Playing League of Legends Help with FPS

Hey Guys,

I recently have returned to the FLOSS world and decided to give wine a try. Needless to say, 5 years ago there was no such thing as PlayOnLinux, and steam wasn't even relatively a thing. I'm really excited to see the progress.

I currently have League of Legends installed and running as of LoL 4.10. I played a bot game and it didn't crash. Woot! Now if I'm going to trust this rig when I go into ranked I need help bumping up my FPS and preventing serious drops in frame rate. As it stands right now, my frame rate will peak well above 50, but the problem is consistency. How can I stop dropping frames?

Before you start reccommending simple things, let me answer some simple questions:
I installed the game by following this guide, pretty much to the T, except, screw unity and ubuntu: http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/06/install-league-legends-ubuntu-14-04/

I'm running ElementaryOS.
I used PlayOnLinux and Tuxlol to get the game installed, as noted in the guide.
I am using proprietary drivers on my Nvidia card.
I've already dropped all the in-game settings to their minimums.
I run the game on the same resolution as my Linux desktop, but I'm not emulating a WINE desktop.
I run the game in full screen mode.

Here are my questions:

Are there common League-Specific tweaks?
Are there any things you guys need from me about my system for you to help? (If yes, what and how do I find that information on my system?)
Are there common wine .dll files that I should be replacing with real windows .dlls?
Are there Wine settings that I'm missing? Compatibility modes, registry entries, process priority?

Glad to get a response!
I'm running a Geforce GTX 560 M (2gb).
I'm now off ElementaryOS, since I think their home brew environment may have been causing the issues, I'm now on a variant of Lubuntu (peppermint). It runs really well, is much more stable, and it's pretty light weight. I'll try getting some numbers out of the system tonight when I get it firing on all cylinders again.

Ok, so the results are in. LXDE (w/ open box)is much better for League's performance, but I'm still seeing frame rate instability. Peaks well above 100, but sits around 50 with common dips below 30. I noticed I had better performance with the sound disabled, but as my game dragged on the frame rate slowly came back to 50. Thoughts?

Also, I have the out of game store bug that crashes the client, I thought Wine had been patched to fix that?

Post game my client gets cropped to a 1024x768 box, so I'm unable to actually see the chat area on the right hand side of the client.

I'm running the Wine config in windows 7 mode.

Last but not least I'm only seeing a few Library listed in the override Wine Config: msvcr80 (native, builtin
), msvcr90 (native, builtin), and wininet (native, builtin). I see that other people have made other overrides in the past, but maybe most of that is out dated?

Ultimately, League is not playable, but I wouldn't go onto ranked yet.

Thanks in advance!

Woops, quick edit, I found that resizing the client window refreshes the page and I can see the chat edge again.

I suppose it also goes without saying that I'm using 1.7.19-LeagueOfLegends2 (should be most recent).

PeppermintOS 5 (based on lubuntu 14.04)

Gonna try installing the most recent Nvidia Driver, (337) and replacing the 331 version that's in the ubuntu repo.

Alright. I threw a beta Driver from the Nvidia Site (340.17) I now have much better frame rates, consistently above 60 now. Still running on minimum settings etc. and Sound still hurts my performance as well.

I'm amazed. 4 years ago I was trying to migrate to Linux and ended up back on Windows because of driver problems and lack of compatability. Today, I'm about 1 week away from erasing my dual boot, and turning it into a VM. Should I post a walk through of everything I did to get to this point?

Hey, Just an update, today's patch caused a little issue when I tried to run the software, I fixed by using an XP compatibility mode and having it capture the mouse in full screen.

The launcher wouldn't start up at all.

If I wrote a guide, would you mind if I took some bits from your guide? I'm currently working on trying to get it to work on other distributions like Built on Arch, .RPM distributions (OpenSuse, Fedora, CentOS, and Mageia), and one for .Deb distributions (Ubuntu, Mint and their many many children).

Oh, No I resolved the issues I was having by simply making the changes I wrote before. The symptoms were that the launcher simply failed. I thought that Mint 17 was built off Ubuntu 14.04 which is what I'm on, but I may be wrong.

I'd be fine with actually posting the tutorial on this site. I frequent reddit more often, and since that is where the big league of legends community is, I'd probably post links there on the /r/LeagueofLegends and /r/Linux_Gaming subreddits. The Ubuntu, Mint, and Arch Forums are pretty big too, so I'd put links on those as well. Naturally, since my personal goal is to get a pretty thorough guide for the big distributions, this will take some time before anything comes out.

I will do my best. So, it looks like something changed in the out of game store over the weekend that prevents it from opening again. Is there anything I can do to help? I'm looking at it, and playing with it. I have a debug read out, and I had a bug report file, but I don't know where it saved atm. I can also give details to whoever needs them.