The new patch drops Tuesday!

[Mrbloodworth]

I am hopping on Wednesday night to get a few kin groups going with alts and the like, or mains if you are still in the bree-land area.

[Yegolev]

Yea, so why the hell can't I play now?

[Brogarn]

Yea, so why the hell can't I play now?

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=274288

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Had no clue this was happening today either. Damnit! I missed my pre-work morning play time. :(

[Yegolev]

It was posted late on the 19th, so maybe I need to see about setting up some sort of alert thingy.

[Yegolev]

Is there some way to get this TDM for LotRO?  I know how it works and I like it, I think, but I don't know how to get this for LotRO.  Would be nice to have it patching away while I am at work.

[Mrbloodworth]

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=274283

[Yegolev]

I have already downloaded and installed the update... so you don't know the answer to my question, I think.

[Brogarn]

I have a service running for TDM. There's a handy little icon in my systray. I'm assuming that it's just going to patch at some point today on its own. I'm also assuming it actively polls the patch server for updates, then does it automagically. I hope this is the case anyways.

This is my first Turbine patch release day ever. How are they on patch day? Should I expect many outages this evening or are they typically smooth?

[Yegolev]

The ones I have been through (Moria and since) have been relatively smooth except for large numbers of people (Brandywine is packed).  There is going to be a patch or two after this but I don't expect anything major.

[Bandit]

B-wine most likely to see queues, usually only a couple minutes wait though.  Annoying if you have the vista-64 login reset (once) bug, and have to go back into the queue.  Pro-tip: if you haven't already seen on these boards, keep clicking on the desktop during login and should avoid that initial reset.

[Yegolev]

Pro-tip: if you haven't already seen on these boards, keep clicking on the desktop during login and should avoid that initial reset.

I did not know about that.  Interesting.  Even more interesting, this problem did not occur on W7 beta but is present on W7 RC.

[Yegolev]

Thinking about leaving work early to go play.  Boss is on vacation, current projects are on hold and I'll be laid off in October.

[Brogarn]

Thinking about leaving work early to go play.  Boss is on vacation, current projects are on hold and I'll be laid off in October.

I don't even know why you paused to post. GO HOME! 

When you log on, post some stuff you're doing so I can live vicariously through you.

[Yegolev]

Updating is 52% complete.  It still takes forever even though I did the pre-install.  I'm wondering if the TDM would have done this for me?

[Brogarn]

Updating is 52% complete.  It still takes forever even though I did the pre-install.  I'm wondering if the TDM would have done this for me?

I'm hoping that's how it works. I forgot to bring up LogMeIn so I could take a look from work.

[Yegolev]

92%.  Killed some time, ripped the Persona 4 soundtrack, etc.  The first thing I'm going to do is try out the Evendim pathing.

[rattran]

Amazing amounts of space were freed up in my banking, only 1 stack of crafting components went grey. New minimap icons are odd though. And the LI runes look much cruder.

[Yegolev]

Quick:

• Boat in Evendim probably works great but I have to swim across first since it works like horses.
• Pathing in Evendim appears fixed, at least with the tomb-robbers.  This has the effect of making it noticeably more difficult to avoid dying!
• I thought all of the craft materials would say who/what they were for, but apparently not.
• I'm seeing some lag when hitting buttons on my hot bar on occasion.  One time I just stopped walking, had to move using mouse buttons then my W key started working again.
• New complaint: UI could use a "reorganize" button that stacks up everything for you.

[Soln]

I parked my main at a bank to gather the space luv once I finish patching.

has anyone tried the new UI save ability?  I'm really looking forward to that.  It could be very useful.  For example, I now run for raids in 800x600 with all spell effects and particles turned off.  The lowest of the low, and I manage 60FPS smooth.  For duo'ing I'd like to ramp that up and I'm hoping with this new feature I'll be able to switch easily.

[Yegolev]

The queues begin.

I thought the /uisave just worked on window positions.  Be sure to report back!

[rattran]

Drops seem to have been tweaked up, more yellows at the same level as the mob, and purples 3-5 levels lower.

[Brogarn]

Drops seem to have been tweaked up, more yellows at the same level as the mob, and purples 3-5 levels lower.

Noticed that too.

[Yegolev]

The thing about starting the client twice is really pissing me off when the queue is about sixty deep.

Thinking about going home early again to get on the Summer Festival stuff.  Giggity!

[Tarami]

Do it man. What are you, a communist?

[Brogarn]

Thinking about going home early again to get on the Summer Festival stuff.  Giggity!

From what you explained about your job situation above, I'm surprised you're not on "lunch break" already.

[Yegolev]

Oh hell, it's already 11am.

I'll get more free coffee here, look up a few things I have been meaning to, then I'll head out.

[rattran]

The thing about starting the client twice is really pissing me off when the queue is about sixty deep.

Thinking about going home early again to get on the Summer Festival stuff.  Giggity!

People keep talking of this, but I've only ever had to start the client two times once, and I think that was a bad patch. I launch it in win7x64, let it sit in queue while I noodle around the interweb, screen goes black then pops up the annoying splash screens. I'm using ati, is it an nvidia thing?

[Tarami]

I'm running Vista 64 with an nVidia and don't have queue issues. It sometimes crashes on launch when I run it in DX10, but if I'm quick and give focus to the window as it appears, it doesn't happen.

[Yegolev]

It does have something to do with window focus, that much is clear.  I'm using an Nvidia 9800 GTX+, so maybe it is an Nvidia thing.  I believe Nija said something about running it in windowed mode, but I don't recall.  It's not really a problem as long as I don't have to worry about queues.

[Yegolev]

I think if you have to bring down the server, it's not a hotfix.  I could be wrong.

[Bandit]

It does have something to do with window focus, that much is clear.  I'm using an Nvidia 9800 GTX+, so maybe it is an Nvidia thing.  I believe Nija said something about running it in windowed mode, but I don't recall.  It's not really a problem as long as I don't have to worry about queues.

I think it is definitely something to do with operating systems, as I have a ATI card.  The work-around does not work for you? It has worked flawlessly for me, just keep clicking on the desktop after you input log-in information and you should be golden.

Haven't been able to log-in due to time constraints to try out book 8.  I was hoping to get on last night and join bloodworth's bree group, but central air-conditioning installation has taken priority.

[Brogarn]

I think if you have to bring down the server, it's not a hotfix.  I could be wrong.

Hehe.

[Tarami]

I think if you have to bring down the server, it's not a hotfix.  I could be wrong.

Anyway, the festival races are so simple, yet so awesome.

[Ard]

Anyway, the festival races are so simple, yet so awesome.

Yeah, I definitely prefer this method to the horse race method.  It's no longer gated to 4 people per 10 minutes.  I wonder if this is what they were trying to do with the Spring Festival that broke.

[Yegolev]

I think it is definitely something to do with operating systems, as I have a ATI card.  The work-around does not work for you? It has worked flawlessly for me, just keep clicking on the desktop after you input log-in information and you should be golden.

Quite the opposite, if I click on the game form as it opens (right as the screen turns black) then I'm golden.  Clicking on the desktop gives focus to that form (desktop is a windows form also) and did not work for me.  Thanks to Tarami for the idea.

As for the Book 8... I'm seeing that I now suddenly stop moving for no apparent reason.  I have always been able to get going again either with W or LM+RM, but it's annoying.  May or may not occur at zone lines; I don't know where most of those are.  I'm also getting some slight performance hitches which will probably be solved by a defrag or two after I have played using the new files, but I can't say.