Lord of the Rings Online Tips

Launcher problems - Linux

Currently as of this post the LOTRO launcher from Turbine has some problems that I haven't found a solution for other than just trying.

The first is an error message that popups up almost immediately after starting the game. Its a windows titled Program Error withe following text "The program TurbineLauncher.exe has encounter a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." all you can do at this point is click Close and relaunch the game. This pops up about 10-20% of the time when starting LOTRO. Fortunately simply restarting the game will once or twice will get you past this.

The second problem happens when the main launcher screen starts and try to start the patching process. It often gets stuck on "Retrieving content list from Akamai..." Some times this will progress on and if you see the progress bars move at all the game should continue on just fine without any other issues. However I've also left this screen up for 20+ minutes without any changes. So I normally give it 1-2 min and if no progress I just close it down and relaunch the game.

Note neither of these problems affect the game once it gets running for real. The problems only show up when first starting the launcher and once patching starts it seems to run just fine.

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