How to Make LOTRO Look Amazing 2024 Visual Graphics & UI Settings - A Master Class | A LOTRO Guide. 

Happy Father's Day all! (The day I posted this video). 🎉😊

I finally found someone to help me fix ui for my 4k monitor thank you for this video

This Was amazing! Thank you so much! This made my Lord of the rings online journey so much easier!!

NICE! this was exactly what I was lookinhg for

Great video, thank you

Bunch of random comments: -3:15 DirectX 11 is always better except in a very few cases related to specific video hardware and drivers which have compatibility issues with DX11 and LOTRO. Do not believe the people who claim that running in DX10 or DX9 makes the game run better, this is not true. The reason those people think that isn’t because they’re dumb, it’s because DX11 provides the OPTION of additional eye candy which of course requires more processing power and can result in lower frame rates. It’s better to turn down or disable those specific graphics settings than to use DX10 or DX9 and doing so will have the same positive impact on fps while allowing the game to make use of the DX11 API. -3:35 Zollin knows this but glossed over it quickly in the video: OVERALL GRAPHICS SETTINGS is not a setting, it is a predefined group of settings (a “preset”). Adjusting Overall Graphics Settings is the same as making adjustments to many settings all at once, but you have to use the predefined presets. It is not possible to save a custom preset. Just as LOTRO’s ability to detect and determine the optimal settings for your rig are not very good, the presets will also often not be very good for your specific rig. It’s fine to start with one of the presets but you really ought to then go through each setting individually and experiment to determine what gives you the best results for your specific rig. -5:10 While 16:9 is the most common aspect ratio for modern TVs and computer monitors, many people use “ultra-wide” displays or have laptop screens with some semi-random aspect ratio which just happens to fit the size the manufacturer chose to use for that device’s screen. Leave the ASPECT RATIO setting on AUTO unless you have a good reason to not do so. If your monitor is 16:9 then the AUTO setting will have the game generate output at 16:9. -6:20 While of course higher settings are always better looking, they can also result in lower frame rates and higher heat generation. Antialiasing makes an enormous difference in the visual quality of 3D objects so even if your hardware is modest you should set this at 2x. Anything higher than that has diminishing returns, i.e. your computer has to work MORE than twice as hard to deliver 4x Antialiasing as it does to deliver 2x Antialiasing. You might not notice or only barely notice the difference between 2x and 16x, but you will notice the difference between 2x and Antialiasing completely disabled. This is a good setting to reduce if you need to sacrifice a little visual quality to keep your laptop from China syndrome or to maintain a playable framerate. -7:20 The various light and gamma settings are available in Full Screen, Full Screen Windowed, and Windowed mode. At least, they are on every rig on which I’ve played LOTRO. Perhaps there’s something about Zollin’s setup that prevents these settings from working for him in Full Screen Windowed. The maximum Ambient Light setting seems to work well for Zollin’s recordings but I find it can wash out colors and make some scenes too bright which makes things appear unnatural. A little bump over the default is OK and makes it easier to see landscape features in dark places such as Moria; I use 0.3 instead of the default 0.0. -10:14 Be careful with Texture Cache Size. This uses your computer’s system RAM (not your VRAM) to cache textures for faster swapping to your graphics card, reducing the amount of data that has to be read on the fly for your storage drive - even a very fast SSD is much slower than system RAM. But if your rig does not have a lot of RAM, setting this all the way to the right can result in instability; the game will be more prone to crash. Remember that Windows (or whatever your OS might be) uses RAM, the 64-bit client needs 5.5gb of RAM for stable operation, and any other application you are running (a web browser, Discord, screen capture software…) and all your background tasks require RAM, too. If you have 16gb or more system RAM you should be OK to max this setting as long as you don’t go crazy with multiple applications or dozens of browser tabs. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of computers being sold with 8gb or even less RAM and if you have one of those you might want to keep this setting low or even all the way to the left (disabled). If you need to reduce some settings to try to get your frame rate up to an acceptable level: -Antialiasing=2x -Environment Stencil Shadows=disabled (barely noticeable but a HUGE performance boost in some areas) -DX10 Dynamic Shadows=Low or Off (try not to go all the way to Off unless you really have to) -Object Draw Distance, as low as you can stand it (very big performance difference but also very big visual quality difference) -Landscape Draw Distance, as low as you can stand it (outdoors or in very large indoor areas a HUGE performance vs quality difference, in most indoor areas makes no difference at all)

This is very helpful but I think the main issue that a lot of higher resolution folks have - I'm running 1440p (2560 x 1600 / 16:10 ) but I downgrade to 1080p (1920 x 1080 / 16:9) when I play LOTRO - is that even when we scale the UI and the text and all that, certain UI elements (the inventory, the character pane, the other panels) don't scale. It can make it almost impossible to see what's going on with those panels.

Thanks for this vid. Was soooooo helpful!

Well done this man

Thanks, Great video

Thank you very much. Great stuff

This video was awesome. Thank you!!!

I play on a 4k TV, and the problem I am having trying to start playing the game is the text is microscopic to the point of unreadable.

thank you for the video.

One tip is to use Reshade to fine tune your graphics even more. It might be nice to have some more HDR like images and ambient occlusion might be also possible to adjust.

Thank you for this video! I just started playing lotro (today) and was having some issues getting things set up. Is there anything to be done with text / font changes? Its just a bit to blurry and small .

THE OPTIONS MENU IS SO SMALL I CAN'T EVEN READ IT ON 4K

How can increase UI size bar of my inventory. It looks so tiny on 4k cant even read it. Same goes for option window

i have used the fullscreen windows and my quests are not to the right hand side is this somthig i can chnage

Why hello! 🎉

Would same suggestions for settings apply when running in 4k resolution with 4k monitor?

Can i play this game if i dont really like questing? I Would like to skip as much as possible and start doing dungeons or grind mobs is it possible?

now when i open a quest the text is really small and the text box writing is small

How did you increase the font size in the chat window?

Not sure why you keep talking about graphic cards when it’s a well known fact that LOTROs performance issues are due to it being single-core only. So if you want a performance boost, get a strong single core CPU, not a new graphics card. Usually with LOTRO the GPU idles somewhere around 30 percent while the CPU is doing all the heavy lifting on its own

ok but how do i make my bag bigger

too bad you cannot scale the inventory - that thing is such a horrible eyesore at 4k

"The UI is really good" WHAT DO YA MEAN!?! ITS AWFUL!. All jokes aside, great video. Thanks!

TLDR: Choose "Overall Graphics Quality: Ultra High" and that's it.

i have rtx 3060 and on highest settings i have 30 fps, how can i fix that?

Lol, how to make Lotro look amazing, just turn everything on high. Thanks...jeez...