Thought I might leave this one here in case somebody else runs into this issue: In some cases the game will revert the resolution setting back to something else when you start it next time. Like for example, in my case it always went back to 1440 although I'm playing at 2160. To fix this, you need to navigate to the lotro folder and locate the lotrolauncher executable. Right click it -> properties -> compatibility > settings > change high dpi settings. At the bottom you'll find a checkbox that allows you to specify the scaling behavior. If you set it "Application" everything should be working fine. oh and btw, thanks for all the awesome content dude :)
Having a 4k monitor, until I found this I had to play in 1080 but the text was very fuzzy. Finally someone explained how to resize the UI elements. Now I can play at my native resolution with no artifacts throwing off text. :)
@@VoiceoftheRings Having been away from the game for so long, it's nice to have recent videos updating the stuff. Is there any way to resize other elements of the UI? Like the box that pops up when you hit esc? Or the bag windows?
Voice of the Rings, Thanks for the video and the time-stamps ( a P.I.T.A., I know) were a welcome touch. I bought a mid-spec HP laptop not too long ago and re-downloaded LOTRO during the Anniversary. I was so suprised at how far I could push it before performance started to suffer, so I went nuts with it. I'm now running HDMI out to my 48'' TV and using wireless M&K from my recliner and it's just so great to play this way. Input lag from M&K are better than expected and most in-game settings are set to high. I'm even getting away with not using ethernet. I keep waiting for the end to come to this dream-come-true set-up, but so far, (knock wood) so damn good. Be well.
There is so much UI layout customization available there isn’t a need for a lot of mods. That said, I do like my own two skins which make the main map smaller (so I can steer my mount and even fight while examining the main map) and the dressing room larger (to get a better view of new outfits and gear I might buy). And I do like BuffBars to make it easier to see buffs and debuffs, and TravelWindowII to put all the travel skills in a hideable window to make more skill buttons available for combat abilities. Full Screen Windowed avoids a lot of technical issues and forces the game to ignore the game’s own resolution settings and use whatever resolution you have set for your monitor. In the olden days, running in Full Screen would provide better performance because Full Screen doesn’t require the Window Manager to get involved, but computers are so much more powerful now than they used to be that the difference is minimal. Overall Graphics Quality isn’t really a setting, it’s a group of predefined settings. It’s fine to use it to set things to get started, but you really need to go through each setting individually. And “detect optimal” can be problematic, the game is very bad at guessing what your system’s “best” settings should be. If you are running the 64-bit client (and you should be) but have 8gb or less RAM, you should have the Texture Cache Size at 0 or a very, very low setting. The game really needs available RAM to work well and if a bunch is set aside for Texture Cache Size on a system with a small amount of physical RAM temporary freezes and full crashes can result. Even on an old or inexpensive system with a low-end CPU and graphics card, see if you can enable Post Processing Effects and everything in its section. Without Post Processing Effects, water and some other surfaces just don’t look very good. With it enabled, streams and other bodies of water look natural and beautiful. It does take quite a lot of horsepower, though, and for older/low-end systems it might bring the frame rate down to unacceptable levels. In the Troubleshooting section there is an option to cap the frame rate. A frame rate higher than your monitor’s refresh rate is not doing you any good, it’s just making your computer run hotter. And since this isn’t some twitch first-person shooter, you don’t need 120fps. I can get by at 30fps and 60fps ought to be good enough for anybody. Keeping your computer from getting too hot will prolong its life and a capped frame rate will leave more CPU and GPU power available for visual quality settings.
Thanks for the video man! Definitely gonna mess around with some of these settings and find what's best! This is a useful guide for sure! What server do you play on by the way?
Haha! I'm glad the video helped you out! Ya, that's a big one! When they update the client soon sometime in 2024. I want them to make the game be able to use alot more of the computers power. It limits what it allows the pc to do since the engine is older. If they update that, the game will look better then ever to open the game to be able to use all the processing power of newer PCs.
It comes down to if you have tearing (screen with lines) or somthing. Or if it dose not seem smooth. These are settings that really you should try if things looks weird. If not, you don't have to have them on. Just turn them off and on, once to see what works
Until they give the game an interface that's designed to scale to higher resolutions it will always be a choice between blurry or tiny on anything bigger than a 1080p monitor. When you resize the scale of the UI elements you lose clarity and definition in them, which might be OK but it's not great. I'm fairly sure this issue is the single biggest thing outside server performance issues (that have gone on for years now) that are holding this game back from being much more popular.
I do want an update. Though, I will say it scales exstemely well with my 2k 1440p 32inch monitor. The only time I start seeing blur is if I blow up the skill bar and the pictures on the skills. Everything else looks wonderful. I mean you can see that in all my 2k videos. I would still not be Against an update! Would be cool! I think the lag is a bigger issue. But I will say they have done wonders to make it better in last 3 years. I still want them to make it perfect though. No lag.
Game scales well with 2K. It does not scale well with 4K The items are way too small. They just finished updating server things I believe their next goal will be things like this. The game is growing very rapidly right now and they're doing some massive updates. So you can look forward to a UI update most likely very soon.
@@VoiceoftheRings No it really doesn't scale well at 2k at all, its playable but rather unpleasant. If they do sort this and the horrendous server lag out I can't wait to get stuck into the game again.
Thanks this helped and it made me also take a closer look at my Dell 3220 monitor to get it working a little better. As a side note do you have a video or guide for solo leveling a guardian? I'm a hobby hero dad with special needs kids so my play time is very limited.
So glad it helped! I have a few video talking about leveling efficiently. But not one directly using guardians as examples but most classes can level fast as long as you stick to a path of following book and epic quests and keeping the quests on level. I have a few resent videos on that on same playlist. Thanks for nice comments! Glad it helped you out!
I've never really liked calling 1440p as "2k". I mean, 1080 is 1920x1080. That's pretty much 2k right there, and it's literally have the pixels in each dimension compared to 4k. And the 4k is referring to the "3840" in 3840x2160, right? Because it's close to 4000. Also, the games never call it 2k, and the monitor manufacturers never call it 2k. So how did we get to this point where some people call 1440p "2k"?
I don't know. I definitely didn't start it. Hahaha. But good point. It's kind of like the whole AI thing. Nothing is really AI... It's just fast computing but people start to calling at that. Hey I would be something like Cortana from Halo or data from Star Trek. Where they're at sentient level and completely independent.
For me you hold down Control, then Back slash. It's the one above Enter. I have another guide video on it on the playlist. I can't remember exact name atm
Good tips man! So, this is a 2007 game, it could be ran on a potato PC, right? If one doesn't care about 2k/4k or 100 fps, just medium settings at 20-30fps? (I'm thinking like a ten year old laptop with a crappy GPU or even integrated graphics). I know Standing Stone requirements are like a 512mb GPU but they've done tweaking since 2007?
Humm.... is it clipping under your Taskbar on windows? That is because your in windowed mode on game. But there is a setting in windows on your PC just youe Task bar settings make sure it's not set to always show over other programs. That sounds less of a lotro setting and more of a windows one. Hopefully that helps. Also, you can try alt tab then click program again. That's a good trick to fix that with all windows programs.
Ahh going to have to disagree with you. It's better then when I started 15 years ago. The game looks so great too. This is the time for new players to check it out. Great game.
Thought I might leave this one here in case somebody else runs into this issue:
In some cases the game will revert the resolution setting back to something else when you start it next time. Like for example, in my case it always went back to 1440 although I'm playing at 2160.
To fix this, you need to navigate to the lotro folder and locate the lotrolauncher executable.
Right click it -> properties -> compatibility > settings > change high dpi settings.
At the bottom you'll find a checkbox that allows you to specify the scaling behavior.
If you set it "Application" everything should be working fine.
oh and btw, thanks for all the awesome content dude :)
Thanks for that! Great additions . And thank you.
Having a 4k monitor, until I found this I had to play in 1080 but the text was very fuzzy. Finally someone explained how to resize the UI elements. Now I can play at my native resolution with no artifacts throwing off text. :)
Yay!!! Thanks for telling me it helped you out! So glad.
@@VoiceoftheRings Having been away from the game for so long, it's nice to have recent videos updating the stuff. Is there any way to resize other elements of the UI? Like the box that pops up when you hit esc? Or the bag windows?
Ummm you still can’t resize the size of the tooltips for items, the item
Logos themselves, etc. it’s still woefully lacking for high resolutions.
Voice of the Rings,
Thanks for the video and the time-stamps ( a P.I.T.A., I know) were a welcome touch. I bought a mid-spec HP laptop not too long ago and re-downloaded LOTRO during the Anniversary. I was so suprised at how far I could push it before performance started to suffer, so I went nuts with it. I'm now running HDMI out to my 48'' TV and using wireless M&K from my recliner and it's just so great to play this way. Input lag from M&K are better than expected and most in-game settings are set to high. I'm even getting away with not using ethernet. I keep waiting for the end to come to this dream-come-true set-up, but so far, (knock wood) so damn good. Be well.
Great content! Love the timestamps! This has really helped me improve the quality of my game. :)
So everything on max, nice guide m8, helpful as heck.
Glad it helped
just wonna say , i love your videos you are so happy and light hearted it makes me smile just watching your vids...ps you made me a lotro addict haha
That is so kind of you to say! Thanks so much you made my day! So glad you like lotro !!! 😀
There is so much UI layout customization available there isn’t a need for a lot of mods. That said, I do like my own two skins which make the main map smaller (so I can steer my mount and even fight while examining the main map) and the dressing room larger (to get a better view of new outfits and gear I might buy). And I do like BuffBars to make it easier to see buffs and debuffs, and TravelWindowII to put all the travel skills in a hideable window to make more skill buttons available for combat abilities.
Full Screen Windowed avoids a lot of technical issues and forces the game to ignore the game’s own resolution settings and use whatever resolution you have set for your monitor. In the olden days, running in Full Screen would provide better performance because Full Screen doesn’t require the Window Manager to get involved, but computers are so much more powerful now than they used to be that the difference is minimal.
Overall Graphics Quality isn’t really a setting, it’s a group of predefined settings. It’s fine to use it to set things to get started, but you really need to go through each setting individually. And “detect optimal” can be problematic, the game is very bad at guessing what your system’s “best” settings should be.
If you are running the 64-bit client (and you should be) but have 8gb or less RAM, you should have the Texture Cache Size at 0 or a very, very low setting. The game really needs available RAM to work well and if a bunch is set aside for Texture Cache Size on a system with a small amount of physical RAM temporary freezes and full crashes can result.
Even on an old or inexpensive system with a low-end CPU and graphics card, see if you can enable Post Processing Effects and everything in its section. Without Post Processing Effects, water and some other surfaces just don’t look very good. With it enabled, streams and other bodies of water look natural and beautiful. It does take quite a lot of horsepower, though, and for older/low-end systems it might bring the frame rate down to unacceptable levels.
In the Troubleshooting section there is an option to cap the frame rate. A frame rate higher than your monitor’s refresh rate is not doing you any good, it’s just making your computer run hotter. And since this isn’t some twitch first-person shooter, you don’t need 120fps. I can get by at 30fps and 60fps ought to be good enough for anybody. Keeping your computer from getting too hot will prolong its life and a capped frame rate will leave more CPU and GPU power available for visual quality settings.
Entertaining and informative as always, thank you! Sharing on our kin's discord!
Thank you!
Yep yep! Your welcome!
Thanks for the video man! Definitely gonna mess around with some of these settings and find what's best! This is a useful guide for sure! What server do you play on by the way?
Crickhollow! Glad guide was helpful
@@VoiceoftheRings Cool!
What really heled the most was.....Texture Cashe Size all the way up... my fps went from 45-72ish all way way up to 190 fps
Haha! I'm glad the video helped you out! Ya, that's a big one! When they update the client soon sometime in 2024. I want them to make the game be able to use alot more of the computers power. It limits what it allows the pc to do since the engine is older. If they update that, the game will look better then ever to open the game to be able to use all the processing power of newer PCs.
Hi, thanks very much for the tips, do you suggest activating Triple buffering and sync to refresh rate? Do you use them?
It comes down to if you have tearing (screen with lines) or somthing. Or if it dose not seem smooth. These are settings that really you should try if things looks weird. If not, you don't have to have them on. Just turn them off and on, once to see what works
@@VoiceoftheRings Ok, thanks
Until they give the game an interface that's designed to scale to higher resolutions it will always be a choice between blurry or tiny on anything bigger than a 1080p monitor. When you resize the scale of the UI elements you lose clarity and definition in them, which might be OK but it's not great.
I'm fairly sure this issue is the single biggest thing outside server performance issues (that have gone on for years now) that are holding this game back from being much more popular.
I do want an update. Though, I will say it scales exstemely well with my 2k 1440p 32inch monitor. The only time I start seeing blur is if I blow up the skill bar and the pictures on the skills. Everything else looks wonderful. I mean you can see that in all my 2k videos. I would still not be Against an update! Would be cool! I think the lag is a bigger issue. But I will say they have done wonders to make it better in last 3 years. I still want them to make it perfect though. No lag.
Game scales well with 2K. It does not scale well with 4K The items are way too small. They just finished updating server things I believe their next goal will be things like this. The game is growing very rapidly right now and they're doing some massive updates. So you can look forward to a UI update most likely very soon.
@@VoiceoftheRings No it really doesn't scale well at 2k at all, its playable but rather unpleasant. If they do sort this and the horrendous server lag out I can't wait to get stuck into the game again.
Thanks this helped and it made me also take a closer look at my Dell 3220 monitor to get it working a little better. As a side note do you have a video or guide for solo leveling a guardian? I'm a hobby hero dad with special needs kids so my play time is very limited.
So glad it helped! I have a few video talking about leveling efficiently. But not one directly using guardians as examples but most classes can level fast as long as you stick to a path of following book and epic quests and keeping the quests on level. I have a few resent videos on that on same playlist. Thanks for nice comments! Glad it helped you out!
I've never really liked calling 1440p as "2k". I mean, 1080 is 1920x1080. That's pretty much 2k right there, and it's literally have the pixels in each dimension compared to 4k. And the 4k is referring to the "3840" in 3840x2160, right? Because it's close to 4000.
Also, the games never call it 2k, and the monitor manufacturers never call it 2k. So how did we get to this point where some people call 1440p "2k"?
I don't know. I definitely didn't start it. Hahaha. But good point. It's kind of like the whole AI thing. Nothing is really AI... It's just fast computing but people start to calling at that. Hey I would be something like Cortana from Halo or data from Star Trek. Where they're at sentient level and completely independent.
What keys are you using to freely adjust the UI positions? I couldn't figure it out.
For me you hold down Control, then Back slash. It's the one above Enter. I have another guide video on it on the playlist. I can't remember exact name atm
Good tips man! So, this is a 2007 game, it could be ran on a potato PC, right? If one doesn't care about 2k/4k or 100 fps, just medium settings at 20-30fps? (I'm thinking like a ten year old laptop with a crappy GPU or even integrated graphics). I know Standing Stone requirements are like a 512mb GPU but they've done tweaking since 2007?
You should be able to play it on a basic thing, yes! Also, if you have a system like mine, it looks amazing! It's a win-win for an older game!
@@VoiceoftheRings Nice!! Thanx!
Really want to play this. But I can't play for long smoothly.
The size of things are too small for my myopia
I Understand .
ive noticed the anisotropic setting makes things blurry i keep mine on very sharp instead
It can depending on the pc. Good point
is the toolbar movable? my monitor is 1080p i cant see the bottom of the toolbar the exp bar
Humm.... is it clipping under your Taskbar on windows? That is because your in windowed mode on game. But there is a setting in windows on your PC just youe Task bar settings make sure it's not set to always show over other programs. That sounds less of a lotro setting and more of a windows one. Hopefully that helps. Also, you can try alt tab then click program again. That's a good trick to fix that with all windows programs.
i dont know if this is a display or a flex, lmao
Lol 😆. I mean. Sorry my PC is good? But I do talk over all the settings.
To bad the 4 k stuff dose not work well.
True. But, who knows in the future it might. Though 2k still looks good on a 4k monitor
The game looks bad now, 2008 it ws great but not it sucks and i love lord of the rings.
Ahh going to have to disagree with you. It's better then when I started 15 years ago. The game looks so great too. This is the time for new players to check it out. Great game.
Same, I love this game!👍 Thanks for guide!
Glad you enjoy it!
@@VoiceoftheRingsDoes the game have FPS lock?