This is very helpful but I think the main issue that a lot of higher resolution folks have - I'm running 1440p (2560 x 1600 / 16:10 ) but I downgrade to 1080p (1920 x 1080 / 16:9) when I play LOTRO - is that even when we scale the UI and the text and all that, certain UI elements (the inventory, the character pane, the other panels) don't scale. It can make it almost impossible to see what's going on with those panels.
Indeed. I am not sure if there are re skins you can use for that. But I also would like them to update the smaller icons and inventory. I have no issue with them on my 2K monitor but 4K is pretty much impossible to read anything. I bet you that'll be one of their next projects. Since we just got brand new 64-bit servers
Bunch of random comments: -3:15 DirectX 11 is always better except in a very few cases related to specific video hardware and drivers which have compatibility issues with DX11 and LOTRO. Do not believe the people who claim that running in DX10 or DX9 makes the game run better, this is not true. The reason those people think that isn’t because they’re dumb, it’s because DX11 provides the OPTION of additional eye candy which of course requires more processing power and can result in lower frame rates. It’s better to turn down or disable those specific graphics settings than to use DX10 or DX9 and doing so will have the same positive impact on fps while allowing the game to make use of the DX11 API. -3:35 Zollin knows this but glossed over it quickly in the video: OVERALL GRAPHICS SETTINGS is not a setting, it is a predefined group of settings (a “preset”). Adjusting Overall Graphics Settings is the same as making adjustments to many settings all at once, but you have to use the predefined presets. It is not possible to save a custom preset. Just as LOTRO’s ability to detect and determine the optimal settings for your rig are not very good, the presets will also often not be very good for your specific rig. It’s fine to start with one of the presets but you really ought to then go through each setting individually and experiment to determine what gives you the best results for your specific rig. -5:10 While 16:9 is the most common aspect ratio for modern TVs and computer monitors, many people use “ultra-wide” displays or have laptop screens with some semi-random aspect ratio which just happens to fit the size the manufacturer chose to use for that device’s screen. Leave the ASPECT RATIO setting on AUTO unless you have a good reason to not do so. If your monitor is 16:9 then the AUTO setting will have the game generate output at 16:9. -6:20 While of course higher settings are always better looking, they can also result in lower frame rates and higher heat generation. Antialiasing makes an enormous difference in the visual quality of 3D objects so even if your hardware is modest you should set this at 2x. Anything higher than that has diminishing returns, i.e. your computer has to work MORE than twice as hard to deliver 4x Antialiasing as it does to deliver 2x Antialiasing. You might not notice or only barely notice the difference between 2x and 16x, but you will notice the difference between 2x and Antialiasing completely disabled. This is a good setting to reduce if you need to sacrifice a little visual quality to keep your laptop from China syndrome or to maintain a playable framerate. -7:20 The various light and gamma settings are available in Full Screen, Full Screen Windowed, and Windowed mode. At least, they are on every rig on which I’ve played LOTRO. Perhaps there’s something about Zollin’s setup that prevents these settings from working for him in Full Screen Windowed. The maximum Ambient Light setting seems to work well for Zollin’s recordings but I find it can wash out colors and make some scenes too bright which makes things appear unnatural. A little bump over the default is OK and makes it easier to see landscape features in dark places such as Moria; I use 0.3 instead of the default 0.0. -10:14 Be careful with Texture Cache Size. This uses your computer’s system RAM (not your VRAM) to cache textures for faster swapping to your graphics card, reducing the amount of data that has to be read on the fly for your storage drive - even a very fast SSD is much slower than system RAM. But if your rig does not have a lot of RAM, setting this all the way to the right can result in instability; the game will be more prone to crash. Remember that Windows (or whatever your OS might be) uses RAM, the 64-bit client needs 5.5gb of RAM for stable operation, and any other application you are running (a web browser, Discord, screen capture software…) and all your background tasks require RAM, too. If you have 16gb or more system RAM you should be OK to max this setting as long as you don’t go crazy with multiple applications or dozens of browser tabs. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of computers being sold with 8gb or even less RAM and if you have one of those you might want to keep this setting low or even all the way to the left (disabled). If you need to reduce some settings to try to get your frame rate up to an acceptable level: -Antialiasing=2x -Environment Stencil Shadows=disabled (barely noticeable but a HUGE performance boost in some areas) -DX10 Dynamic Shadows=Low or Off (try not to go all the way to Off unless you really have to) -Object Draw Distance, as low as you can stand it (very big performance difference but also very big visual quality difference) -Landscape Draw Distance, as low as you can stand it (outdoors or in very large indoor areas a HUGE performance vs quality difference, in most indoor areas makes no difference at all)
The fact LotRO even still supports dx9 or 32 bit shows how woefully inept SSG is at bringing their games into the current day. All of Daybreak's mmos have been upgraded under the hood and gotten rid of DX9 and 32bit, except for LotRO and DDO that depend on SSG to do the work. Gonna be fun here real soon, as dx9 and 32bit will have no support n the next Windows OS and are already considered deprecated by Microsoft as of Windows 10's end-of-life. And no, noone cares if people who refuse to upgrade becuase they're perfectly satisfied with their 15 year old malware infested security risk PC's leave, they're quite honestly and quite directly holding the game hostage by demanding to be catered to.
You can use the little Aa in the bottom of the text boxes to blow up the text there's two little up and down arrows. Sad partition got to do it every single time you log it. I bet you they're going to update this sooner or later.
Thanks for the help. I’ve always wanted to get into this game but the hard graphics were always a hard sell. It’s not pristine but definitely good enough to play this game
Follow-up question - I am playing on a 4K monitor and set to Full Screen (Windowed) as recommended. This sets resolution to 3840x2160 and everything looks awesome! That said, is there any way to increase the size of the utility windows (Inventory Bag, Quest Log (the log itself not the list on the screen), Option windows, etc...). Based on some of the searches I have been doing, it looks like no but wanted to check with you before I go back to Windowed and crank the resolution down a bit. Thanks!
So right now the game looks really good on 1080 and 2K. But they haven't done an update yet to bump it up where it isn't super small for 4K. But I think that's probably on their list to do after they finish with the server updates that they're working on right now at the time of this comment. Also little trick when it comes to quests and the questlog there's a little thing in the bottom right and bottom left corner respectfully that has a little Aa with two arrows. This will allow you to scale up the actual words for your screen. You may want to scale down and play it 2K with the UI. I find that to look the best on my system with my huge monitor. There might also be a plug-in which I have not found that will scale those things up though. If I find one in the future I'll let you know. But my guess is they will update this before I find that. Thanks for comment! 😎👍
One tip is to use Reshade to fine tune your graphics even more. It might be nice to have some more HDR like images and ambient occlusion might be also possible to adjust.
Great video, thank you! One thing I can’t seem to find anywhere is how to enlarge the windows with small text such as the quest log, dialogue boxes, backpack/character page etc. the UI scale doesn’t have any way to blow these up that I can tell. Any recommendations on that issue?
At the bottom right of the questlog or quest itself there's a little Aa with two arrows. Press up on that arrow a couple times and it'll enlarge all the words. Also if it doesn't seem to work click down once on the arrow and then click up again and it should fix it.
@@VoiceoftheRings Ah thank you, that definitely helps the quest log text. From what I gather I don’t think it’s possible at the moment to blow up the backpack windows and character window etc. I’m also running on 2k and I think not easily seeing the items in the backpack is my biggest gripe.
Thank you for this video! I just started playing lotro (today) and was having some issues getting things set up. Is there anything to be done with text / font changes? Its just a bit to blurry and small .
There might be a skin overlay for it. I only play on a 2K monitor. 4K is going to be extremely small... Unfortunately I do not have a fix for that particular thing. But I would check for some kind of overlay because the game has a really good built-in overlay mod system.
Look at bottom right when you have a quest up or in the log book. It's a small aA in the corner with two arrows. Click the up arrow a few times. To enlarge. If it does not work instantly go up and down once with arrows.
You're going to have to scale up some of the icon things which are going to look slightly blurrier on a 4K. Also there's a few things that are not going to be able to be fixed with the regular settings like your inventory will be really tiny. There possibly might be some additions or or reskin you can use with the lotro system to make them bigger. But until I find a one. Then I will show you all. I also have a feeling they will update that sooner or later since they're working on 64-bit servers right now
Voice - 4k menus are still small - No settings to increase menus sizes - have to use glasses to read menus. I have all the other UI stuff fixed (i.e. Mini-Map, toolbars, etc
You need to click the little Aa in the corner. separately on the quest log and separately on the quest. One frustrating thing is that it will reset when you log out. But it only takes a few clicks. But. Once you're logged in and done that every single quest you click on will be bigger
There are ways you can do it. You could totally just grind skirmishes which are a type of dungeon and epic battles and a couple other things and get XP that way. You could also do crafting if you like that kind of stuff. It will take you a little bit longer but it is possible. Technically you could also buy what's called a valor boost. Those come out occasionally in their special LOTRO store. They will boost you to a certain level automatically. But obviously you're going to have to pay real money for that item. Hope that helps
Hummm... That dose not sound right. Something is glitching with settings. Did you check your monitor and graphics card settings themselves? Also, then did you check the over all graphic settings to check v sync etc? I don't think it's lotro making it do 30 fps. That would be a setting outside the game I believe.
This is a issue that I believe they will be updating soon. It's fine for 2k. But moment you hit 4k bag items don't scale. You may be able to find a plug in and if I find one I'll let you guys know.
That's just not the case. When people say that, I am not sure what they are comparing it too. But most all who say that just have not played the game enough to know. Thanks for the thanks for video though 😁
The inaccurate, outdated map with no npc labels indoors. The lack of proper nameplates that show health, buffs, debuffs etc. You can't adjust or move buffs, debuffs on the player or target unit frame. The resolution scaling issues with skill icons. You can't zoom out or in with the minimap. Not to mention, all of this is hidden by the api. So you can't fix it with add-ons. This is just off the top of my head
Not sure why you keep talking about graphic cards when it’s a well known fact that LOTROs performance issues are due to it being single-core only. So if you want a performance boost, get a strong single core CPU, not a new graphics card. Usually with LOTRO the GPU idles somewhere around 30 percent while the CPU is doing all the heavy lifting on its own
That's partially true. The graphics cards indeed make a difference. I have tested it with four graphics cards to be sure. On the same monitor mind you. Also the single core issue has to do with some of the problems yes. But a single core today on a new CPU. Is more powerful than like 30 single cores from 10 years ago. So that's becoming less and less of an issue. For me who has one of the best CPUs there is for personal use. I never even have an issue with that. My single core is always working fine. Now granted if they updated the system to be able to use more cores that would be fantastic. But as cores are getting better that's going to be less important. Better technology is awesome. And also the CPU core does the processing of what's happening. The visual fidelity and graphical look is still mostly being done by the graphics card. That's just how engines and computers work. I'm not saying you're incorrect. I'm just saying there's a couple preferences I would give to your statement. What I said here is a little closer. Yes what I said about graphics card does indeed help. But yes CPU is also important. The heavy lifting you imply. Is mainly talking about the processing that does slightly do the processing to send the visuals to the graphics card. The actual visual rendering is still done by the graphics card. Thanks for your comment.
@@VoiceoftheRings the thing is, I tested it too. Upgraded my old 1060 to a 6700xt a little while ago (I know, not the best, but that’s the most my budget would let me do 🥹) and it changed nearly nothing. My CPU is a 5600x so also not the very best. All I’m saying is that for me, changing GPUs did nothing since my CPU stayed the same
Hello, great vid just i have question i got really old pc with 8gb ram ddr3 i7 2600 3,2ghz and some 710 2gb gpu so i want ask what i need to play Lotro to looks like you ???
You really just need to have a pretty decent CPU since a lot of it is in that and a decent graphics card. The game doesn't really take that much. Now if you have the top of the line everything you will probably see small percent changes in quality. But if you get something that is just a lot better than what you have you'll see a major change.
Happy Father's Day all! (The day I posted this video). 🎉😊
I love your energy. Great video. The UI is my end game boss that I must defeat first.
Thanks so much for the video, now I can play Lord of the ring online again without blurry screen
This is very helpful but I think the main issue that a lot of higher resolution folks have - I'm running 1440p (2560 x 1600 / 16:10 ) but I downgrade to 1080p (1920 x 1080 / 16:9) when I play LOTRO - is that even when we scale the UI and the text and all that, certain UI elements (the inventory, the character pane, the other panels) don't scale. It can make it almost impossible to see what's going on with those panels.
Indeed. I am not sure if there are re skins you can use for that. But I also would like them to update the smaller icons and inventory. I have no issue with them on my 2K monitor but 4K is pretty much impossible to read anything. I bet you that'll be one of their next projects. Since we just got brand new 64-bit servers
For the UI Layout command:
Using the German client it would be
/benutzeroberfläche aussehen speichern NAME
Thank you! Just started playing and very happy to have found your video...UI isn't as scary now..just a little bit haha...thanks great video!
Glad it helped! Also don't forget you can move stuff around on the screen with control /.
Bunch of random comments:
-3:15 DirectX 11 is always better except in a very few cases related to specific video hardware and drivers which have compatibility issues with DX11 and LOTRO. Do not believe the people who claim that running in DX10 or DX9 makes the game run better, this is not true. The reason those people think that isn’t because they’re dumb, it’s because DX11 provides the OPTION of additional eye candy which of course requires more processing power and can result in lower frame rates. It’s better to turn down or disable those specific graphics settings than to use DX10 or DX9 and doing so will have the same positive impact on fps while allowing the game to make use of the DX11 API.
-3:35 Zollin knows this but glossed over it quickly in the video: OVERALL GRAPHICS SETTINGS is not a setting, it is a predefined group of settings (a “preset”). Adjusting Overall Graphics Settings is the same as making adjustments to many settings all at once, but you have to use the predefined presets. It is not possible to save a custom preset. Just as LOTRO’s ability to detect and determine the optimal settings for your rig are not very good, the presets will also often not be very good for your specific rig. It’s fine to start with one of the presets but you really ought to then go through each setting individually and experiment to determine what gives you the best results for your specific rig.
-5:10 While 16:9 is the most common aspect ratio for modern TVs and computer monitors, many people use “ultra-wide” displays or have laptop screens with some semi-random aspect ratio which just happens to fit the size the manufacturer chose to use for that device’s screen. Leave the ASPECT RATIO setting on AUTO unless you have a good reason to not do so. If your monitor is 16:9 then the AUTO setting will have the game generate output at 16:9.
-6:20 While of course higher settings are always better looking, they can also result in lower frame rates and higher heat generation. Antialiasing makes an enormous difference in the visual quality of 3D objects so even if your hardware is modest you should set this at 2x. Anything higher than that has diminishing returns, i.e. your computer has to work MORE than twice as hard to deliver 4x Antialiasing as it does to deliver 2x Antialiasing. You might not notice or only barely notice the difference between 2x and 16x, but you will notice the difference between 2x and Antialiasing completely disabled. This is a good setting to reduce if you need to sacrifice a little visual quality to keep your laptop from China syndrome or to maintain a playable framerate.
-7:20 The various light and gamma settings are available in Full Screen, Full Screen Windowed, and Windowed mode. At least, they are on every rig on which I’ve played LOTRO. Perhaps there’s something about Zollin’s setup that prevents these settings from working for him in Full Screen Windowed. The maximum Ambient Light setting seems to work well for Zollin’s recordings but I find it can wash out colors and make some scenes too bright which makes things appear unnatural. A little bump over the default is OK and makes it easier to see landscape features in dark places such as Moria; I use 0.3 instead of the default 0.0.
-10:14 Be careful with Texture Cache Size. This uses your computer’s system RAM (not your VRAM) to cache textures for faster swapping to your graphics card, reducing the amount of data that has to be read on the fly for your storage drive - even a very fast SSD is much slower than system RAM. But if your rig does not have a lot of RAM, setting this all the way to the right can result in instability; the game will be more prone to crash. Remember that Windows (or whatever your OS might be) uses RAM, the 64-bit client needs 5.5gb of RAM for stable operation, and any other application you are running (a web browser, Discord, screen capture software…) and all your background tasks require RAM, too. If you have 16gb or more system RAM you should be OK to max this setting as long as you don’t go crazy with multiple applications or dozens of browser tabs. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of computers being sold with 8gb or even less RAM and if you have one of those you might want to keep this setting low or even all the way to the left (disabled).
If you need to reduce some settings to try to get your frame rate up to an acceptable level:
-Antialiasing=2x
-Environment Stencil Shadows=disabled (barely noticeable but a HUGE performance boost in some areas)
-DX10 Dynamic Shadows=Low or Off (try not to go all the way to Off unless you really have to)
-Object Draw Distance, as low as you can stand it (very big performance difference but also very big visual quality difference)
-Landscape Draw Distance, as low as you can stand it (outdoors or in very large indoor areas a HUGE performance vs quality difference, in most indoor areas makes no difference at all)
The fact LotRO even still supports dx9 or 32 bit shows how woefully inept SSG is at bringing their games into the current day. All of Daybreak's mmos have been upgraded under the hood and gotten rid of DX9 and 32bit, except for LotRO and DDO that depend on SSG to do the work. Gonna be fun here real soon, as dx9 and 32bit will have no support n the next Windows OS and are already considered deprecated by Microsoft as of Windows 10's end-of-life. And no, noone cares if people who refuse to upgrade becuase they're perfectly satisfied with their 15 year old malware infested security risk PC's leave, they're quite honestly and quite directly holding the game hostage by demanding to be catered to.
NICE! this was exactly what I was lookinhg for
Awesome, thank you!
This Was amazing! Thank you so much! This made my Lord of the rings online journey so much easier!!
Glad it helped!
Great video, thank you
Well done this man
I play on a 4k TV, and the problem I am having trying to start playing the game is the text is microscopic to the point of unreadable.
You can use the little Aa in the bottom of the text boxes to blow up the text there's two little up and down arrows. Sad partition got to do it every single time you log it. I bet you they're going to update this sooner or later.
Thanks for the help. I’ve always wanted to get into this game but the hard graphics were always a hard sell. It’s not pristine but definitely good enough to play this game
Glad you're going to give it a try!
Thanks for this vid. Was soooooo helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much. Great stuff
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks, Great video
Glad you liked it!
thank you for the video.
This video was awesome. Thank you!!!
Follow-up question - I am playing on a 4K monitor and set to Full Screen (Windowed) as recommended. This sets resolution to 3840x2160 and everything looks awesome! That said, is there any way to increase the size of the utility windows (Inventory Bag, Quest Log (the log itself not the list on the screen), Option windows, etc...). Based on some of the searches I have been doing, it looks like no but wanted to check with you before I go back to Windowed and crank the resolution down a bit. Thanks!
You are so welcome!
So right now the game looks really good on 1080 and 2K. But they haven't done an update yet to bump it up where it isn't super small for 4K. But I think that's probably on their list to do after they finish with the server updates that they're working on right now at the time of this comment. Also little trick when it comes to quests and the questlog there's a little thing in the bottom right and bottom left corner respectfully that has a little Aa with two arrows. This will allow you to scale up the actual words for your screen. You may want to scale down and play it 2K with the UI. I find that to look the best on my system with my huge monitor. There might also be a plug-in which I have not found that will scale those things up though. If I find one in the future I'll let you know. But my guess is they will update this before I find that. Thanks for comment! 😎👍
One tip is to use Reshade to fine tune your graphics even more. It might be nice to have some more HDR like images and ambient occlusion might be also possible to adjust.
I just found reshade and love it
Great video, thank you! One thing I can’t seem to find anywhere is how to enlarge the windows with small text such as the quest log, dialogue boxes, backpack/character page etc. the UI scale doesn’t have any way to blow these up that I can tell. Any recommendations on that issue?
At the bottom right of the questlog or quest itself there's a little Aa with two arrows. Press up on that arrow a couple times and it'll enlarge all the words. Also if it doesn't seem to work click down once on the arrow and then click up again and it should fix it.
@@VoiceoftheRings Ah thank you, that definitely helps the quest log text. From what I gather I don’t think it’s possible at the moment to blow up the backpack windows and character window etc. I’m also running on 2k and I think not easily seeing the items in the backpack is my biggest gripe.
Thank you for this video! I just started playing lotro (today) and was having some issues getting things set up.
Is there anything to be done with text / font changes? Its just a bit to blurry and small .
Yes click the aA at the bottom. Of the text boxes will make it big!
offers a masterclass in finessing the graphic settings for the best experience... tldr - everything all the way up.
Hey .... I clearly explained a bunch of things you would need in different situations... Mr. Smarty. 🤓 Haha
How can increase UI size bar of my inventory. It looks so tiny on 4k cant even read it. Same goes for option window
There might be a skin overlay for it. I only play on a 2K monitor. 4K is going to be extremely small... Unfortunately I do not have a fix for that particular thing. But I would check for some kind of overlay because the game has a really good built-in overlay mod system.
My questlog. Specialization menu and overall text are too small to a 2k monitor. Where do i can increase this size? Pls...
Look at bottom right when you have a quest up or in the log book. It's a small aA in the corner with two arrows. Click the up arrow a few times. To enlarge. If it does not work instantly go up and down once with arrows.
@@VoiceoftheRings i will try
Would same suggestions for settings apply when running in 4k resolution with 4k monitor?
You're going to have to scale up some of the icon things which are going to look slightly blurrier on a 4K. Also there's a few things that are not going to be able to be fixed with the regular settings like your inventory will be really tiny. There possibly might be some additions or or reskin you can use with the lotro system to make them bigger. But until I find a one. Then I will show you all. I also have a feeling they will update that sooner or later since they're working on 64-bit servers right now
Voice - 4k menus are still small - No settings to increase menus sizes - have to use glasses to read menus. I have all the other UI stuff fixed (i.e. Mini-Map, toolbars, etc
That's... Not what I said 😑 haha
i have used the fullscreen windows and my quests are not to the right hand side is this somthig i can chnage
Use the control backslash. Should be able to move them around on the screen.
How did you increase the font size in the chat window?
With the little Aa in bottom corner of quest box ! Two small arrows next to it.
@@VoiceoftheRings I was referring to the Chat Window. I use the Aa in the Quest window.
I thought I saw your World Chat Window to have increase font
now when i open a quest the text is really small and the text box writing is small
You need to click the little Aa in the corner. separately on the quest log and separately on the quest. One frustrating thing is that it will reset when you log out. But it only takes a few clicks. But.
Once you're logged in and done that every single quest you click on will be bigger
Can i play this game if i dont really like questing? I Would like to skip as much as possible and start doing dungeons or grind mobs is it possible?
There are ways you can do it. You could totally just grind skirmishes which are a type of dungeon and epic battles and a couple other things and get XP that way. You could also do crafting if you like that kind of stuff. It will take you a little bit longer but it is possible. Technically you could also buy what's called a valor boost. Those come out occasionally in their special LOTRO store. They will boost you to a certain level automatically. But obviously you're going to have to pay real money for that item. Hope that helps
@@VoiceoftheRings thx for answer, right nów cap lvl is 50 lvl on new serwer, do You know when they increase lvl cap and add expansion?
@@PoProstuRylu This is not world of Wacraft, there is no rush in this game
@@PoProstuRylumordo to nie metin
THE OPTIONS MENU IS SO SMALL I CAN'T EVEN READ IT ON 4K
Ya, just don't use 4k. I assume they will be updating the UI SOON. Since they are doing the 64 bit servers ATM. Game looks fine with UI at 2k.
@@VoiceoftheRings thanks
Why hello! 🎉
i have rtx 3060 and on highest settings i have 30 fps, how can i fix that?
Hummm... That dose not sound right. Something is glitching with settings. Did you check your monitor and graphics card settings themselves? Also, then did you check the over all graphic settings to check v sync etc? I don't think it's lotro making it do 30 fps. That would be a setting outside the game I believe.
@@VoiceoftheRings i have 30 when there is a lot on screen for example in tutorial. When i tourn around there to not look at the action it caps to 100
too bad you cannot scale the inventory - that thing is such a horrible eyesore at 4k
Ya, I think they will be updating that very soon.
@@VoiceoftheRings Only been waiting for about 10 years at this point 🫠
ok but how do i make my bag bigger
This is a issue that I believe they will be updating soon. It's fine for 2k. But moment you hit 4k bag items don't scale. You may be able to find a plug in and if I find one I'll let you guys know.
"The UI is really good" WHAT DO YA MEAN!?! ITS AWFUL!. All jokes aside, great video. Thanks!
That's just not the case. When people say that, I am not sure what they are comparing it too. But most all who say that just have not played the game enough to know. Thanks for the thanks for video though 😁
Compared to what? Looks like a classic mmo which it is, not dumbed down for console players or goofy bubbly like wow
The inaccurate, outdated map with no npc labels indoors. The lack of proper nameplates that show health, buffs, debuffs etc. You can't adjust or move buffs, debuffs on the player or target unit frame. The resolution scaling issues with skill icons. You can't zoom out or in with the minimap. Not to mention, all of this is hidden by the api. So you can't fix it with add-ons. This is just off the top of my head
the masterclass lesson is get the 2k monitor. thank you. noted.
Yes! If you want to play on 2k...
TLDR:
Choose "Overall Graphics Quality: Ultra High" and that's it.
Not completely! Make sure you drag up the cash bar. Turning up to just ultra high will not do this.
Not sure why you keep talking about graphic cards when it’s a well known fact that LOTROs performance issues are due to it being single-core only. So if you want a performance boost, get a strong single core CPU, not a new graphics card. Usually with LOTRO the GPU idles somewhere around 30 percent while the CPU is doing all the heavy lifting on its own
That's partially true. The graphics cards indeed make a difference. I have tested it with four graphics cards to be sure. On the same monitor mind you. Also the single core issue has to do with some of the problems yes. But a single core today on a new CPU. Is more powerful than like 30 single cores from 10 years ago. So that's becoming less and less of an issue. For me who has one of the best CPUs there is for personal use. I never even have an issue with that. My single core is always working fine. Now granted if they updated the system to be able to use more cores that would be fantastic. But as cores are getting better that's going to be less important. Better technology is awesome. And also the CPU core does the processing of what's happening. The visual fidelity and graphical look is still mostly being done by the graphics card. That's just how engines and computers work. I'm not saying you're incorrect. I'm just saying there's a couple preferences I would give to your statement. What I said here is a little closer. Yes what I said about graphics card does indeed help. But yes CPU is also important. The heavy lifting you imply. Is mainly talking about the processing that does slightly do the processing to send the visuals to the graphics card. The actual visual rendering is still done by the graphics card. Thanks for your comment.
@@VoiceoftheRings the thing is, I tested it too. Upgraded my old 1060 to a 6700xt a little while ago (I know, not the best, but that’s the most my budget would let me do 🥹) and it changed nearly nothing. My CPU is a 5600x so also not the very best. All I’m saying is that for me, changing GPUs did nothing since my CPU stayed the same
@@VoiceoftheRings What is your CPU and GPU?
why would you make this whole video and not even give a video demonstration of the result?
What? 😅 Are you joking? It's literally shown to you the entire video... 😆🫠👍
Lol, how to make Lotro look amazing, just turn everything on high. Thanks...jeez...
You didn't watch the whole video... Lol.
Hello, great vid just i have question i got really old pc with 8gb ram ddr3 i7 2600 3,2ghz and some 710 2gb gpu so i want ask what i need to play Lotro to looks like you ???
You really just need to have a pretty decent CPU since a lot of it is in that and a decent graphics card. The game doesn't really take that much. Now if you have the top of the line everything you will probably see small percent changes in quality. But if you get something that is just a lot better than what you have you'll see a major change.