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After today's patch whenever I reach the server selection screen on the launcher and hit Play the launcher crashes & disappears, no error message. I tried switching servers but always have the same result, launch window disappears & the game doesn't launch. LotRO was working fine for me last night. Whatever SSG did with today's patch screwed this up.
Update: Yesterday I was running 64bit with no issues. Now I can only launch the game in 32 bit. Now when I try to launch the game in 64 bit the launcher crashes after the server selection & Play.
Hm. I'm having the same problem as the OP.
Will try switching to 32 bit, see what happens.
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And that worked! It would appear the update broke the 64-bit client. Shucky darn.
Having the same issue, everything was fine before the patch today. Now it crashes to desktop.
Same issue, had it happen in previous updates but running dx9 runtimes has always fixed it. This time nada only thing that works is switching to 32bit client
It doesn't quite *crash* to desktop, it just quietly exits. The effect is the same. However, I find 32-bit to be WAI. At present. The lights will burn late at SSG tonight. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordoc
Please try running the launcher as admin to see if that makes a difference.
I have the same issue. I switched back to the 32 bit client on my windows 10 desktop and I can login okay. I also have Lotro on my 8.1 laptop. The 64 bit client loads okay on my 8.1 laptop.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaystarWarrior
Hmm, do you have "keep launcher open" selected? If you don't, the launcher should close without an error message. If the game client closes, with or without an error message, there may be one or more required dynamically loaded link libraries missing. To test that, go to the folder where the client is located. Since you didn't say which client, and others are mentioning the 64 bit one, find lotroclient64.exe and try to launch it directly. This should fail, but should give a hint to which dll is missing on your system. These patches do not, normally, affect system files once those are present; though they could. More likely, especially if you are on Windows 10, is that a Windows update shredded the needed dll file.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaystarWarrior
I did, no difference. I also tried resetting the defaults on the launcher, didn't work either. Can only run the game now in 32bit, launcher fails on 64bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
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Originally Posted by Silorien
I have tried running as Administrator and still the launcher disappears after a server is selected, it does not launch game. I am using 64 bit Windows 10.
Please try the procedure cdq1958 described above. That should tell you whether or not you're missing a required DLL.
After trying to launch the 64-bit client directly, mine said I was missing MSVCR100.DLL
So I installed the x64 and x86 versions of this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=26999
And now it boots just fine without any admin/compatibility settings necessary.
I just tried running 64 bit client as admin on my windows 10 desktop and the game still disappeared when I selected the server to login to. I switched back to the 32 bit client on my windows 10 desktop and got in through the 32 bit client.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
I am having the same problem to and been trying to solve this issue for 3 hours
I always run as administrator that did now fix issueQuote:
Originally Posted by djheydt
Sorry; was that a typo for "did not?" It makes a difference....Quote:
Originally Posted by Sherush
that worked for me thank youQuote:
Originally Posted by gildhur
I have this problem also, cant get in the game. And this doesn't help also, same as running the game as admin. When i try to enter launcher just dissapears without any error notifications.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
You (and anyone else affected) will need to install the 64-bit Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluehef
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=13523
We redistribute that with the installer, but unfortunately it's only installing the 32-bit version. I'll add the 64-bit version, but it's going to require a patch to fix.
Thank you for this, I just installed whatever this was, and now I can log into the game correctly and on the 64-bit version :). Glad about that I was getting the LOTRO withdrawal shakes lmao.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=13523 worked for me too. I'm back in on the 64 bit client on my windows 10 desktop. thank you muchlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Tiadrop
Thanks for that workaround Silorien! I'm now playing LotRO in 64 bit :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
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Originally Posted by Silorien
Thank you so very kindly for the work around. I am back in game with the 64bit client.
I have another problem. I can't enter Middle-earth by any character, the message appears: "Your character is still being saved. Please try again later." And this situation lasts about 8 hours. This problem only on the server Landroval, on other servers I can play, there is no problem.
For those of us who are computer knowledge deficient, how does one switch form 64 to 32 bit launch?
On the Launcher. Click the little down arrow up near the top right (next to the x and -) and select Options. Then you can switch between 64 and 32 bit on the screen that pops up.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobf
How do we switch to 32 from64 ? I don't know much about computers?Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
Thank you so much :) it worked ! only difference was mine showed defaulted to 32 bit tried it, didn't work, checked off 64 bit (new) and it's working fine! can't thank you enough, I even uninstalled and re- installed game and still didn't work before you replied! TY so much :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Altair6
We have added Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) to the launcher pre-requisite list. It should (as of now) automatically download and install this package the next time the launcher is executed on your machine.
Now my wine launcher is freezing on "Installing Microsoft Visual C++...." :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
Is this a Mac thing, or are others having trouble? My game was working fine this morning.
Yep me too, seriously thinking of throwing the towel in with this game now, its painful playing on a mac, so sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Echoweaver
Well, other than the instant withdrawal symptoms, that's reassuring -- I didn't screw my client up somehow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fairmeadow
Not that this helps with the immediate problem :(.
ETA: Switching back to 32-bit, inasmuch as it's clear I'm doing that with the weird options GUI on the launcher, didn't fix it. It seems determined to download 64-bit C++ no matter what.
yeah,TY for response,I am not computer literate when it comes to all this stuff , ( in my 60's :) ) but got help from forum that worked, all fine now, just don't understand why everyone was saying they could log in on 32 bit not 64, and when reply came back to me on how to change from 64 to 32, I was defaulted to 32, had to change to 64 (new) then all worked smh, but all good now, tyvm allQuote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
My mac is also stopping on the Visual C+ message.
Any one figure a way around this by chance?
Glad you got it sorted. I'm in my 60s too, so understand about the confusing stuff. I just keep my fingers crossed a lot. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bobf
Guy near the end of the thread has a work around -here,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mayliff
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...0-Package-quot
Although if you need to relog you have to do it all again.
HTH.
TY so much buddy, it worked and now can play :)more than GM's did, :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Altair6
Morning, So I'm still having this issue of the launcher just vanishing when I try to enter laurelin , downloading this hasn't worked for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
Any further advise ?
Lenova G50-45 laptop
Windows 10 64 bit
Ram 12 GB
Total Phy Mem 11 GB
Available Phy Mem 7.57 GB
Total Virtual Mem 12.6 GB
Sorry I'm not a tech person , 32 bit is fine , its just 64
This (nor any of the other work arounds) have worked for me. 32 bit launches fine, 64 bit flashes "getting in line to connect" after hitting play, then the launcher resets to Username/password. I submitted a ticket a couple days ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silorien
January, 2020
It seems this is still happening
I was able to log in via x32 without problems (besides performance) and I read all of these wonderful things about x64
I re-launched with the x64 box checked and it instantly dropped me out of the queue and back into the login screen.
Windows didn't even suggest that anything tried to launch.
I tracked down the lotroclient64.exe and ran it to figure out which .DLLs I was missing.
Downloaded the missing .dll and then instead I got a generic "0xc000007b" crash.
Reset settings, rebooted, ran as admin, compatability for win7, downloaded the MS redistributable packages, and every combination of such, nothing worked.
Screw it, I'll just grit my teeth with the frame drops and loading times, thought I.
Checked x32 box again, and it instantly dropped me out of the queue and back into the login screen.
At the time of typing this, I am reinstalling the game since otherwise LotrO is genuinely unplayable owing to my attempt to try out the x64.
Anyone else still having this problem, or just little ol' me?
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Originally Posted by way2keul
Me too mate, have tried everything suggested :(
Same thing has happened to me since the latest update adding the Treebeard & Shadowfax servers. I already have the latest version of C++, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluehef