lotro + bot and vmware issues

[jonmale]

Hi - bit off topic I know...

anyone running lotro in vmware with bot?

had issues with lotro client u11 that seemed sorted by taking ownership of lotro dir, ran all ok untill today - seems lotro server sees its a vmware machine running lotro and then wont connect with a client error!? 'internal error please contact customer support'

This seems to be the case with win7 / win 8 & XP vmware PC's, works on 1st install then stops with same error.

Anyone have a workaround?

thanks

[bob]

The internal error is normally that it needs certain values in the UserPreferences.ini file in the Documents folder (not Documents\The Lord Of the Rings Online folder)

This was formerly known as LuncherPreferences,.xml, but T fucked up when they changed to the new launcher.

Anyway, that error normally comes up when you haven't managed to accept the licence agreement.

The workaround is to change language, download the new language files, change back to your original language (may need to restart launcher), and it then usually works.

or you could try my UserPreferences.ini file (you'll need to replace partiular values which I've XXX'd out)

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[Launcher]
allowmultipleinstances=true
firstrun=false
lastplayedworld=XXXXXXXX
lastplayedworldtime=1368949042779
username=XXXXXXXX
selectlastplayedworld=false
lastlocale=en-US
loadonstartup=false
askbeforedownload=false
throttledownload=false
throttledownloadrate=4
autoretrieveupdates=true
autoretrieveupdatesinterval=24
minimizetotray=false

[DownloadFileTimes]
DownloadFilesList-xml="Mon, 23 May 2011 10:04:28"
raw-en-logo-lotro_ad_pregame-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:38:15"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_01-jpg="Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:15:31"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_02-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:38:15"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_03-jpg="Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:55:37"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_04-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:38:15"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_05-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:24"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_06-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:24"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_07-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:24"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_08-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:38:15"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_09-jpg="Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:17:44"
raw-en-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_10-jpg="Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:08:39"
raw-de-logo-lotro_ad_pregame_de-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:37:46"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_01-jpg="Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:15:21"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_02-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:37:46"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_03-jpg="Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:55:28"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_04-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:37:46"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_05-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:06"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_06-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:06"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_07-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:06"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_08-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:37:46"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_09-jpg="Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:37:50"
raw-de-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_10-jpg="Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:08:24"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_ad_pregame_fr-jpg="Tue, 07 May 2013 20:15:15"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_01-jpg="Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:15:41"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_02-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:38:42"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_03-jpg="Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:55:47"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_04-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:38:42"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_05-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:44"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_06-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:44"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_07-jpg="Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:44:44"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_08-jpg="Mon, 13 May 2013 18:38:42"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_09-jpg="Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:18:02"
raw-fr-logo-lotro_generic_teleport_screen_10-jpg="Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:09:09"
ReqSoftware-xml="Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:34"
en-LOTRO_Eula-html="Mon, 13 May 2013 17:53:24"
en-LOTRO_TOS-html="Mon, 13 May 2013 17:53:24"

[HttpProxy]
HttpProxyAccess=Direct
HttpProxy=:0
HttpProxyAuthenticate=false
HttpProxyUsername=
HttpProxyPassword=
HttpProxyBypass=

[jonmale]

thankyou

I added these lines that were missing from my //documents/userpreferences.ini

lastlocale=en-US
loadonstartup=false
askbeforedownload=false
throttledownload=false
throttledownloadrate=4
autoretrieveupdates=true
autoretrieveupdatesinterval=24
minimizetotray=false

seemed to work/let me in now... strange...

[bob]

yep, the new launcher is crappy as it needs a number of the ini settings, but doesn't create them until certain things are clicked on/phases reached in the login process.

Glad its working for you now.

[jonmale]

it was working fine even with update 11 after ownership issues, just stopped today for no reason on all three OS i have installed / tried. It connected to world ok just booted me out on load of game screen after world queue. All were running fine yesterday!?

thanks again for help/quick response - guess you a fellow gmt player?

[bob]

working.... but monitor the forum.