massive random fps drop

[Q]

this didn't happen back in 2022 and its not my potato pc ive tried this game with 1660 super, 4060 oc, ryzen 5600 and 5800x3d.

i'll explain, fps go above and beyond 100 fps in normal game but somehow when i enter new zones or even inside the haunted burrow or the spooky zone where you find the cats and scare the hobbits during halloween event... fps can go down to 10-15 or 30 then back to 100+ fps the low fps last few seconds tho

i remember first time i noticed this was during midsummre festival, somehow felt very laggy, in 2022 midsummer was perfect, minas tiruth had zero performance issues but this year i remember fps dropping specially in upper zone and i even remember people saying that winter home was up so people would go there and split the "load" between two events?

does anyone why this is happening? its not a hardware issue, my computers have beyond recommend specs for lotro and it wasnt like this two years ago, anyways thx in advance.

[Harvain]

It's just LOTRO and how everything is for FPS. It's pretty common to see FPS fluctuate, FPS drops, etc.

[Q]

well something is wrong no doubt, even takes up to two minutes to shutdown and switching characters the same. Last time i played was during farmers faire festival and i didn't experience such thing and now i came back for halloween festival and there's an obvious performance issue.

[Kormach]

There are a lot of people on the forums now saying they are having issues with lock ups and CTD's. No one is sure what is causing it, whether it was the last LoTRO update, a Windows update, or some kind of GPU driver issue.

[Q]

i've been reading the official forums, seems like im not the only one and this has happened for some years now.
some say it's due playing with the 64bit client, some others say its a memory leak etc and gotta repair the client and even delete specific files in lotro folder so the repair option in launcher creates a fresh copy of such files etc.

well from experience i better save my graphic settings, UI settings etc who knows maybe repairing the client will delete user settings, anyways i'll share the links later.

[Drusyc]

Originally posted by Berries and Cream:

i've been reading the official forums, seems like im not the only one and this has happened for some years now.
some say it's due playing with the 64bit client, some others say its a memory leak etc and gotta repair the client and even delete specific files in lotro folder so the repair option in launcher creates a fresh copy of such files etc.

well from experience i better save my graphic settings, UI settings etc who knows maybe repairing the client will delete user settings, anyways i'll share the links later.

From what I've heard and experienced, it seems to be just an accepted experience at this point, which really sucks.

[SHODANFreeman]

Sometimes this can be caused by fragmentation of the game's files, in my past experiences. There used to be a defrag tool specifically for LOTRO, but you could try a standard defrag tool on the game folder.

[redbrixeli]

It's just the game.

I had a pc with
1650S 4gb vram
Ryzen 5 3500
16gb ram

it would run 72fps at its highest, but would tank out of nowhere.

I now have
3060 12gb vram
Ryzen 5 5600gt
16gb ram

The game still acts the same! I honestly have no clue how people are running with game with apparently no dips in frames.

Some things that do help is toggling off the 3d portrait, and shadow stencils. It helps a bit but you'll still notice drops here and there.