Kalex's Tome

This tip only applies to people using Windows Vista or Windows 7.

With the game completely shut off (logged out and no launcher running on the taskbar), navigate to your “My Documents” folder for Windows Vista or the “Documents” folder for Windows 7 and open it.  Open the “The Lord of the Rings” folder.  Find the file called UserPreferences.ini and make a backup of it in the same folder, just as a precaution.

Open the file in notepad.  Find the line that says “AllowDesktopCompositing=False” and change it to “AllowDesktopCompositing=True”.  Save the file and exit notepad.

Start up the game and it should not switch to Windows basic.  If it does, see if the file has changed itself back to False.