3rd day with macbook and 3rd day in a row without lotro ;)
Dear fellow travelers, please help a person who has decided to move to MacBook and still wants to play LotRO.
I have MacBook air M1, Big Sur 11.3.1. and 16gb ram version
1.I have downloaded Lotro .dmg client from the homepage.
2.Installed lotro + it asked to install wine I allowed both things to happen
3.Lotro client icon is now on my screen, but when I try to run it it just opens a window in the picture below and stops after a while without any success.
I tried to find the info i could find on google and as well in this forum. Some of the user like Tralfazz have done an amazing job, but going to that mega topics with so much info about things that I don't understand just made things complicated. I understand that buying crossover might help, but does it works plain and simple way - download mac client/install/update/play?
Thank you for taking your time and probably answering my silly question, but all this new world that I have entered with MacBook probably is too much for a few days to learn.
Dear fellow travelers, please help a person who has decided to move to MacBook and still wants to play LotRO.
Hi, Theowien! Welcome to Mac! You made your move at a good time, the Apple Silicon SOC computers are great values and MacOS is a useful and secure system for most tasks as long as the software you need to run will run under it.
Originally Posted by Theowien
I have MacBook air M1, Big Sur 11.3.1. and 16gb ram version
Awesome, I'm jealous! Thank you for providing that information, it helps a lot with troubleshooting.
Originally Posted by Theowien
1.I have downloaded Lotro .dmg client from the homepage.
Well, there's the problem: The "Mac"/WINE client provided by SSG at this webpage's DOWNLOAD section will only work in MacOS 10.14 Mojave or earlier. Your lovely new M1 MacBook Air cannot run any version of MacOS earlier than MacOS 11.0 Big Sur. And besides, the "Mac"/WINE client is currently half-broken: Only the 32-bit executable will work, SSG added required dependencies for the 64-bit executable beginning in March 2021 which are not present in the WINE wrapper they provide. The 32-bit executable is usable but is greatly inferior to the 64-bit executable especially in terms of the amount of RAM it can address.
Originally Posted by Theowien
I understand that buying crossover might help, but does it works plain and simple way - download mac client/install/update/play?
There are two ways to get LOTRO to run on your M1 Mac:
1- Learn how to compile your own installation of WINE which includes a 32-to-64 conversion layer (because no version of MacOS post-Mojave can run 32-bit applications and the LOTRO launcher is 32-bit only), install it on your Mac, then download and install the Windows version of the game into your new WINE wrapper. This is doable! But if you choose this route I'm afraid you are on your own. WINE isn't rocket science but setting it up is not something I can help with over forum messages. If you really want to do this – and I do not recommend it – here is where you can get started: https://www.winehq.org
2- Download the 2-week free trial of Crossover for Mac from Codeweavers. It is basically the "pro" version of WINE with a relatively simple interface for creating and managing your WINE "bottles". LOTRO works great in Crossover! I use it every day, although in my case on an Intel Mac. Many people have LOTRO running on Apple Silicon Macs, most experience no special trouble doing the installation or getting it to work and those that do get over their issues with a little bit of extra help (usually from me). If you are successful getting LOTRO to run using the free trial period (and you will be), you can purchase a license later if you choose to keep using Crossover after the trial period. Crossover can be downloaded here: https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover/download
edit: Before doing ANYTHING ELSE you read below, delete the entire installation of LOTRO currently on your Mac. It will not work and is taking up quite a bit of space – possibly as much as 40gb. Delete the lotroclient application you put into your /Applications folder and also delete the entire folder you will find here:
~/Library/Application Support/com.standingstonegames.lotro
If you need more explicit directions to delete the "Mac"/WINE client from your Mac before continuing with instructions below, let me know and I will provide them.
So here's what to do if you choose to try Crossover:
1- If you still have your Windows box around, copy the folder The Lord of the Rings Online (which you will find inside your My Documents folder) onto an external drive. Unless you have a lot of plugins or a huge amount of saved plugin data, the entire thing will be – at most – 200mb so even a little USB thumb drive will get the job done. Just be sure the external drive is formatted in a manner that can be used by both Windows and Mac systems (ExFAT or FAT32); you can format it as needed by using the Disk Utility application on your new Mac.
2- Now plug the external drive into your new Mac and copy the folder The Lord of the Rings Online into your ~/Documents folder. When I write ~/Documents I mean the folder named Documents inside the folder named for your Mac account name, so the full filepath will look something like this:
Macintosh HD/Users/Theowien/Documents
...and when you have the folder The Lord of the Rings Online copied in there, it will be ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online, full filepath something like this:
Macintosh HD/Users/Theowien/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online
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The value of the above 2 steps is that you will preserve all your keybinds, layouts, plugins, plugin data, and other preferences and have an easier time getting the game to run successfully after it is first installed.
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3- Open the file ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/UserPreferences.ini with the application TextEdit. Be sure the line...
GameClientType=3
...looks exactly like that. If the numeral is 1 or 2, change it to 3. If it's 3, leave it alone. This will force the use of the 64-bit executable.
4- With the file ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/UserPreferences.ini still open, be sure the line...
ScreenMode=FullScreenWindowed
...looks exactly like that. FullScreen is not OK. Windowed is OK but I strongly recommend FullScreenWindowed for now so make the change if needed.
5- With the file ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/UserPreferences.ini still open, be sure the line...
GraphicsCore=D3D9
...looks exactly like that. You can try DirectX 11 later but for now you want to use DirectX 9. Make the change if needed. Then SAVE the UserPreferences.ini file.
6- Open the file ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/UserPreferences64.ini with the application TextEdit. Be sure the line...
ScreenMode=FullScreenWindowed
...looks exactly like that. FullScreen is NOT OK. Windowed is OK but I strongly recommend FullScreenWindowed for now so make the change if needed.
7- With the file ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/UserPreferences64.ini still open, be sure the line...
GraphicsCore=D3D9
...looks exactly like that. You can try DirectX 11 later but for now you want to use DirectX 9. Make the change if needed. Then SAVE the UserPreferences64.ini file. Then QUIT out of the TextEdit application.
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The value of Step 3-Step 7 is to prep the .ini files so that the game will launch using the 64-bit executable in the most compatible mode possible, increasing the likelihood that the game will run the first time you try to run it after installation.
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8- SETTING UP CROSSOVER
8a- Download and install Crossover for Mac. As I write this, the most current version is 20.0.4. There is a 2-week free trial, you can purchase a license later.
8b- Launch Crossover.
8c- Create a new Crossover bottle. Be sure that the bottle is defined as Windows 10 64-bit.
8d- Click INSTALL A WINDOWS APPLICATION near the bottom of the main Crossover window and type "DirectX for Modern Games" then follow all the prompts until DirectX for Modern Games is installed into your bottle.
8e- Check the "settings" of your bottle so that the following three items are checked:
DEFAULT BOTTLE
PERFORMANCE ENHANCED GRAPHICS
DXVK BACKEND FOR D3D11
8f- Check the "settings" of your bottle so that the following two items are NOT checked:
HIGH RESOLUTION MODE
PERFORMANCE ENHANCED SYNCHONIZATION (ESYNC)
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The value of Step 8 is that I- You need to have a Windows 10 64-bit bottle for the game to run the 64-bit executable, a Windows 10 bottle (without the 64-bit suffix) will not do. Unfortunately, the "crosstie" which is the automated way of creating a bottle and installing LOTRO, often does not provide the correct bottle type so we do it manually instead; II- DirectX for Modern Games installs DirectX components which are more up-to-date than those installed by default into the bottle without it; III- The settings are what have been found, experimentally, to allow the game to work properly and to make future troubleshooting – if needed – easier.
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9- INSTALLING LOTRO INTO CROSSOVER
9a- Keep things as simple as possible: If you are running on a laptop, disconnect any external monitor. If you use multiple monitors, disconnect all but the one monitor you plan to use to play the game. You can reconnect external/other monitors later once you have the game running.
9b- Download the Windows installer, lotrolive.exe, from the SSG website here by choosing the "PC Download". Do NOT choose the "Mac Download"! Here's the link: https://www.lotro.com/en/game/download
Don't worry about where lotrolive.exe ends up on your Mac, it will probably go to the ~/Downloads folder. Leave it there, you can delete it later once the game is installed and running.
9c- Go to the Crossover application and click INSTALL A WINDOWS APPLICATION near the bottom of the main Crossover window. At the bottom-left of the next window that appears, click BROWSE ALL APPLICATIONS. At the bottom of the list that appears, click UNLISTED APPLICATION. Then click CONTINUE. Click on CHOOSE INSTALLER FILE and navigate your way to lotrolive.exe which you downloaded in 9b above. Choose lotrolive.exe and then just follow the prompts until the game begins downloading and installing itself.
9d- At some point you will be asked if you want to download the high-resolution game files. Say YES.
9e- At some point you will be asked if you want to use DirectX 10 or DirectX 11. Say NO.
9f- At some point you might be asked to give permission to Crossover or LOTRO to access your ~/Documents folder or your computer's microphone or something else. GRANT ANY SUCH PERMISSION REQUESTED. If you do not know how to do so, I can step you through the process but it should be self-explanatory and the OS will offer to help you.
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The primary value of Step 9 is to avoid the errors often introduced with the "crosstie" (the automated method Crossover provides for installing LOTRO).
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10- Eventually the LOTRO launcher application will ask you to choose a server and to enter your login credentials. After you do that, you can hit the PLAY button on the LOTRO launcher. DO NOT TRY TO CHECK ANY OF THE BOXES OR CHANGE ANY OPTIONS USING THE LOTRO LAUNCHER APP AT THIS TIME!
11- After you hit the PLAY button, the LOTRO launcher application will close itself and sometime between instantly and a few seconds later the game client will be launched.
11a If it takes longer than a few seconds the first time, that's OK. Have patience!
11b- If it takes longer than a minute before you see the splash screens and then get to the character creation/selection screen, that's not OK – something's gone wrong. But don't worry, we can make it work, it's just going to take some time to figure out what went wrong in the steps you performed before that point and to figure out what we need to do to work around the error.
It should just work without undue fuss. But there are a lot of little things that can go wrong. Try to not let it bother you too much if the game doesn't run the first time, lots of people make little mistakes and they are all fixable although it sometimes takes a while and a bit of back-and-forth on the message board to track down the problem and implement the required workaround.
12- If the game works, awesome! You can try to use DirectX 11 now. You can change from DirectX 9 to DirectX 11 using the in-game OPTIONS panel. I do recommend trying DirectX 11, it is better than DirectX 9. However, DirectX 11 does have issues with some integrated graphics and the Apple SOC has, definitionally, integrated graphics. Some folks with Apple Silicon Macs get DirectX 11 to run with no trouble, which is great! Others can run DirectX 11 but have issues and end up going back to DirectX 9. Some folks with Apple Silicon Macs can't get the game to run with DirectX 11 at all. I have not yet managed to determine the variables at play which create these different outcomes.
edit: Do NOT attempt to use DirectX 10. It is a hot mess.
13- If the game doesn't work, boo! Report back here with as much detail as possible and we will – possibly quickly and easily, possibly with a lot of time and typing on the forums here – get it to work. Everyone I have helped has been successful, most with no trouble at all but even those who had trouble initially eventually got it going by being patient, providing detailed reports, and following my instructions for testing and attempted repairs.
What can I say...can we (with this I mean MacBook users) make a request to SSG and give this guy Tralfazz some bonus? I don't know lifetime subscription or something? I mean seriously he's doing amazing job I have never received such help from a stranger online, so one more time THANK YOU Tralfazz.
I went in your comments and I'll be rdy to start someday next week, will report back with my success, meanwhile I hope Ill meet you someday in Middle Earth will have a beer with you, amazing comments!
I would be very surprised if this works at all. WINE/Crossover are meant to work on Intel type systems. For example a Windows Intel to Mac Intel. Even then it is not always reliable. Apple M1 is a completely different architecture.
However, Apple included some features in Big Sur called Rosetta2 that will attempt to translate an Intel Mac program into an M1 mac program. I don’t know how reliable this is itself. It is meant to hold people over until software gets rewritten for the new M1 chip.
For Lotro to work it has to get past the Crossover and Rossetta steps. The good news is that Big Sur does the Rossetta step automatically. So you don’t have to take any steps yourself.
I have seen on youtube some people have success with other crossover games on m1 macs though. So I’d be interested to see how lotro does.
If it doesn’t work there is another way to try on M1 mac. That is to get Parallels for M1 then install Windows 10 ARM. Then install Lotro in that. Parallels is a program that lets you run virtual machines of other operating systems. These operating systems must be compatible with the M1. So you need a special version of windows that runs on ARM (the type of cpu that M1 is). Once you get that working, Windows for ARM has its own translation similar to Rosetta that will try to turn a Windows Intel program into a Windows ARM program. If that works then you might be able to play lotro in there.
I would be very surprised if this works at all. WINE/Crossover are meant to work on Intel type systems.
Parallels is a program that lets you run virtual machines of other operating systems.
There are a lot of people running LOTRO on Apple SOC Macs using Crossover. Look through some of the other threads here in the Mac Technical Support forums and on Codeweavers's Crossover/LOTRO compatibility forums. While I don't own an Apple SOC Mac myself, I have helped many folks get LOTRO running on Apple SOC Macs and have heard of many others who got it running on their own.
Rosetta (the translation layer used by MacOS to smooth over the PowerPC->Intel transition) was licensed for certain releases of MacOS and was eventually dropped so that Apple would no longer have to pay that license fee. Rosetta2 is 100% Apple-owned so there will be no financial pressure to drop it as there was for Rosetta. More importantly, Codeweavers has a "roadmap" for Crossover and expects it to continue to function even after Rosetta2 might be dropped from some future version of MacOS just as they got through the PowerPC->Intel transition.
Parallels is fine but as you point out it is a full virtual machine and requires a full version of Windows to run Windows applications. WINE is not an emulator, it translates Windows calls to Mac calls on the fly. WINE (and Crossover, which is basically the "pro" version of WINE) therefore requires less disc space and – much more importantly – fewer system resources because the Mac doesn't have to bear the overhead of running a virtual CPU and all the Microsoft cruft that is Windows OS. This makes WINE/Crossover a superior solution as long as the application you want to run will work. LOTRO works under Crossover (and once open-source WINE is updated – don't hold your breath but it will happen eventually – it will work under WINE, too). Therefore, based on real-world performance tests, costs, available tech support, and other factors; I don't recommend Parallels or other emulators and instead suggest Crossover for any Mac-using LOTRO players who want to play under any post-Mojave OS or who want to use the superior 64-bit executable which is currently broken under SSG's "Mac"/WINE client.
I've saved Tralfazz's wonderful instructions for the day when I feel brave! But being barely tech literate, I took a different approach. I made a separate partition and installed Mojave on it, then installed lotro. I play on this partition and it works fine. It is somewhat inconvenient but it's do-able.
Again, kudos to Tralfazz for giving us such lovely, stepwise instructions! I shall give it a go, one of these days when I am ready. (Yes, I am easily intimidated by tech stuff...)
I made a separate partition and installed Mojave on it, then installed lotro. I play on this partition and it works fine. It is somewhat inconvenient but it's do-able.
That's what I was doing when I first began playing the game in August 2020 and continued through December 2020. I had a Mojave boot volume already because I have a number of 32-bit Mac applications which won't run in post-Mojave versions of MacOS due to the lack of 32-bit support in those OSes. I keep that installation of the LOTRO "Mac"/WINE client on my Mojave boot volume for testing purposes although I only play LOTRO in Crossover now. Rebooting takes less than a minute in either direction, it's not a big deal at all.
I think using the "Mac"/WINE client under a pre-Catalina version of MacOS is fine. It was certainly a 100% reasonable course until 2021-03-17, but on that day a patch was released which broke the ability of the "Mac"/WINE client to use the 64-bit executable. The 32-bit executable continues to work in the "Mac"/WINE client but it is greatly inferior to the 64-bit executable. If you are not bothered by the limitations of the 32-bit executable, then don't worry about it. If you find your game slowing down, getting glitchy, or crashing in player-dense or graphically-busy areas, that's the 32-bit executable's inability to address enough RAM biting you in the eyeballs. At the moment, the only reasonable way around this issue is to use Crossover because updating the WINE bottle provided by SSG with the "Mac"/WINE client is not a user-friendly operation whereas Crossover provides a very simple UI for installing things into and updating its bottles.
Tral - that is very useful info. I did have the problem with the 64-bit client. The 32-bit client works fine for me, thank goodness. I do intend to try the Crossover solution - I just need to get myself in the right frame of mind! It seems prudent to do so, in case the 32-bit client goes pear shaped on me.
Good news, all is going just well, downloaded crossover, lotro.exe installed, followed the steps Tralfaz all is going well. Had some glitches, but because didn't use bottle WIndow 10 64 bit and due to that client=3 missing...
Question - has anyone installed this on the crossover? https://lotrointerface.com/downloads...=663&so=oldest
For me it showed this error when i try to unpatch plugins within this compendium. I tried to install buff bars without this compendium and still no luck as well.
If only i knew how to upload pictures here i coud shrae more details, but those are small things, i can play LOTRO after all, pitty that have to spend 50 bucks, but people in crossover deserves it
Good news, all is going just well, downloaded crossover, lotro.exe installed, followed the steps Tralfaz all is going well. Had some glitches, but because didn't use bottle WIndow 10 64 bit and due to that client=3 missing...
Question - has anyone installed this on the crossover? https://lotrointerface.com/downloads...=663&so=oldest
For me it showed this error when i try to unpatch plugins within this compendium. I tried to install buff bars without this compendium and still no luck as well.
If only i knew how to upload pictures here i coud shrae more details, but those are small things, i can play LOTRO after all, pitty that have to spend 50 bucks, but people in crossover deserves it
Hi Theowien!
If you created a bottle that isn't 64-bit, you really ought to delete it then create a new bottle that is Windows 10 64-bit then install LOTRO (using the Windows installer) into that. I know you just want to play but you will be better off correcting this now rather than waiting and maybe needing to do it when you're in the middle of playing the game. Not being able to use the 64-bit client because you created a 32-bit only bottle is going to cause problems at some point because the 32-bit client is very limited in the amount of RAM it can address. It's better to solve the problem now rather than wait until you decide to attend Weatherstock or go to Minas Tirith or participate in a raid and find that you crash every 2 minutes.
I don't use the Plugin Compendium. Remember that you aren't actually running Windows on your Mac and the Plugin Compendium is a Windows application. It might or might not work within Crossover, I don't know, I haven't tried it nor do I plan to try it. Fortunately, you can install and run any plugin within LOTRO without using the Plugin Compendium or any other Windows application. It's pretty easy.
A- Installing a LOTRO plugin:
1- Be sure that LOTRO isn't running, neither the LOTRO launcher nor the LOTRO client. It's OK if Crossover is running.
2- Download the plugin you want to use. Let it sit in your ~/Downloads folder (or wherever Safari put it) for now.
3- If you have your Mac set up to not automatically unpack archive files, you might need to double-click the .zip file to get to the plugin's folder. By default, your Mac should do this for you automatically, placing the .zip file in the Trash and leaving the unpacked file/s and or folder/s in your designated download location.
4- Using the Finder, go to ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online.
5- There might be a folder inside ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online called Plugins. If not, create one with that exact name so that the full path is:
~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins
6- Move the plugin folder you downloaded and unpacked from its current location (probably the ~/Downloads folder) to the ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins folder.
7- Launch the game.
8- When you get into your chosen server and to the character creation/selection screen, click on MANAGE PLUGINS on the right side of the screen.
9- Use the Plugin Manager window to choose your installed plugin and to define for which of your characters on that server that plugin will be enabled.
10- Enter the game world with a character for which the plugin will be enabled.
11- Once you are in the game world, you probably have to follow some instructions on the plugin's download page in order to set its options and otherwise configure it the way you want it.
BuffBars is a plugin I use myself. You actually have to download three different things and install them in sequence. This is because of lotrointerface.com's policy that third parties can post "patches" for other people's plugins but can't post entire replacements for them. (There are some exceptions but BuffBars is not one of them.) So here's what you need to do for BuffBars specifically, it's easy but the instructions are long.
B- Installing the most recent/updated version of BuffBars:
1- Be sure that LOTRO isn't running, neither the LOTRO launcher nor the LOTRO client. It's OK if Crossover is running.
2- Download "BuffBars" from here: https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...nfo.php?id=361
This will put a folder called BuffBars-2 into your ~/Downloads folder.
4- Download "BuffBars MaJ/Update 2017" from here: https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...fo.php?id=1000
This will put a folder called PengorosPlugins into your ~/Downloads folder.
5- Download "BuffBars MaJ/Update 2017 patch fixes" from here: https://www.lotrointerface.com/downl...fo.php?id=1155
6- This will put a folder called PengorosPlugins-2 into your ~/Downloads folder.
7- Open the folder ~/Downloads/Buffbars-2. Inside that folder you will find a folder called PengorosPlugins. Move ~/Downloads/BuffBars-2/PengorosPlugins to your ~/Desktop. Once you do the move, that folder should now be here:
~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins
8- Open the folder ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins and move the window to the bottom of your screen. This will be the DESTINATION window into which you will be putting parts of the other downloads.
8- Open the folder ~/Downloads/PengorosPlugins.
9- Move ~/Downloads/PengorosPlugins/BuffBars.plugin into ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins. Allow the BuffBars.plugin you are moving to REPLACE the one in the DESTINATION window.
10- Open the folder ~/Downloads/PengorosPlugins/BuffBars.
11- Select all 6 files inside ~Downloads/PengorosPlugins/BuffBars and drop them on top of the ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins/BuffBars folder. Allow the Finder to REPLACE all the files inside ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins/BuffBars with the files you are moving.
12- Open the folder ~/Downloads/PengorosPlugins/UI.
13- Move the file ~/Downloads/PengorosPlugins/UI/DragBar.lua to ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins/UI. Allow the DragBar.lua you are moving to REPLACE the one in the DESTINATION folder.
14- Open the folder ~Downloads/PengorosPlugins/UI/Resources.
15- Select all 3 files inside ~Downloads/PengorosPlugins/UI/Resources and drop them on top of the ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins/UI/Resources folder. Allow the Finder to REPLACE all the files inside ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins/UI/Resources with the files you are moving.
16- Open the folder ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins-2.
17- Move the two files BuffBars.plugin and BuffBars.patch1155.plugincompe ndium into ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins. Allow the BuffBars.plugin you are moving to REPLACE the one in the DESTINATION window. (The BuffBars.patch1155.plugincompe ndium will not replace anything, it is a new file.)
18- Open the folder ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins-2/BuffBars.
19- Select all 5 files inside ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins-2/BuffBars and drop them on top of the ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins/BuffBars folder. Allow the Finder to REPLACE all the files inside ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins/BuffBars with the files you are moving.
20- Move the ~/Desktop/PengorosPlugins folder inside your ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins folder. Once you've done that, the full path should look like this:
~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins/PengorosPlugins
21- Installation of BuffBars is complete! You should now be able to get into the game and enable BuffBars for the servers and characters with which you wish to use it.
--->>If you make a mistake, delete everything you downloaded and copied and moved and START OVER FROM THE BEGINNING.<<---
--->>If BuffBars fails to be recognized by LOTRO's in-game PluginManager, you made a mistake so quit out of the game and START OVER FROM THE BEGINNING.<<---
Last edited by Tralfazz; Jan 09 2022 at 10:37 AM.
Reason: changed a colon to a period
I decided to be a bit more helpful and provide you and anyone else who might read this with a more easily-installed version of BuffBars. All I did was create a folder with all the updates already applied. So all you have to do is download this file, un-zip it, and move the PengorosPlugins folder into your ~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins folder so that the full path when you're done looks like this:
~/Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins/PengorosPlugins
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztau3s28d2...ugins.zip?dl=0
Please note that this is updated and current as of 2022-01-09. Unless I remember (And don't count on that!) when future updates are released this file won't be changed to include those updates. But it's the latest version as of right now as I'm writing this.
While lotrointerface.com has their own site policy about distributing plugins this way, I sincerely doubt any of the authors would object. If any of the three authors of BuffBars or its patches wants me to remove this file, I will do so upon request.
All the usual caveats and provisos apply about downloading and installing something from some Internet rando like me. You don't know me! I could be a hacker! So you're always safer getting your plugins from lotrointerface.com or some other trusted source. But I know some people throw caution to the wind and don't have the patience to patch their plugins themselves, so here you go.