i just started 3 weeks ago...i play on ultra hi dx9, i dont have vista so i havent tried dx10....but i dont get any hitching what so ever
Thank you...that is a reasonable response as well. I wish it was the same for everyone...but, it also seems to be the newer the hardware the worse the performance as well. Is your system a bit older by chance?
I am glad you are not having the issue, a lot of people still do though, and that is all we wanted to do was state it.
I play on dx9 ultra hi settings on my desk top with no hitching and play on my awesome new XPS 1730 lap top with DX 10, blah, blah....no hitching there either.
i just started 3 weeks ago...i play on ultra hi dx9, i dont have vista so i havent tried dx10....but i dont get any hitching what so ever
Thank you...that is a reasonable response as well. I wish it was the same for everyone...but, it also seems to be the newer the hardware the worse the performance as well. Is your system a bit older by chance?
I am glad you are not having the issue, a lot of people still do though, and that is all we wanted to do was state it.
I placed mine in to show the speeds of one of the connections, as it had been stated that maybe it was network related...I do not believe that is so..
But, you have to admit...those are some sweet numbers...mine is in the country...but, my workplace was the other location, and I will try to post that number...that was the T3 connection that also experienced hitching...
And like you say...it really does not have anything to do with the hitching...I think it is in the client code, and just has not been fixed yet...
I placed mine in to show the speeds of one of the connections, as it had been stated that maybe it was network related...I do not believe that is so..
But, you have to admit...those are some sweet numbers...mine is in the country...but, my workplace was the other location, and I will try to post that number...that was the T3 connection that also experienced hitching...
And like you say...it really does not have anything to do with the hitching...I think it is in the client code, and just has not been fixed yet...
ahh ok....i live in NYC so my cable connection is pretty sweet. I do get better performance in LOTRO than i do in EQ2 (i play both) on higher settings, but EQ2 is a hog on the higher settings due to the much higher poly count so i expected it.
I placed mine in to show the speeds of one of the connections, as it had been stated that maybe it was network related...I do not believe that is so..
But, you have to admit...those are some sweet numbers...mine is in the country...but, my workplace was the other location, and I will try to post that number...that was the T3 connection that also experienced hitching...
And like you say...it really does not have anything to do with the hitching...I think it is in the client code, and just has not been fixed yet...
ahh ok....i live in NYC so my cable connection is pretty sweet. I do get better performance in LOTRO than i do in EQ2 (i play both) on higher settings, but EQ2 is a hog on the higher settings due to the much higher poly count so i expected it.
And that is funny, as I get better playability in EQ2 AND in Vanguard even (which I just started up...had a few issues at first, but just needed to get it configured correctly)
But, that I think was the rub...that EQ2 runs perfectly, Vanguard now is even running sweet...yet LOTRO still played horrible after the last update...
Anyways...I just answered the other guys post...and will leave now...as I can see I have started a little thread war again.
I placed mine in to show the speeds of one of the connections, as it had been stated that maybe it was network related...I do not believe that is so..
But, you have to admit...those are some sweet numbers...mine is in the country...but, my workplace was the other location, and I will try to post that number...that was the T3 connection that also experienced hitching...
And like you say...it really does not have anything to do with the hitching...I think it is in the client code, and just has not been fixed yet...
ahh ok....i live in NYC so my cable connection is pretty sweet. I do get better performance in LOTRO than i do in EQ2 (i play both) on higher settings, but EQ2 is a hog on the higher settings due to the much higher poly count so i expected it.
And that is funny, as I get better playability in EQ2 AND in Vanguard even (which I just started up...had a few issues at first, but just needed to get it configured correctly)
But, that I think was the rub...that EQ2 runs perfectly, Vanguard now is even running sweet...yet LOTRO still played horrible after the last update...
Anyways...I just answered the other guys post...and will leave now...as I can see I have started a little thread war again.
I am glad for all those that don't hitch!
Later
wasnt flaming..was just stating what i was experiencing
I just went from a core 2 duo 8800GTS 2GB system to a i5 ATI 5850 4GB system and I am hitching like a MOFO. I have tried everything I can think of, BIOS timing tweaks, default settings, lowest settings, different resolutions and refresh rates, this game hitches every few seconds. With low settings I go from 245+ fps down to 0 fps every few seconds. I cannot believe how bad it is and I fee bad for all the people that suffered with this problem. A friend of mine over the Internet stopped playing the game when they released it because of hitching, I had no clue what he was talking about but wow I don't blame him at all now.
Turbine asked a few months ago if you could change one thing about LOTRO what would it be? I would now vote fix the hitching problem. I would be happy to send my PC to Turbine for testing if it meant getting this problem fixed.
I just figured it was something to do with my drivers. I was playing back in Nov/Dec with no issues, logged into a welcome back weekend a month or so again, and was hitching like crazy. Only different thing with my laptop was my graphics drivers. (ATI Radeon). Figured I'd try again once they release new drivers, as I hate the hassle of rolling back my drivers.
try playing with your video settings (especially V-Sync!)
Originally posted by nethaniah
Seriously Farmville? Yeah I think it's great. In a World where half our population is dying of hunger the more fortunate half is spending their time harvesting food that doesn't exist.
Oddly I and my wife play LotRO side by side. I have no hitching at all .. her PC hitches So I can see both sides.
I've tried everything I can to make her PC run smoother to no avail. Changed all GFX settings and altered user.ini's etc. nothing seesm to work. Oddly server load seems to have nothing to do with it, 1 person 100 people around her makes no difference. ISP is a non-factor since 3 of us run lotro in the house (son plays too - no hitching) so its hardware related IMO.
She never goes LD or anything .. its just kinda annoying. I guess she's gotten used to it but I cant play on her PC because after playing with no hitching its very noticable to me and drives me nuts.
Obviously some conflict somewhere ... I still occasionally sit down for a few hours messing with crap to try and get it smoother .. but its a work in progress.
In short, People need to stop with the "lotro hitches all the time" and "no it dont u liez" BS. I've seen both sides, lotro "can" run very smooth with no issues, yet it can also hitch constantly. Both are right and just because you live in one world or the other does not make other peoples experiances invalid. If you dont hitch be thankful, if you do keep plugging it at I'm sure we'll figure it out one day.
I normaly do not participate in this kind of discussions since they mostly turn into flame wars. So this is an exception. The problem exist, it´s impossible to deny. The Codemasters EU forums get new threads about hitching at regular basis, and more important, i have a long personal experince with hitching.
Me and my wife started to play LotRO at release 2007. From the very first minute until today, we experinced hitching more or less over the years. During this time, we changed computers several times, experinced two different ISP due to a move from one city to an other, used 24Mb ADSL and currently 100Mb fiber, tweaked LotRO in all possible ways we could, contacted Codemaster support and followed their recommendations... but still hitching.
To us, this is the biggest drawback with LotRO. It does not make us stop play since we love LotRO, but i want to point out that this is the only MMOG ever i was unable to get an working solution to a technical problem, and god know i did try many MMOGs over the last 10 years.
Most of my ingame friends do not suffer from hitching, however i know at least 12-15 players at my server (Evernight EU) that have the same experince as i do. Will i continue to play? Yes! Is it annoying? Hell yes!
I used to get incosistent performance and I would defrag my hard drive and that would help a little. But then I started using this tool and my load times and performance improved dramatically. If you have had the same .dat client on your machine for a while as I have since launch, the file itself needs to be defraged.
Sure topic is two years old, but the issue is still existing, so what´s your problem?
Jump down from your high horses. It helps some to disable the quest guide, just like it helps some to edit the userpreferences.ini, lower the game engine speed, etc. But then again, it does not help all. None of those fixes are universal.
Hitching for me was connected to the big three: Framerate, Antialiasing and Resolution. My TFTs natural resolution is pretty high for my GFX, so with very high details, dx 10 and AA 4 i had hitching even though my framerate was around 30-40. My impression was that the hitching happens when long distance objects are loaded, or close distance objects go from blurry to detailed. My guess is that since there are usually a lot of those objects doing this at once every couple of feet(every cell?) the framerate would go really low for a couple frames, which makes the game hitch.
Personally i had to turn off Antialising completely, which made my normal framerate stay around 60-90, which apparently leaves enough room for my GFX to handle the loading of objects without hitching. Maybe try going for that framerate first by whatever means, and look if that affects the problem for you, then work up the settings to make the game pretty again.
The hitching is caused when land block textures are swaped in or out. At a very great distance a land block might be solid green with no detail. As you approach that land block is replaced with a more detailed surface. At this moment the game will hitch. This happens in any direction, even if you do not see a land block updating, a terrain block could be updating behind your field of view.
As you can imagine this leads to endless hitching when outdoors. This is not an issue inside most/all preloaded instances.
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what does this have to do with hitching?
I am glad you are not having the issue, a lot of people still do though, and that is all we wanted to do was state it.
Thanks
I play on dx9 ultra hi settings on my desk top with no hitching and play on my awesome new XPS 1730 lap top with DX 10, blah, blah....no hitching there either.
I am glad you are not having the issue, a lot of people still do though, and that is all we wanted to do was state it.
Thanks
windows xp 64bit proAMD Athlon X2 5000+
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1x 500gig PATA 7200rpm HD
8800gt 512meg EVGA vid card
Realtek HD sound card
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But, you have to admit...those are some sweet numbers...mine is in the country...but, my workplace was the other location, and I will try to post that number...that was the T3 connection that also experienced hitching...
And like you say...it really does not have anything to do with the hitching...I think it is in the client code, and just has not been fixed yet...
But, you have to admit...those are some sweet numbers...mine is in the country...but, my workplace was the other location, and I will try to post that number...that was the T3 connection that also experienced hitching...
And like you say...it really does not have anything to do with the hitching...I think it is in the client code, and just has not been fixed yet...
ahh ok....i live in NYC so my cable connection is pretty sweet. I do get better performance in LOTRO than i do in EQ2 (i play both) on higher settings, but EQ2 is a hog on the higher settings due to the much higher poly count so i expected it.
But, you have to admit...those are some sweet numbers...mine is in the country...but, my workplace was the other location, and I will try to post that number...that was the T3 connection that also experienced hitching...
And like you say...it really does not have anything to do with the hitching...I think it is in the client code, and just has not been fixed yet...
ahh ok....i live in NYC so my cable connection is pretty sweet. I do get better performance in LOTRO than i do in EQ2 (i play both) on higher settings, but EQ2 is a hog on the higher settings due to the much higher poly count so i expected it.
And that is funny, as I get better playability in EQ2 AND in Vanguard even (which I just started up...had a few issues at first, but just needed to get it configured correctly)But, that I think was the rub...that EQ2 runs perfectly, Vanguard now is even running sweet...yet LOTRO still played horrible after the last update...
Anyways...I just answered the other guys post...and will leave now...as I can see I have started a little thread war again.
I am glad for all those that don't hitch!
Later
But, you have to admit...those are some sweet numbers...mine is in the country...but, my workplace was the other location, and I will try to post that number...that was the T3 connection that also experienced hitching...
And like you say...it really does not have anything to do with the hitching...I think it is in the client code, and just has not been fixed yet...
ahh ok....i live in NYC so my cable connection is pretty sweet. I do get better performance in LOTRO than i do in EQ2 (i play both) on higher settings, but EQ2 is a hog on the higher settings due to the much higher poly count so i expected it.
And that is funny, as I get better playability in EQ2 AND in Vanguard even (which I just started up...had a few issues at first, but just needed to get it configured correctly)But, that I think was the rub...that EQ2 runs perfectly, Vanguard now is even running sweet...yet LOTRO still played horrible after the last update...
Anyways...I just answered the other guys post...and will leave now...as I can see I have started a little thread war again.
I am glad for all those that don't hitch!
Later
wasnt flaming..was just stating what i was experiencing
I just went from a core 2 duo 8800GTS 2GB system to a i5 ATI 5850 4GB system and I am hitching like a MOFO. I have tried everything I can think of, BIOS timing tweaks, default settings, lowest settings, different resolutions and refresh rates, this game hitches every few seconds. With low settings I go from 245+ fps down to 0 fps every few seconds. I cannot believe how bad it is and I fee bad for all the people that suffered with this problem. A friend of mine over the Internet stopped playing the game when they released it because of hitching, I had no clue what he was talking about but wow I don't blame him at all now.
Turbine asked a few months ago if you could change one thing about LOTRO what would it be? I would now vote fix the hitching problem. I would be happy to send my PC to Turbine for testing if it meant getting this problem fixed.
I just figured it was something to do with my drivers. I was playing back in Nov/Dec with no issues, logged into a welcome back weekend a month or so again, and was hitching like crazy. Only different thing with my laptop was my graphics drivers. (ATI Radeon). Figured I'd try again once they release new drivers, as I hate the hassle of rolling back my drivers.
try playing with your video settings (especially V-Sync!)
Oh, I did. Toyed with everything for about 3 hours before giving up.
Old post but its still there.
Oddly I and my wife play LotRO side by side. I have no hitching at all .. her PC hitches
So I can see both sides.
I've tried everything I can to make her PC run smoother to no avail. Changed all GFX settings and altered user.ini's etc. nothing seesm to work. Oddly server load seems to have nothing to do with it, 1 person 100 people around her makes no difference. ISP is a non-factor since 3 of us run lotro in the house (son plays too - no hitching) so its hardware related IMO.
She never goes LD or anything .. its just kinda annoying. I guess she's gotten used to it but I cant play on her PC because after playing with no hitching its very noticable to me and drives me nuts.
Obviously some conflict somewhere ... I still occasionally sit down for a few hours messing with crap to try and get it smoother .. but its a work in progress.
In short, People need to stop with the "lotro hitches all the time" and "no it dont u liez" BS. I've seen both sides, lotro "can" run very smooth with no issues, yet it can also hitch constantly. Both are right and just because you live in one world or the other does not make other peoples experiances invalid. If you dont hitch be thankful, if you do keep plugging it at I'm sure we'll figure it out one day.
I normaly do not participate in this kind of discussions since they mostly turn into flame wars. So this is an exception. The problem exist, it´s impossible to deny. The Codemasters EU forums get new threads about hitching at regular basis, and more important, i have a long personal experince with hitching.
Me and my wife started to play LotRO at release 2007. From the very first minute until today, we experinced hitching more or less over the years. During this time, we changed computers several times, experinced two different ISP due to a move from one city to an other, used 24Mb ADSL and currently 100Mb fiber, tweaked LotRO in all possible ways we could, contacted Codemaster support and followed their recommendations... but still hitching.
To us, this is the biggest drawback with LotRO. It does not make us stop play since we love LotRO, but i want to point out that this is the only MMOG ever i was unable to get an working solution to a technical problem, and god know i did try many MMOGs over the last 10 years.
Most of my ingame friends do not suffer from hitching, however i know at least 12-15 players at my server (Evernight EU) that have the same experince as i do. Will i continue to play? Yes! Is it annoying? Hell yes!
Best regards
Snake
http://mmofocus.se
I used to get incosistent performance and I would defrag my hard drive and that would help a little. But then I started using this tool and my load times and performance improved dramatically. If you have had the same .dat client on your machine for a while as I have since launch, the file itself needs to be defraged.
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=327894&highlight=defrag+tool
Hope this helps
There is a simple solution to the hitching problem.
1. Options -> UI Settings
2. Disable "Show Quest Guide on Radar"
3. Enjoy!
btw: the topic is 2 years old......
Sure topic is two years old, but the issue is still existing, so what´s your problem?
Jump down from your high horses. It helps some to disable the quest guide, just like it helps some to edit the userpreferences.ini, lower the game engine speed, etc. But then again, it does not help all. None of those fixes are universal.
http://mmofocus.se
Hitching for me was connected to the big three: Framerate, Antialiasing and Resolution. My TFTs natural resolution is pretty high for my GFX, so with very high details, dx 10 and AA 4 i had hitching even though my framerate was around 30-40. My impression was that the hitching happens when long distance objects are loaded, or close distance objects go from blurry to detailed. My guess is that since there are usually a lot of those objects doing this at once every couple of feet(every cell?) the framerate would go really low for a couple frames, which makes the game hitch.
Personally i had to turn off Antialising completely, which made my normal framerate stay around 60-90, which apparently leaves enough room for my GFX to handle the loading of objects without hitching. Maybe try going for that framerate first by whatever means, and look if that affects the problem for you, then work up the settings to make the game pretty again.
The hitching is caused when land block textures are swaped in or out. At a very great distance a land block might be solid green with no detail. As you approach that land block is replaced with a more detailed surface. At this moment the game will hitch. This happens in any direction, even if you do not see a land block updating, a terrain block could be updating behind your field of view.
As you can imagine this leads to endless hitching when outdoors. This is not an issue inside most/all preloaded instances.