x00200000,1,1,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385

Audio Compressors:
WM Speech Encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,WMSPDMOE.DLL,6.01.7600.16385
WMAudio Encoder DMO,0x00600800,1,1,WMADMOE.DLL,6.01.7600.16385
IMA ADPCM,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
PCM,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Microsoft ADPCM,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
GSM 6.10,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
CCITT A-Law,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
CCITT u-Law,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
MPEG Layer-3,0x00200000,1,1,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490

Audio Capture Sources:
Microphone (Realtek High Defini,0x00200000,0,0,qcap.dll,6.06.7600.16385

PBDA CP Filters:
PBDA DTFilter,0x00600000,1,1,CPFilters.dll,6.06.7600.16590
PBDA ETFilter,0x00200000,0,0,CPFilters.dll,6.06.7600.16590
PBDA PTFilter,0x00200000,0,0,CPFilters.dll,6.06.7600.16590

Midi Renderers:
Default MidiOut Device,0x00800000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490

WDM Streaming Capture Devices:
Realtek HD Audio CD input,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7600.16385
Realtek HD Audio Line input,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7600.16385
Realtek HD Audio Mic input,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7600.16385
Realtek HD Audio Stereo input,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7600.16385

WDM Streaming Rendering Devices:
Realtek HD Audio output,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7600.16385
Realtek HDA SPDIF Out,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7600.16385

BDA Network Providers:
Microsoft ATSC Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSDvbNP.ax,6.06.7600.16385
Microsoft DVBC Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSDvbNP.ax,6.06.7600.16385
Microsoft DVBS Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSDvbNP.ax,6.06.7600.16385
Microsoft DVBT Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSDvbNP.ax,6.06.7600.16385
Microsoft Network Provider,0x00200000,0,1,MSNP.ax,6.06.7600.16590

Multi-Instance Capable VBI Codecs:
VBI Codec,0x00600000,1,4,VBICodec.ax,6.06.7600.16385

BDA Transport Information Renderers:
BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter,0x00600000,2,0,psisrndr.ax,6.06.7600.16385
MPEG-2 Sections and Tables,0x00600000,1,0,Mpeg2Data.ax,6.06.7600.16385

BDA CP/CA Filters:
Decrypt/Tag,0x00600000,1,1,EncDec.dll,6.06.7600.16385
Encrypt/Tag,0x00200000,0,0,EncDec.dll,6.06.7600.16385
PTFilter,0x00200000,0,0,EncDec.dll,6.06.7600.16385
XDS Codec,0x00200000,0,0,EncDec.dll,6.06.7600.16385

WDM Streaming Communication Transforms:
Tee/Sink-to-Sink Converter,0x00200000,1,1,ksproxy.ax,6.01.7600.16385

Audio Renderers:
Speakers (Realtek High Definiti,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Default DirectSound Device,0x00800000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Default WaveOut Device,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
DirectSound: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio),0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
DirectSound: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio),0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490
Realtek Digital Output (Realtek,0x00200000,1,0,quartz.dll,6.06.7600.16490

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EVR Power Information
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Current Setting: {5C67A112-A4C9-483F-B4A7-1D473BECAFDC} (Quality) 
  Quality Flags: 2576
    Enabled:
    Force throttling
    Allow half deinterlace
    Allow scaling
    Decode Power Usage: 100
  Balanced Flags: 1424
    Enabled:
    Force throttling
    Allow batching
    Force half deinterlace
    Force scaling
    Decode Power Usage: 50
  PowerFlags: 1424
    Enabled:
    Force throttling
    Allow batching
    Force half deinterlace
    Force scaling
    Decode Power Usage: 0

If anyone has any other ideas please let me know. I haven't had any similar issues with Anarchy Online or EVE Online that I've noticed.

Wishmaster · Sep 5, 2010

Defragmenting may help some with hitching.

Beyond that, it almost sounds like a server lag issue.

Does it always do this regardless of the time of day?

Have you tried on another server?

Tobiasfrost · Sep 5, 2010

I ran disk defrag as well as a defrag utility for the game files from the producer.

It happens at any time of day when there's more than a few players around fighting, with lots of effects. This is when it's most pronounced, but there's small hitches whenever, even standing still doing nothing sometimes.

It's quite different from when there is lag. The game has a built in feature that reduces your awareness of your surroundings to help with server lag when there's a lot of players in one area. An icon pops up so you know, and I think it reduces the draw-in range for players / NPCs. Also when there's lag in the connection, I'll see players running in place, or be unable to move, but can spin around in one spot and the game responds normally otherwise. It's nothing like what I'm experiencing.

Just now I got jumped by 7 or 8 players at once and all the effects going off made the game hang up and I came out of it quite dead.

Wishmaster · Sep 5, 2010

Is it just this game you have issues with?
I see you have tried EVE & AO without issue but do graphic intesive games play fine?

Did you update your DirectX files?

From your specs, you have a quite decent gaming rig. No doubt more than capable for LOTRO.
If everything else runs fine, I would certainly think its centered around LOTRO somehow, and not your machine.

This almost sounds like a connection issue although may not be.

A couple other thoughts:
1) I do recall some having alot or performance issues with LOTRO under DX10.
Perhaps try running in DX9 and see if it helps.

Although I must admit, it has been quite some time since a played the game, well over a year. So this very well may have been resolved.
It may be worth trying at any count.

2) Did they not recently upgrade to a limited free to play system? I haven't checked on it lately or know if its live yet but ..
Im wondering if perhaps the implementation has broken something for some people. Or causing alot more server strain ...

Tobiasfrost · Sep 5, 2010

Thanks for the ideas. I have tried both DX 10 and DX 9 modes, it looks better in DX 10 but the pauses are still there.

You're correct the free to play model is coming, but not yet. It's starting this coming week starting Wednesday or so I think.

As far as other games, I haven't had the urge to play anything else in a while. When I was still running XP I played through Mass Effect 2, Borderlands for example with no issues and good gameplay on pretty high settings.

Edit: Well seems its prime time again and there are a huge number of players in the pvp area. I uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled the latest graphics drivers from NVIDIA and then did the steps "How-to's": "Voice Chat" - "Improving Video Hitching, Glitching.." - The Lord of the Rings Online™ Forums here to reset the graphics configuration in game, afterwards setting everything back to low.

The game doesn't become nearly unresponsive around large groups fighting now like before, but it is still basically unplayable and I can barely run around.

Tobiasfrost · Sep 5, 2010

Well, I don't want to be preemptive but I just changed a two small things and seem to have noticed a drastic drastic improvement. I was able to actually move around and fight in a huge fight.

Here's what I did:

- Created a profile for Lord of the Rings in the NVIDIA control panel. There wasn't one before. Left all the settings set to the global settings except for one: Power management mode, I switched from Adaptive to Performance.

I just went to double check the setting in the control panel, however, and the profile is gone again. So this probably didn't have anything to do with it.

The other thing I did was go into the Lotro program folder and change all of these to run as Administrator and in XP Service Pack 2 compatibility mode:

TurbineLauncher
TurbineElevator
TurbineInvoker
Lotroclient

I'll update if this continues to work or if the problems return.

Tobiasfrost · Sep 6, 2010

Ok, after running around a bit more and getting in some big keep fights, it is still happening occasionally. However, it's not always happening like before.

Changing it to run in compatibility mode for XP SP2 makes me really think there's some kind of driver issue making the engine hang when certain effects or something are happening within draw radius of my character.

It's a lot better now at least. Does anyone have any other ideas of things to try?

Tobiasfrost · Sep 30, 2010

Been a while since I posted here but just wanted to share something I discovered recently. Apparently there was a problem with earlier Phenom processors and a patch was developed by Microsoft that can have the side effect of lowering performance, significantly in gaming. From what I have read, despite the problem being fixed in newer Phenom versions, Windows will still enable the patch if it detects any Phenom in your rig.

There is a program to disable the patch. Some users have reported performance increases even in Windows 7 with newer Phenom models. Others notice no change. For me, I stumbled upon this when I picked up Dragon Age: Origins and it ran horribly enough that I basically considered it unplayable. After an hour or so, it would take well over 5 minutes to load a new zone, even if it was just a small one room tavern. This small program made a huge difference.

If anyone out there has a Phenom processor this article is worth a read even if you don't have any issues.

Helping Hand? Vista Service Pack 1 vs. Your Phenom - Hardware Canucks

The article is geared towards Vista but if you do a quick search for "Phenom TLB" you'll find forum discussions where Win7 users have seen improvements as well.

kuliddar · Oct 2, 2010

Don't really know what to tell ya. I've been running it with no issues on Win7 32bit. There was a bit of lag originally but it was common knowledge and I ran the defrag utility privided in LOTRO's forum and it's running super well now.

Tobiasfrost · Oct 3, 2010

I got rid of most of the severe hitching in the first place by just running in XP Service Pack 2 compatibility mode.

However, as I mentioned, I recently picked up Dragon Age: Origins and it was nearly unplayable until I discovered the article above.

Lord of the Rings Online poor performance.

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