League of Legends Guide

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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.

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

Downloading Wine
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Extracting

Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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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
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Fill out registration form
Click "Play For Free"
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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
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PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name the virtual drive: leagueoflegends
Click Next
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Check all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 1.8
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows XP
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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
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PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)

Check the following:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next
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Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Installing League of Legends

Click Browse

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

Click Next
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Check "I accept the terms..."
Click Next
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Select "Complete"
Click Next
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Click Install
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Uncheck "Launch League of Legends"
Click Finish
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "lol.launcher.exe"
Click Next
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Name the shortcut: League Of Legends
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "League of Legends"
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 1.8
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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
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Close Configure

Launching League of Legends

Select League of Legends
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Click Accept
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Click Accept
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Updating & Patching
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Peer to Peer disable
Click the gear at the top right
Uncheck "Allow Peer to Peer Transfer"
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Click Launch
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Login
Check "Remember username"
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Click Play
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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
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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:
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booman
I haven't tested League of Legends in a while so there could be another update that broke something.
Do you have 32-bit libraries installed?
What about your video card/chip... did you install the proprietary drivers?

Next time you launch League of Legends, please click "debug" instead of "run"
Then copy the output of deubug and post it here: PlayOnLinux
 
N
Sry for the late reply. After reading your message, I realized I didnt installed my grapic driver xD but well Ubuntu 16.10 had some driver issues I didnt know, (before you mentioned it I didnt installed it) after that my system messed up. lol.
I downgraded to 12.4 and it works fine now. :) Thanks alot.
 
booman
Whoa, Ubuntu 12.04? You must have an older computer... That version is getting pretty old. I have it on my Chromebook because it supports my Intel HD 2000 video chip. But that is the only reason why I still use Ubuntu 12.04
 
N
Actually my pc is not that old. I havent tried 14.04 but Ill do it next weekend. But it works well like this actually. Again, thanks for that nice guide and the little help ;)
 
booman
Nice, for some reason I thought you downgraded to 12.04
I have a feeling Ubuntu 14.04 will work perfectly for you.

No problem. I should probably update this guide as well, but I don't really play League of Legends.
 
jburgessman
Wow, this is one of the coolest and most detailed guide that I saw on the Internet and it would be very useful to me a few years ago (at that moment I was just starting to play LOL). I remember that I spent more than 4 hours installing the game and faced a huge number of errors, but I was ready for this and the result fully met expectations. At that moment, I didn’t even think about the fact that it could bring me money in the near future. The funny thing is that now I don’t work and my only source of income is e-sports lol tournaments and I’m glad that I could go all this difficult way and that I even spent a lot of money on boosting my account using services like [URL removed by Moderator]. Now it paid off in double size :)

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