League of Legends Guide

Static · Nov 30, 2013

I followed you process step by step, THANK YOU. very easy! But i have encountered an issue. When i launch the game, the League of Legends logo apears. but just freezes, do you know the issue?

booman · Dec 2, 2013

I need some more information on your computer...
What Distro are you running?
Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
What video card do you have?
Did you install the drivers for the video card?

Can you run other games on your computer?

All of these are critical to a successful gaming experience.

OctoWorm · Dec 4, 2013

I've found that the shop only works for some updates, and tends to be broken more than it works, but you are still able to purchase skins and champions from the 'Champions' category of your profile.

booman · Dec 4, 2013

Welcome to the forum OctoWorm!
I have yet to get the shop to work.
What version of Wine are you using?

inter001 · Dec 13, 2013

Hi booman,
I find your guide very helpful, but I got common dbghelp/wininet error, which I cannot take care of...
I've installed LoL on wine 1.7-LoL instead of 1.6.4rc, everythings working fine until login. Game crashes when it wants to authenticate my account. If I turn off dbghelp library game doesn't crash but it cannot connect to server.
Any ideas? (installing wininet from 'configure--->install components' doesn't change a thing)

booman · Dec 13, 2013

I originally had this problem too, but when I unchecked "peer-to-peer" in the options, it let me login.
Yeah, setting dbghelp to anything but default doesn't help.
I know it has something to do with wininet, but have not found a solution yet.
Also try Wine 1.5.24-LeagueOfLegendsShop too. I've had success with it in the past.

inter001 · Dec 17, 2013

Unfortunately P2P solution doesn't work for me (Mint 15 32-bit).

If you find a way how to bypass dbghelp bug, please let me know.

booman · Dec 17, 2013

Oh I will. I'll actually include it in my Guide.
If you want to read up on PlayOnLinux... here is the post with 4 pages:
League of Legends

SonicMaster7773 · Dec 19, 2013

Okay so I finally got to a computer that will be able to run league. I got everything installed and working and league allowed me to update, but then while trying to log in, it just crashes. Boop. Nothin. No warning messages. No ideas as to why, either. And the P2P uncheck fix did nothing as well. *sigh*

SonicMaster7773 · Dec 19, 2013

OKAY SO I WAS ABLE TO LAUNCH THE GAME AND HAD NO PROBLEMS OPENING THE SHOP @-@

Bodhi Linux 32-bit
3GB DDR1 Ram
128 MB AMD ATI Radeon 9800 series graphics card

I used /THIS/ guide to install. Then it would crash while trying to login.

I found this
https://bitbucket.org/Xargoth/tuxlol/wiki/Home

tuxlol patched some files, and I was finally able to login.

Then I had the issue of a black loading screen in which case it proceeded to crashed Enlightenment E17 in Bodhi Linux.

Now, in order to fix the black screen,, I found this:
http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3834522

So open up yer command prompt of choice, and run these in turn:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn0

Now, it DID take me a while to start loading, but after it started it loaded up to 100% rather quickly. It took like 3 minutes for my old machine to allow me to enter the game, however as soon as I turned the graphics settings down(netting me a whole <5 FPS), I was able to hit 'P' to open the shop and was able to purchase Berserker's Greaves and a doran's blade for sivir no problem.

I was able to lock the camera to her by hitting 'Y', and then ran out to my lane.

Now, given the fact that I had like 3 FPS, I couldnt do much, but I figure that somebody here would appreciate the fact that I got it working

i will most likely just have to install my windows xp disc on a second partition if I wish to play on this computer, but I feel accomplished that I was able to get it to work.

booman · Dec 19, 2013

Wow, yes! Thank you for posting some solutions. I don't know how you found them

Of course the question is... what do we do now?

That is a lot of work-arounds and you have to apply them every time there is an update.
I wonder why Wine can't handle mipmaps smaller than one block?
Maybe this is something unique to games or online games?
You may want to post this in the PlayOnLinux forum too... there are a lot of LoL players there posting about the login & store problems.
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/forums.html

SonicMaster7773 · Dec 19, 2013

No problem

I posted here, not sure if it is the correct place though. They have a weird hierarchy for their forum.

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-8868-3.html

booman · Dec 19, 2013

I subscribed to that thread in case anyone replies

mpgoodwin · Dec 20, 2013

I'm unsure if I should start a new thread or just post my status/problem here.

booman · Dec 20, 2013

I moved your replies to the PlayOnLinux area here:
http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/league-of-legends-help.471/

morgancat · Dec 27, 2013

Hi
Thank you for your guide.
i followed your guide and everything went fine up to when i actually try to run the game

I can adjurn to the latest patch but as soon as insert my login credential the system just crash and it close the virtual desktop. i tried se the 1.7 version but didn't help much. what can i do?
I'm using a 64 system but i have installed it on the 86 part of play on linux.
I can run starcraft 2 so i should be able to run LoL.
Once againthank you a lot

morgancat · Dec 27, 2013

this is the report that the console give me
PlayOnLinux: ~/.PlayOnLinux/shortcuts > ./League\ of\ Legends
[POL_Wine_SetVersionEnv] Message: Setting wine version path: 1.7-LeagueOfLegends, x86
[POL_Wine_SetVersionEnv] Message: "/home/amos/.PlayOnLinux//wine/linux-x86/1.7-LeagueOfLegends" exists
[POL_Wine] Message: Running wine-1.7-LeagueOfLegends lol.launcher.admin.exe
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe"
[POL_Wine] Message: Wine return: 0
PlayOnLinux: ~/.PlayOnLinux/shortcuts > wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x630020c4 at address 0x77ea7316 (thread 0039), starting debugger...
err:dbghelp

e_load_dbg_file Couldn't find .DBG file "dll\\wininet.dbg" ("\xf2\xceE\xf7\x01\x80\xad\xfb \xc53")

booman · Dec 28, 2013

Welcome to the forum morgancat!
Unfortunately this is very common with the current League of Legends patch.
I've seen that "dbghelp" error all over the place. Everyone is getting it.
I even got it, but found that disabling "peer to peer" may have fixed it for me, but it didn't work for anyone else.

As soon as there is a permanent fix for it, I will definitely post it here

Liewyec · Jan 19, 2014

Hi, i tried replace the wininet.dll with this one http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?wininet. Now it doesn't crash but i still can't connect.

Wolfgang Dawson · Jan 20, 2014

I'm in the installation process right now, and after I click on the launcher and go through the installshieldwizard, I'm just ending up with a black screen. It won't actually take me to the client to update. Thats through the manual installation because the other way was just crashing