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Help defraging your LOTRO dat files
Topic Started: Feb 28 2010, 12:50 PM (323 Views)
Macalaure
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The utility “datdefrag.exe” is a tool that can aid in decreasing load times of files for LOTRO. It does so by defragmenting the largest of the game files (the ones ending in .dat) in the installation folder and defragging the “internal” files contained within these dat files.

The "datdefrag.exe" tool has been shown to:

*Speed up game loads
*Speed up teleports
*Reduce hitching (not all hitching, just load-related hitches)

Due to patching, the contents of these large files often get fragmented within the containing “.dat” file itself. This tool addresses this issue because, unlike Windows Defrag, it also defrags the files internal structure, better enabling the game to load the contents of these files.

NOTE: This tool creates a brute force degramentation, which means that it is copying the defragmented .dat files to a new file before deleting the old one. Due to the brute force defragmentation, you must have at least the space of the largest .dat file available free on your game drive.

NOTE: There are issues downloading with Internet Explorer at the moment. Please try downloading the zip with alternate browsers for now.

This worked for me, maybe it will help you speed up the page loads and such.

Zipped Dat file defragmentation help
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