Board Thread:LotR Mod Technical Support/@comment-29701788-20160820153316/@comment-27516710-20160820225857

I have gotten shaders to work rather successfully with the LOTR.

There are some issues to be aware of:

LOTR mod time is longer than vanilla - the shaders rely on the in-game time to create shadows, so, since the time cycle is longer in ME than the OW this interferes with shaders doing day/night properly. Secondly, you need to enable shaders in the overworld first before going to Middle Earth. Create a portal if you have to but try going into the overworld first - this should eliminate the black screen issue. Thirdly, if you have issue still then you can actually copy the Middle Earth region files to the overworld - then it will work perfectly. Any mobs loaded when the game was quit will work in the overworld but eventually will despawn (except for hired units) - do this only for screenshots and you can get amazing stuff like this: