Lord of the rings online.

[firestorm84]

Any update on this PawPaw? If needed, I can help test/debug anything. Cheers!

[PawPaw]

Any update on this PawPaw? If needed, I can help test/debug anything. Cheers!

sent you a pm

[Nuker]

Hey all.. i am new to ambx as i just picked up a premium kit and just started to use it. First off let me say I LOVE IT.. it's friggin awesome.

I'm playing LOTRO myself and am running 64bit vista... for those of you having the same problem i had the easiest fix would be to find the file:

lotroclient.exe

in your install directory of LOTRO and right click properties. Set compatibility mode to xp sp2 and then ambx should work like a charm in game.

I'm not sure why the moderators here are PMing everyone but if i wasn't allowed to post that fix then please delete this post and i will stop posting fixes for other games!

[firestorm84]

Thanks for the update - that is an ingenious idea. I will give that a whirl tonight and post my results. I think the PMs were sent since the solutions recommended were untested. Cheers!

[PawPaw]

Nuker, thats a very interesting idea and one i'll be checking out on another Title with a similar problem. Your ideas and fixes are always very welcome. The pm's i have sent have been in reply to questions not always related to the actual post. Look forward to hear if this fix helps you out firestorm84

[firestorm84]

Well, this absolutely works. Also, this mode works better than most games I have seen where ambx is native. Tested this with Vista 32-bit. HOWEVER - this disables all of the Dx10 Eye Candy since it thinks it is WinXp and not Vista. Also, I am noticing a performance hit (as expected) of about 25% in FPS. I will see if I can hack the registry of the game to over-ride the DX10 limit to turn the graphics settings back on. I will post once I try the registry. Cheers!

[firestorm84]

So I tested this further tonight. It looks like the reason it was not working was just the DX10.

Testing Steps:
1. Ensure running in normal Vista mode - running with DX9 codecs: ambx lights work perfectly
2. Change to Dx10 and restart game: ambx lights stop working all together

Did a little google crawling I think that DX10 is not yet supported except for games with native ambx support. I hope the developers roll out a fix to enable non-native support for DX10 as well as this has some notable improvements over DX 9.

Bottom line:
amBX will work with LOTRO - just uncheck DX10 option or run in XP SP2 compatibility mode.
I hope the developers will support DX10 in the near future

Cheers!

[Nuker]

sweet good job man... i figured it might have been dx10 or just something with vista. right now i don't know whats better.. the pretty lights... or the pretty lights if you know what i mean

[PawPaw]

Well done you guys.Thanks for replying and offering a solution.

[Tasker]

Hi guys,

great work figuring this one out. We'll look into why DX10 is throwing up these problems. Hopefully we'll have some solution/answers to give you in the not too distant future.

Thanks,

Tasker

[daeng]

Hi there...

i'd like to ask if anything happened in the meantime?

In My Configuration I'm getting The Lights to work with LOTRO (yes, DX10) if I don't update the driver I downloaded from the ambx homepage a few weeks ago. After any update, the lights stop working with DX10...

btw, i have vista64....

I'll try to post the working driver version, when I'm at home tonight...

[Langaleer]

It shouldnt matter if its DX10 or not with the later updates, what matters now is if its 64-bit client or not.

[firestorm84]

So the DX10 is now working for 32 bit installations of LOTRO?! That would be great news! I will have to try it out. Cheers!

[Lorr]

I am now using Windows 7 64bit. If I play LOTRO without DirectX 10 turned on, the lights work perfectly. If I turn on any of the DirectX 10 options, the lights don't work with the game at all.

I don't think I have any other DirectX 10 games to test if it's related to just LOTRO or DirectX 10 in general.

Any ideas?

[daeng]

any updates concerning LOTRO? Now using Windows 7 64bit... still waiting for DX10 support by the ambx driver...