Vista - Vista and Lord of the Rings Online

Overall poor performance with this game. I have a custom machine... AMD X2
4400+ on an Asus nForce 4 SLI Premium board with 2Gigs of corsair RAM and a
nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 256. A few issues come up:

Graphical performance - likely driver linked but I'll put it here anyway.
Initially, poor FPS. With latest driver, FPS issues addressed, however now
some graphics randomly become corrupted or don't load resulting in glaring
RGB overlays.

Game Crash - on a long enough time-line (1.5-2 hours+) it is a certainty.
Game stops responding and forces a reset. What is interesting is the memory
usage, which is far beyond any program I have ever used... at times of crash
(when I access Task Manager and actually have a look), memory usage is
upwards of 1.1Gigs... that can't be right? Well, seems to be so, as it makes
even a dual-core processor sluggish on other simple tasks such as browsing
the web or Alt-Tabbing through windows.

my 2 cents

"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7A336ABD-9B46-4C28-BF62-18FDD25F4FC2@microsoft.com...
> Overall poor performance with this game. I have a custom machine... AMD X2
> 4400+ on an Asus nForce 4 SLI Premium board with 2Gigs of corsair RAM and
> a
> nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 256. A few issues come up:
>
> Graphical performance - likely driver linked but I'll put it here anyway.
> Initially, poor FPS. With latest driver, FPS issues addressed, however now
> some graphics randomly become corrupted or don't load resulting in glaring
> RGB overlays.
>
> Game Crash - on a long enough time-line (1.5-2 hours+) it is a certainty.
> Game stops responding and forces a reset. What is interesting is the
> memory
> usage, which is far beyond any program I have ever used... at times of
> crash
> (when I access Task Manager and actually have a look), memory usage is
> upwards of 1.1Gigs... that can't be right? Well, seems to be so, as it
> makes
> even a dual-core processor sluggish on other simple tasks such as browsing
> the web or Alt-Tabbing through windows.
>
> my 2 cents

LoTR Online and Vista Business and all working fine here. No FPS issues, no
crashes or lock ups no matter how long online.

Trev

E6600 OC'ed to 3.4Ghz
2Gb 800 Mhz DDR2 running @ 850
1 x WD Raptor Boot Drive
2 x Seagate 320 S-ATA2 on Stripe for software

Same for me on my system, everything on very high at 1680x1050

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"Patrician" <ghj290@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7A336ABD-9B46-4C28-BF62-18FDD25F4FC2@microsoft.com...
>> Overall poor performance with this game. I have a custom machine... AMD
>> X2
>> 4400+ on an Asus nForce 4 SLI Premium board with 2Gigs of corsair RAM and
>> a
>> nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 256. A few issues come up:
>>
>> Graphical performance - likely driver linked but I'll put it here anyway.
>> Initially, poor FPS. With latest driver, FPS issues addressed, however
>> now
>> some graphics randomly become corrupted or don't load resulting in
>> glaring
>> RGB overlays.
>>
>> Game Crash - on a long enough time-line (1.5-2 hours+) it is a certainty.
>> Game stops responding and forces a reset. What is interesting is the
>> memory
>> usage, which is far beyond any program I have ever used... at times of
>> crash
>> (when I access Task Manager and actually have a look), memory usage is
>> upwards of 1.1Gigs... that can't be right? Well, seems to be so, as it
>> makes
>> even a dual-core processor sluggish on other simple tasks such as
>> browsing
>> the web or Alt-Tabbing through windows.
>>
>> my 2 cents
>
> LoTR Online and Vista Business and all working fine here. No FPS issues,
> no crashes or lock ups no matter how long online.
>
> Trev
>
> E6600 OC'ed to 3.4Ghz
> 2Gb 800 Mhz DDR2 running @ 850
> 1 x WD Raptor Boot Drive
> 2 x Seagate 320 S-ATA2 on Stripe for software

"George" wrote:

> Overall poor performance with this game. I have a custom machine... AMD X2
> 4400+ on an Asus nForce 4 SLI Premium board with 2Gigs of corsair RAM and a
> nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 256. A few issues come up:
>
> Graphical performance - likely driver linked but I'll put it here anyway.
> Initially, poor FPS. With latest driver, FPS issues addressed, however now
> some graphics randomly become corrupted or don't load resulting in glaring
> RGB overlays.
>
> Game Crash - on a long enough time-line (1.5-2 hours+) it is a certainty.
> Game stops responding and forces a reset. What is interesting is the memory
> usage, which is far beyond any program I have ever used... at times of crash
> (when I access Task Manager and actually have a look), memory usage is
> upwards of 1.1Gigs... that can't be right? Well, seems to be so, as it makes
> even a dual-core processor sluggish on other simple tasks such as browsing
> the web or Alt-Tabbing through windows.
>
> my 2 cents

"George" wrote:

> Overall poor performance with this game. I have a custom machine... AMD X2
> 4400+ on an Asus nForce 4 SLI Premium board with 2Gigs of corsair RAM and a
> nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 256. A few issues come up:
>
> Graphical performance - likely driver linked but I'll put it here anyway.
> Initially, poor FPS. With latest driver, FPS issues addressed, however now
> some graphics randomly become corrupted or don't load resulting in glaring
> RGB overlays.
>
> Game Crash - on a long enough time-line (1.5-2 hours+) it is a certainty.
> Game stops responding and forces a reset. What is interesting is the memory
> usage, which is far beyond any program I have ever used... at times of crash
> (when I access Task Manager and actually have a look), memory usage is
> upwards of 1.1Gigs... that can't be right? Well, seems to be so, as it makes
> even a dual-core processor sluggish on other simple tasks such as browsing
> the web or Alt-Tabbing through windows.
>
> my 2 cents

Same with crashing here. Looking at the LOTRO support forums the crashing
is a known issue with systems running Vista (memory leak?). I can play for
about 30 minutes before I get the old CTD.

Sys Specs:Vista Ultimate
AMD 185 Oc'd to 3.15, ATI 1950 pro 256MB, 2GB Corsair XLL ddr400, X-FI plat.

I have had only one crash with LOTRO but after that I have not had another
bad experience with it.
the only time i get laggy is in high lag areas ie: towns never really
outside of that

"Chuck" <Chuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "George" wrote:
>
>> Overall poor performance with this game. I have a custom machine... AMD
>> X2
>> 4400+ on an Asus nForce 4 SLI Premium board with 2Gigs of corsair RAM and
>> a
>> nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 256. A few issues come up:
>>
>> Graphical performance - likely driver linked but I'll put it here anyway.
>> Initially, poor FPS. With latest driver, FPS issues addressed, however
>> now
>> some graphics randomly become corrupted or don't load resulting in
>> glaring
>> RGB overlays.
>>
>> Game Crash - on a long enough time-line (1.5-2 hours+) it is a certainty.
>> Game stops responding and forces a reset. What is interesting is the
>> memory
>> usage, which is far beyond any program I have ever used... at times of
>> crash
>> (when I access Task Manager and actually have a look), memory usage is
>> upwards of 1.1Gigs... that can't be right? Well, seems to be so, as it
>> makes
>> even a dual-core processor sluggish on other simple tasks such as
>> browsing
>> the web or Alt-Tabbing through windows.
>>
>> my 2 cents
>
> Same with crashing here. Looking at the LOTRO support forums the crashing
> is a known issue with systems running Vista (memory leak?). I can play
> for
> about 30 minutes before I get the old CTD.
>
> Sys Specs:Vista Ultimate
> AMD 185 Oc'd to 3.15, ATI 1950 pro 256MB, 2GB Corsair XLL ddr400, X-FI
> plat.