I installed LOTRO last week, before the speakers had arrived, so was playing the game with no sound plugged the newly arrived speakers in on Tuesday and had sound - sort of! Talk over dialogues worked, but nothing else!!! All the audio settings for the game were correct, and it was showing the correct audio device - but still not working. Back then, the release of Windows 95 meant an important step forward in multimedia capacity, especially. DirectX 11 comes along with very important updates in terms of the quality of graphics and sound, leading to much more realistic multimedia content. If it is any consolation, I have spent most of the week trying to sort out a sound issue on one of my PCs. 8/10 (109 votes) - Download DirectX 11 Free. Microsoft DirectX 11 is a group of technologies that integrate into Windows and adds the capabilities required to run many of the most popular PC gaming titles on Windows. this actually sometimes happens even without a new gfx driver in my several years of playing lotro, dx9 files have needed to be reinstalled twice for no obvious reason the 2010 dx9 installer is the better one to use, as it contains a number of dx10 & 11 files that arent in the dx9c installer from 2008. The driver package for the new card over-writes some of the dx9 files. Remember, LOTRO was coded long before multi gfx card use was possible. You have a mobo/cpu with built in gfx and havent disabled it in BIOS LOTRO is getting confused and trying to use the wrong adapter.
Other than new Win10 installs, where MS claim dx12 is backwards compatible (but it isnt), and wont auto install dx9-dx11 I can see 2 possible reasons for the above issues and fixes.