‘Lord Of The Rings Online Riders Of Rohan’ Expansion Suffers Major Technical Issues
I love Lord Of The Rings. I have read the books at least once a year for the last 47 years, and I have played Lord Of The Rings Online since the first beta. I was looking forward to playing the new Riders Of Rohan expansion and telling The Inquisitr‘s readers all about a terrific new LOTRO expansion. Then I tried to install the new files, and, well folks, I am just about ready to scream.
Turbine needs to get on the stick and fix this mess. An entire afternoon wasted trying to install the expansion, only to encounter one error after the other. I didn’t think it was possible for a person to get so many different errors from installing one MMO, but I sure found out differently today.
A sinking feeling hit my stomach the first time my patcher hung up on “Examine Programs.” I quickly got online and read as many forum posts as I could find on problems installing the game. I must admit I was stunned by the virtual non-existence of any official replies to the hundreds and hundreds of pleas for help from players with similar problems. I even read that some extremely patient players waited as long as an hour with this particular error, hoping the install would finally resume before they quit in frustration.
Using advice from other players on the forums (Thank you, Warriorpoetex), I was able to overcome the ”Examine Programs” issue by restarting the patcher every time it hung up until it finally proceeded to the next step.
It didn’t take long before I was hit with the annoying “unspecified patch error.” I was even able to work around this problem until the “Unable to decrypt and de-serialize the data downloaded from the server” notice appeared on my screen. Unable to make any headway against this final error, I was forced to uninstall LOTRO three times. I am now on my fourth attempt to install the game, and it just failed again as I am typing this article.
Today’s misadventures reminded me of the legend of Robert Bruce and the spider: If you don’t succeed, try try again. But really Tubine, I am not Robert Bruce or the little engine that could, finally making it to the top of the hill after umpteen tries. I am a busy person who values every minute I have free to enjoy my favorite online games and this is an unmitigated disaster. I have often been highly critical of people who gripe on the forums, but now they are all on my list to receive sympathetic Christmas cards.
The unfortunate part of this entire story is not the time I wasted but the making you wait to read about the LOTRO expansion. I was really looking forward to sharing a hands-on, in-game review of Riders Of Rohan with all of you, but that will just have to wait until later tonight or tomorrow or as soon as Turbine joins the big leagues and gets their patch servers working properly. Until then, happy gaming friends. I’m going back to playing World Of Warcraft.
Tags : Lord of the Rings, lord of the rings expansion, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online expansion, lotro, lotro expansion suffers major issues, lotro patcher issues, riders of rohan, riders of rohan install issues, riders of rohan uninstallable, turbine
Posted: October 15, 2012
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Oct 16, 2012
whoah there wolfie…
here is the fix.
I had the same thing happen to me and there have been others as well but not a huge amount (many are quietly and thoroughly enjoying the new game). and there is a fix! it worked for me. it has worked for others. it is on the Lord of the Rings Forums. if you are experiencing issues, always check the forums.
this works, try it:
yellow sticky post it note: all clicks, unless otherwise stated, are single LEFT clicks (and by "clicks" I mean: quickly and firmly tapping the appropriate mouse button. "double click" means, unless otherwise stated, to tap the LEFT mouse button twice in succession, rapidly).
1)click"Start" on your main windows toolbar (usually located in the lower left corner of the main Windows startup screen).
2)click "Computer" from the resulting menu that pops up (this is also sometimes called "My Computer").
3)RIGHT click on the hard drive letter designation (usually c:) where the the folders and files described in steps 5) through 10) are located.
4)click on "Open" from the resulting new menu that appears.
5)double click the folder "program files (x86)".
6)double click the folder "turbine".
7)double click the folder "The Lord of the Rings Online".
10)delete the following files (to delete: RIGHT click on the appropriate file, after the new menu opens, choose "Delete"):
client_anim.dat
client_cell_1.dat
client_cell_2.dat
client_gamelogic.dat
client_general.dat
client_local_English.dat
client_map_1.dat
client_map_2.dat
client_mesh.dat
client_sound.dat
client_surface.dat
11)restart the lotro game client by double left clicking on your desktop icon (hint: it looks like a large golden ring). you will recieve a message reading the launcher either is or needs updating. follow the guided steps from there and you're almost ready to join the nerdfest!
12)repeat as necessary (it might take a couple of cycles).
13)relax (to relax: get some sleep, take a walk, take a pill, etc. as appropriate, until relaxed).
14)enjoy
p.s. the forum post is titled: Update 8, Riders of Rohan, Official (and there is a direct link to this from the launcher, click where it says to click for the "Update 8 release notes" under the article titled Welcome to Rohan! This solution is listed at the bottom by a very nice and informative "nilyave": nice post, nilyave! thank you! it includes a link to the appropriate turbine support article.
your troubles are over, Dude… now that wasn't quite the "unmitigated disaster" you made it out to be, now was it?
"Toobold": Tuckborough Troublemaker (Firefoot)
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Oct 16, 2012
I'm making $186 an hour working from home. I was shocked when my neighbor told me she was averaging $95 but I see how it works now. I feel so much freedom now that I'm my own boss. This is what I do, Fox80.cøm.
Oct 17, 2012
one of my one of the things which flares me up, is that Turbine does not have tech support available on the phone. The only way you can get them to notice your problems is by sending a ticket, but though I have allready placed several for this and other issues, I have not received a single answer and my issues are still unsolved. I feel as though I'm sending the tickets to a damp dark basement where they'll rot. Its ridiculous that you have to look to the forums or elsewhere for a solution to your issues if one is found at all.
Oct 19, 2012
Mine installed flawlessly, first day. Took about an hour. I wouldn't blame Turbine for their install not being flawless on every system.
Dec 21, 2012
How did you got through the unspecified patch error?
Jan 30, 2013
ERROR 40001 Unspecified Patch Error
Just wanna tell everybody that disabling the antivirus was the One and only solution that worked for me. None of the older threads nor solutions even worked, and i did try all of them before disabling antivirus. I've disabled avast, then run the lotro. That's it.
By the way, my system specs are:
Windows 7 64 bits Ultimate
LOTRO free client up to date (30/01/2013)
AVAST! antivirus
Admin account
Hope you find this usefull.
Namarië,
Juan