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Explore the Middle Earth fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien through renowned locations including the Shire, the Mines of Moria, and Lothlórien. Customize your own character in this online MMORPG and fight alongside Dwarfs, Elves and Humans against the minions of Dark Lord Sauron. Leveling up, looting, cooperative skirmishes, exploration... its all there.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Lord Of The Rings Online in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Lord Of The Rings Online. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.6
Wine: 1.7.40
Wine Installation
Note: Versions of Wine older than 2.0.2 and Wine 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.40
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Extracting
Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.7.40 is installed and you can close this window
Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
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Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
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Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
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Setup PlayOnLinux
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "install a non-listed program"
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Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: lotro
No spaces
Click Next
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Select all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 1.7.40
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Configure Wine
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok
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Install Libraries
Check the following libraries:
Click Next
- POL_install_corefont
- POL_install_d3dx9
- POL_install_d3dx10
- POL_install_tahoma
- POL_install_vcrun2008
- POL_install_vcrun2010
- POL_install_xact
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Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Steam
Click Browse
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Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
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Click Next
Click Next
Check: I accept the license...
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Install
Click Finish
Updating Steam
More updating, extracting and installing
When Steam is done installing the login screen will pop up. You probably won't see any text because there is a font bug.
Click the "X" to close Steam login
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Lord Of The Rings Online
Click Next
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Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes the missing font and store problem
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine
Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure
Launching Steam
Select Lord Of The Rings Online
Click Run
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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs.
Click "Login to existing account"
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Search Steam for "The Lord Of The Rings Online"
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Click Play Game
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Click Next
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Uncheck both shortcut options
Click Next
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Click Finish
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Wait for Lord Of The Rings Online to download 20GB
Click Play
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Click "Yes" for high resolution data files
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Click "I Agree"
Check "I Agree"
Click Next
Click Close
Launcher Patching
Wait for the launcher to patch another 2GB
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When its finally done
Click Play
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Another license agreement
Click I Agree
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Optimization
Press Esc
Click Options
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Adjust Display:
- Resolution
- Windowed
- Fullscreen
- Aspect Ratio
- Antialiasing
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ADV Graphics
Adjust Objects:
- Draw distance
- Model Detail
- Material Detail
Ajust Scenery:
- Landscape Draw Distance
- Frill Distance
- Atmospheric Detail
Texturing:
- Texture Detail
- Texture Filtering
- Anisotrophic filter quality
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Conclusion:
Lord Of The Rings Online ran perfectly on my GeForce 550 Ti. I was able to crank all the settings to the max with a resolution of 1680x1050. The graphical quality isn't quite as high as other MMO's like Neverwinter or Age of Wushu, so it should be able to run on most laptops. To my surprise the Steam In-Game Community overlay didn't have to be disabled with Wine 1.7.40
Gameplay Video:
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