{"id":581,"date":"2010-12-11T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2010-12-11T23:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T10:05:06","slug":"lotro-lord-of-the-rings-online-in-linux-with-wine-and-lotrolauncher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/lotro-lord-of-the-rings-online-in-linux-with-wine-and-lotrolauncher\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online) in Linux with Wine and LotroLauncher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8781ca4f97038dd0d58a1ad8af045721\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6411751809866006\";\r\n\/* BlogHorizontalSlim *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6442664612\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Turns out the other game that I play, LOTRO, also works well in Linux. It took a bit of messing around to get setup, but not too much.<\/p>\n<p>I already had the offline installer, 11GB High-Res version, from about 3 months ago when I first started playing.<\/p>\n<p>It was easy to get installed, but then updating was another matter altogether.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Install it with Wine:<\/p>\n<pre>wine MirkwoodSetup.exe<\/pre>\n<p>Now you need a different Launcher, because the default one doesn&#8217;t play nice with Linux. You can grab the GUI version and the bash version from here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmx-chemnitz.de\/~mfr\/LOTRO\/\">http:\/\/www.bmx-chemnitz.de\/~mfr\/LOTRO\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make it executable, then put the command line version in:<\/p>\n<pre><em>chmod +x lotrolauncher.script\r\n~\/.wine\/drive_c\/Program\\ Files\/Turbine\/The\\ Lord\\ of\\ the\\ Rings\\ Online\/<\/em><\/pre>\n<p>Fire it up using:<\/p>\n<pre>~\/.wine\/drive_c\/Program\\ Files\/Turbine\/The\\ Lord\\ of\\ the\\ Rings\\ Online\/lotrolauncher.script<\/pre>\n<p>It&#8217;ll ask you if you wanna update, you do, and it&#8217;ll crash. Bugger. Time to fire up Winetricks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.winehq.org\/winetricks\">http:\/\/wiki.winehq.org\/winetricks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grab winetricks and then we need a couple of files to get it running properly:<\/p>\n<pre><em>winetricks vcrun2003 vcrun2005<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal; font-size: 13px;\">\r\n<\/span><\/em><\/pre>\n<p>Great, fire it up again, and hopefully this time you can patch LOTRO!<\/p>\n<p>Once it&#8217;s successfully patched, I had to use the GUI launcher to get it to start, but after that it was all good. Performance was poor, but still playable \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Apparently you can run into other issues if using 64-bit Gentoo, but I had no issues. Still, I&#8217;ll link to the wine appdb page: <a href=\"http:\/\/appdb.winehq.org\/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=21337\">http:\/\/appdb.winehq.org\/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=21337<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may also be of use: <a href=\"http:\/\/lorebook.lotro.com\/wiki\/LOTRO_under_Linux_and_Mac_OS\/X\">http:\/\/lorebook.lotro.com\/wiki\/LOTRO_under_Linux_and_Mac_OS\/X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And lastly, this thread: <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=386480\">http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=386480<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out the other game that I play, LOTRO, also works well in Linux. It took a bit of messing around to get setup, but not too much. I already had the offline installer, 11GB High-Res version, from about 3 months ago when I first started playing. It was easy to get installed, but then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[278,105,284,283,285,280,286],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-tos-guides-tech-info","tag-gentoo","tag-linux","tag-lord-of-the-rings-online","tag-lotro","tag-lotrolauncher","tag-wine","tag-winetricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pWi3e-9n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}