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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:
Click Next
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
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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:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
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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:
Click Okay
- Resolution
- Windowed Mode
- Graphics Presets
- Character Quality
- Effects Quality
- Environment Quality
- Shadows
- Character Inking
- Frame Rate Cap
- Anti-Aliasing
- Wait for Vertical Sync
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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:
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