League of Legends Guide

league81.jpg


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.

league87.jpg


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"
wine01.png


Look for the Wine Version: 1.8
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
wine02.png


Click Next

Downloading Wine
wine04.png


Extracting

Downloading Gecko
wine05.png


Installed
wine06.png


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
league01.png


Fill out registration form
Click "Play For Free"
league02.png


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
league03.png


PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
league04.png


Click "Install a non-listed program"
league05.png


Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
league07.png


Name the virtual drive: leagueoflegends
Click Next
league08.png


Check all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next
league09.png


Select Wine 1.8
Click Next
league10a.png


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
league11.png


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows XP
league12.png


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
league13.png


PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)

Check the following:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next
league14.png


Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Installing League of Legends

Click Browse

Navigate to your Desktop
Select "LeagueOfLegendsBaseNA.exe"
Click Open
league16.png


Click Next again

Click Next
league21.png


Check "I accept the terms..."
Click Next
league22.png


Select "Complete"
Click Next
league23.png


Click Install
league24.png


Uncheck "Launch League of Legends"
Click Finish
league25.png


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "lol.launcher.exe"
Click Next
league26.png


Name the shortcut: League Of Legends
Click Next
league27.png


Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
league28.png


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "League of Legends"
Click Configure
league29.png


General Tab
Wine version: 1.8
league30a.png


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
league31.png


Close Configure

Launching League of Legends

Select League of Legends
Click Run
league32.png


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Click Accept
league33.png


Click Accept
league34.png


Updating & Patching
league35.png


Peer to Peer disable
Click the gear at the top right
Uncheck "Allow Peer to Peer Transfer"
league36.png


Click Launch
league37.png


Login
Check "Remember username"
league38.png


Click Play
league39.png


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
league40.png


league41.png



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:
league21.jpg


league82.jpg


league84.jpg


league27.jpg


league80.jpg


league89.jpg


league90.jpg


league87.jpg
 
Last edited:
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
 
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...
 
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 ?
 
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.
 
Back
Top