LOTRO has it available, it's just a matter of getting Crossover set up so that LOTRO will detect that DirectX 11 is an available graphics mode for it to use. Things look beautiful with DirectX 9, I have no major complaints with it.Įven so, I thought I'd try DirectX 11. DirectX 10 is a better choice when not in one of the areas where those glitches happen, but you can't switch between DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 without quitting and restarting the game so it's really better to just stick with DirectX 9. DirectX 10 doesn't have those issues but it has really major ugly glitches in certain areas that cause landscape objects to flicker between their normal appearance and bright white (in Rivendell and the Shire and, to a lesser extent, Evendim based on my testing so far), and it doesn't handle water very well causing some river beds such as in Evendim to appear less full of water than they should or completely empty depending on the position and angle at which they are being observed plus things like the mist at the Rivendell waterfalls at the bridges just aren't handled well at all. It's not a big deal in any way, you get used to it and none of it breaks immersion. DirectX 9 has a few minor graphics glitches mostly related to drawing distant target circles, nearby AoE squares (such as a Lore Master's tar patches), and some shadows and lighting effects get cut off in odd ways when moving through some areas. If your choice is between DirectX 9 and DirectX 10, I suggest you stick with DirectX 9.

Once the game is installed and you've gotten it to run successfully at least one time, you can enable DirectX 10 if you want to. then you know that LOTRO runs great with Crossover and Big Sur. If you have time on your hands and read my entire thread about Crossover and Big Sur here.

So just for fun I thought I'd try running LOTRO using DirectX 11.

Directx11 install