Enable a Google-Style Map of LOTRO InGame
Since I’ve begun playing LotRO, one of the more annoying things for me is constantly alt-tabbing out of the game to look for quest locations, learn more about dropped items and whatnot.
It’s an even bigger pain because anytime you alt-tab from a DirectX or OpenGL application it can cause memory leaks, which hinder performance. And for some reason I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL out of the game into the Task Manager – I’m not able to alt-tab with LotRO. I don’t even want to talk about trying to alt-tab into Firefox while I’m standing outside the Prancing Pony in Bree.
Well, I just came across this webpage that gives step-by-step instructions on enabling a Google-style map inside the game! That’s a HUGE advantage when looking for specific locations. This allows you to look at, for instance, the Arda-Online map within the game.
There’s no word yet on whether or not this is legal, but nobody has complained about being reprimanded for it. In fact, word is that Turbine plans to implement this feature for the in-game Lorebook browser when it finally hits.
I know when playing fullscreen tabbing between apps is a pain.
This is why I play in windowed mode, setting the size of the window to my fullscreen – the taskbar (I like having my taskbar visible to click on the browser i got open as well as tabbing)
In windowed mode I have never any issues, not even a millisecond delay in graphic refresh or lag when tabbing back to the game.
I used to have some issues when tabbing in windowed mode with refresh speeds but once I upgraded my RAM to 2gigs it disappeared.
When using multi-apps (games and browsers), having 2gigs is recommended for multi-threading applications.
Personally I prefer the Browser as I don’t like opening stuff in-game as I can tab faster than I can close screens in-game in-case I get attacked.
Most recently I got a second monitor and now work of split-monitor few, so I can play fullscreen on one while having the browser on the other , also fullscreen.
Works like a treat
Followed instructions, typing /bug just opens the regular Bug Submission window.