League of Legends Guide

Call on your Summoner to battle along-side minions in the free-to-play MOBA. Level up, buy upgrades from the store and play cooperative with some friends. League of Legends has a lot of competitive action and fighting as you slaughter minions, turrets and Summoners.

League of Legends has received a lot of attention in the Linux world. WineHQ's and PlayOnLinux are constantly bombarded with questions on how to run it.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing League Of Legends in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Official Website version of League Of Legends. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.8
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.8 is installed and you can close this window

Create Account
Go To: https://login.leagueoflegends.com/
Click "Create an Account"

Click preferred language

Fill out registration form
Click "Play For Free"

Download League Of Legends Installer

LeagueOfLegendsBaseEUW (Europe West)
http://l3cdn.riotgames.com/Installer/SingleFileInstall/LeagueOfLegendsBaseEUW.exe

LeagueOfLegendsBaseEUNE (Europe Nordic East)
http://l3cdn.riotgames.com/Installer/SingleFileInstall/LeagueOfLegendsBaseEUNE.exe

LeagueOfLegendsBaseNA (North America)
http://l3cdn.riotgames.com/Installer/SingleFileInstall/LeagueOfLegendsBaseNA.exe

Navigate to Desktop
Click Save

PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

Click "Install a non-listed program"

Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next

Name the virtual drive: leagueoflegends
Click Next

Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next

Select Wine 1.8
Click Next

Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows XP

Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: Enter resolution of Linux Desktop
Click OK

PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Installing League of Legends

Click Browse

Navigate to your Desktop
Select "LeagueOfLegendsBaseNA.exe"
Click Open

Click Next again

Click Next

Check "I accept the terms..."
Click Next

Select "Complete"
Click Next

Click Install

Uncheck "Launch League of Legends"
Click Finish

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "lol.launcher.exe"
Click Next

Name the shortcut: League Of Legends
Click Next

Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "League of Legends"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 1.8

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.

Display Tab
Video memory size: Select the amount of memory your video card/chip uses

Close Configure

Launching League of Legends

Select League of Legends
Click Run

Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Click Accept

Click Accept

Updating & Patching

Peer to Peer disable
Click the gear at the top right
Uncheck "Allow Peer to Peer Transfer"

Click Launch

Login
Check "Remember username"

Click Play

Optimization

Press Esc
Click Options

Click Video

Adjust:

• Resolution
• Windowed Mode
• Graphics Presets
• Character Quality
• Effects Quality
• Environment Quality
• Shadows
• Character Inking
• Frame Rate Cap
• Anti-Aliasing
• Wait for Vertical Sync

Click Okay

Conclusion:
League of Legends runs even better with Wine 1.8 I've read you may experience better performance with Wine 1.8-staging as well. I had no problems with my GeForce 550 Ti 192-bit 1GB RAM.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Thanks for the easy and great guide, but I'm having one problem. Everything went good with downloading and logging in and I got into champoinselect, but after that my loading screen went black and nothing happend. I read some other forums too, and it might be a Driver problem, do u know anything about this? I am using Ubuntu 12.04

You are in a tight-spot. Ubuntu 12.04 is getting kinda old, but is pretty dang stable. Are you using 64-bit Ubuntu? Can you play any other games?

 

You are in a tight-spot. Ubuntu 12.04 is getting kinda old, but is pretty dang stable. Are you using 64-bit Ubuntu? Can you play any other games?

I am using 32-bit Ubuntu, playing game... most of games I play support Linux (Dota 2, Cs 1.6), I actualy have more than 2 Gb of Ram, because I upgraded my computer little time ago, sorry for my bad enlgish.

 

Perfect, that is good. Sounds like you have everything setup for games.
The next step is a debug output.

1. Open PlayOnLinux
2. Select League of Legends
3. Click Debug (on the right side)
4. Copy everything in the debug
5. Post in the forum here: PlayOnLinux

 

Hello i have a large problem after i instal everything i pres run and then i get error by wine
http://i58.tinypic.com/9jdbfp.png

 

Also here is the debug http://pastebin.com/PsyBudB4

 

I had same problem like narutovios had one day, LoL's new patch might have cause it!

 

I bet you are right. I'll launch LoL and see if it loads a new patch. If yes, then we will have to wait for someone to patch Wine. Sucks for us...

 

By the way at picture you have also tick at POL_Install tahoma but you dont have at the list so we install or no ?

 

I didn't notice that I didn't include Tahoma. I always add Tahoma to every game.

 

Im running ubuntu 13.10 OS and trying to play league of legends through playonlinux but evertime after champ select i freeze at 0% during the load screen. I just installed ubuntu 13.10 and league of legends. I did this bc when i was using kubuntu i was experiencing the same issue. How do i fix this and what can be causing this?

 

I'm glad you made it to the loading screen. What video card are you using?
Can you play other games on your Ubuntu Distro?
The best indicator of what is going on will be sending us your Debug output.
Next time you launch League of Legends select the game and click "Debug" instead of Run.
Then copy and paste the output here: PlayOnLinux

 

06/26/14 10:31:32] - Running wine-1.7.19-LeagueOfLegends lol.launcher.exe (Working directory : /home/mkt/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/leagueoflegends/drive_c/Riot Games/League of Legends)
( ERROR)[10:31:32.334] RADS::Common::RegistryHelp::RegKeyValueString::RegKeyValueString: Failed to find registry value "ProgramW6432Dir" (2).
fixme:msvcp:_Locinfo__Locinfo_ctor_cat_cstr (0x33f8c4 1 C) semi-stub

ubuntu 14 04 x64 amd procesor ati radeon 8670m graphic card 8 gb ram working dota 2 and other sort of games

 

Glad DOTA2 is running. This means you have the proper 32-bit libraries installed for games. MSCVP is Microsoft Visual C so if you followed this guide you probably installed vcrun2005 and vcrun2008
I wonder if installing vcrun6 and vcrun2010 will help?

 

Hi, i have done everything as you described... I was able to lauch, patch and log in. But when I'm starting a match it just appear a black screen instead of the champ images... Would you have any idea how to solve it ?

 

Im with linux mint 16 32 bit

 

Not sure, what video card/chip are you using?
Do you have proprietary drivers installed?
Check Additional Drivers in Menu/Administration

 

Idk what is my chip, ive got a VAIO notebook... not very new, not very old... I was able to play lol in it before when i had windows... What you mean, to check additional drivers in linux? how do i do that ?

 

What is the model of your VAIO?
In Mint click:
Menu> Administration> Additional Drivers
or
Menu> System Tools> Device Drivers
or
Menu> Preferences> Device Drivers

Its somewhere in there...

 

I have a driver manager... But when it open it doesnt show anything its blank... I was trying to look for some intel driver installer i've read about, but i couldnt install it, i do not know how to use the prompt much... but the reason lol isnt working is probably beacause of having no drivers installed, i installed the linux mint few days ago. Do you know some way i can get the drivers installed?

 

Oh, if you have Intel video chip, then the drivers are already installed. This may be the problem. I have a Chromebook with an Intel HD 2000 video chip and it won't play games like League of Legends.
What exact model VAIO do you have? I'll look it up and see what video chip you have.