Low graphic setting pics (Can anyone please post them)

MMOPLAYER321

Can somebody please give me the link or post pics of the game in low graphics settings? I google searched it and checked main website and can't find any. My friend wants me to show how the game looks on the low graphics settings because that is the only graphic setting he can play in without lag. Thank you in advance.

Alcuin

I'll check back tonight and post some.  Graphics aren't the most important thing in a game to me, but from what I hear, I'm missing a lot.

 

I figure that someday I'll be able to upgrade and see what I've been missing.  For now, I'm having fun as is.

wykkid79

Here's a comparison from lowest to ultra high settings in the same place, ascending. (6 settings total)  There is a slight camera change for the last two to capture the flying birds that show up on very and ultra high settings. I do believe I accidentally left anti-aliasing on in all the screenshots though, fyi.

http://picasaweb.google.com/liquidlearner/LotroComparison/

As you can see Medium is where the game becomes, in my opinion, playable.  There first two settings would be unbearable.  Then again, I've been playing on Ultra high for quite a long time... 

jayheld90

wow, it looks ugly in all 6 pics, what a surprise!

observer

Originally posted by wykkid79


Here's a comparison from lowest to ultra high settings in the same place, ascending. (6 settings total)  There is a slight camera change for the last two to capture the flying birds that show up on very and ultra high settings. I do believe I accidentally left anti-aliasing on in all the screenshots though, fyi.
http://picasaweb.google.com/liquidlearner/LotroComparison/
As you can see Medium is where the game becomes, in my opinion, playable.  There first two settings would be unbearable.  Then again, I've been playing on Ultra high for quite a long time... 

thanks for posting those

Meridion

Actually, even if you crank everything up to the max, the game does not become unplayable. I tried on my average rig (Ath64, 3700+, 2 gig, 7800GTX, jan06) but I could've still played it on super high, it went down to 14 frames max, most of the time running at 25, 30, so on almost all rigs that are still at least somewhere near modern, it should run well...



Meridion

darkradu

Originally posted by Meridion

I tried on my average rig (Ath64, 3700+, 2 gig, 7800GTX, jan06) but I could've still played it on super high, it went down to 14 frames max, most of the time running at 25, 30, so on almost all rigs that are still at least somewhere near modern, it should run well...

That's an average rig? What's a high-end one then?

When I played the beta, the game set my video options to low and it looked like crap + hiccuped every minute or two...set it to very low, looked like ULTRA crap (honestly, it's like playing Asheron's Call 2 *with shittier textures*! A 2007 game is looking like one from 5 years ago!

Turbine should have gotten off their asses and build a new engine...

Meridion

I can't see why? environment looks incredible even on medium, models are gorgeous, object distance with sprite fading is absolutely perfect...

And a top rig is 8x series NV or equivalent and a core duo processor... My rig is FAR from high end, one minute of Vanguard will show you. Which doesn't mean that its my rigs fault Vanguard is eating NASA computers for breakfast and still looks like crap...



Meridion

wykkid79

Originally posted by Meridion

Actually, even if you crank everything up to the max, the game does not become unplayable. I tried on my average rig (Ath64, 3700+, 2 gig, 7800GTX, jan06) but I could've still played it on super high, it went down to 14 frames max, most of the time running at 25, 30, so on almost all rigs that are still at least somewhere near modern, it should run well...



Meridion

I think you misunderstood.  By playable, I meant Medium is the absolute LOWEST setting I would consider playing the game on.  I would never play on the two lower settings.  I play at Ultra high and the game is most definately playable there.

fyi - C2D E6600, 8800GTX, 4GB Memory... And my system doesn't flinch at anything in game.

darkradu

Originally posted by Meridion

I can't see why? environment looks incredible even on medium

I've said I played it on low/very low

SlickShoes

Originally posted by darkradu

Originally posted by Meridion

I can't see why? environment looks incredible even on medium

I've said I played it on low/very low

Not to be harsh but do you really expect any game to look good when playing it on the lowest graphical settings? the settings are called LOW and VERY LOW for a reason. It will allow you to play the game but its not the way the developers intended it to be seen.

Meridion

What kind of Rig dyou have then? My PC is definitely mid-range, and I know that the game runs fine on medium on my friend's machine, which is a 2,8 GHz P4, 1 Gig, Gf6600 Series, a low end machine and almost three years old...

This game gives people with really dated rigs the possibility, to play the game decently, what would one expect more?



MEridion

iffymack

what do you think it would run like  with 1-1.5g memory and a Geforce 7600GS? would I be able to run it smoothly on medium/high?

at the moment i have a 3.2ghz P4  and a low standard 128mb radeon card,and the card along with 512mb memory just doesnt cut it in populated areas so im going to upgrade.

CognetoJoe

Originally posted by iffymack


what do you think it would run like  with 1-1.5g memory and a Geforce 7600GS? would I be able to run it smoothly on medium/high?

  High, very high , ultra high. plus use the Very high textures . Would consider trying to grab a dual core cpu now , cause the prices on newegg.com are insane .

darkradu

Originally posted by SlickShoes

Originally posted by darkradu

Originally posted by Meridion

I can't see why? environment looks incredible even on medium

I've said I played it on low/very low

Not to be harsh but do you really expect any game to look good when playing it on the lowest graphical settings? the settings are called LOW and VERY LOW for a reason. It will allow you to play the game but its not the way the developers intended it to be seen. Guild Wars came out 2 years ago, and it looks better on low than LOTRO on low...heck, even WoW looks better on low than LOTRO on low...and LOTRO came out this year...oh wait, you mean to say that Turbine are using an engine that's older than my grandma, and they have been just "updating" it instead of making a brand new engine, especially for such an important title as LOTRO?

BTW, I am ashamed to post my system specs, but here they are:

AMD Athlon 2500+/512 mb RAM/ATI Radeon 9600 128mb/80 gb Maxtor HDD

Wraithmire

Originally posted by darkradu

Originally posted by SlickShoes

Originally posted by darkradu

Originally posted by Meridion

I can't see why? environment looks incredible even on medium

I've said I played it on low/very low

Not to be harsh but do you really expect any game to look good when playing it on the lowest graphical settings? the settings are called LOW and VERY LOW for a reason. It will allow you to play the game but its not the way the developers intended it to be seen. Guild Wars came out 2 years ago, and it looks better on low than LOTRO on low...heck, even WoW looks better on low than LOTRO on low...and LOTRO came out this year...oh wait, you mean to say that Turbine are using an engine that's older than my grandma, and they have been just "updating" it instead of making a brand new engine, especially for such an important title as LOTRO?

BTW, I am ashamed to post my system specs, but here they are:

AMD Athlon 2500+/512 mb RAM/ATI Radeon 9600 128mb/80 gb Maxtor HDD this is the best troll thread I've ever seen on mmorpg.com good work A+



HAHA expecting a game these days to look good on low...man this reply I quoted and the rest of his posts he has made in this thread made my co-workers wonder what was so funny...I showed them and they all had a good laugh, man this is great.

CognetoJoe

Originally posted by darkradu



Guild Wars came out 2 years ago, and it looks better on low than LOTRO on low...heck,

This is why LotRO is technically superior, the ability to bring the graphics down to such incredible low levels insure game play to a much much broader community that have a wide variety of system specs.  Not a lot of developers take the time to create so many layers of detail for people to adjust . From Laptops to desktops, the game is playable.

wykkid79

Originally posted by darkradu

Originally posted by SlickShoes

Originally posted by darkradu

Originally posted by Meridion

I can't see why? environment looks incredible even on medium

I've said I played it on low/very low

Not to be harsh but do you really expect any game to look good when playing it on the lowest graphical settings? the settings are called LOW and VERY LOW for a reason. It will allow you to play the game but its not the way the developers intended it to be seen.Guild Wars came out 2 years ago, and it looks better on low than LOTRO on low...heck, even WoW looks better on low than LOTRO on low...and LOTRO came out this year...oh wait, you mean to say that Turbine are using an engine that's older than my grandma, and they have been just "updating" it instead of making a brand new engine, especially for such an important title as LOTRO?

BTW, I am ashamed to post my system specs, but here they are:

AMD Athlon 2500+/512 mb RAM/ATI Radeon 9600 128mb/80 gb Maxtor HDD

I hate to say it, but Low settings on WoW hardly look different from High... I mean, there is very little the graphics on WoW.  Pretty textures, but from an engine standpoint, it's horribly weak.  A good art team makes it look good, not a good engine.

Edit - forgot to mention.  For a dev to be able to take a 4-5 year old engine and update and upgrade it to the point where it's pushing top end machines even today is pretty impressive.  And it's not like it's pushing systems hard because of coding inefficiences. (ala VG)

CognetoJoe

Originally posted by wykkid79



Edit - forgot to mention.  For a dev to be able to take a 4-5 year old engine and update and upgrade it to the point where it's pushing top end machines even today is pretty impressive.  And it's not like it's pushing systems hard because of coding inefficiences. (ala VG)

Exactly .