League of Legends Guide

Cabian · Jul 12, 2014

Idk if the computer is the problem, i had windows and used to play a lot before... the model is PCG-61A11U... Apreciate you answering me, thank you very much

plazma · Jul 14, 2014

Ubuntu 14.04
64-bit
Asus gtx 670 2gb
tried gpu drivers : x.org, 304.117, 331.38, 331.49, 331.67, 331.79, 331.89, and 340.24
PlayOnLinux Version 4.2.2
tried wine vers. : 1.2.3,1.3.20, 1.5.12 lol, 1.7-lol, 1.7.18, 1.7.19, 1.7.19-lol, 1.7.19-lol2, 1.7.20, 1.7.21

i installed with no error and applied mono patch but always getting @ the start black screen.

booman · Jul 15, 2014

Wow, I am stumped!
Nvidia drivers have always been great to me and GeForce cards work very nicely in Linux.
You have even tested different versions of Wine with no luck.
Did I already ask you if the 32-bit libraries are installed?

plazma · Jul 15, 2014

booman said:
Wow, I am stumped!
Nvidia drivers have always been great to me and GeForce cards work very nicely in Linux.
You have even tested different versions of Wine with no luck.
Did I already ask you if the 32-bit libraries are installed?

yes, step by step with your guide. Before ubuntu 14.04 64 bit tried ubuntu 12.04. 64bit same results

i can pass black screen problem.

booman · Jul 15, 2014

I mean the Linux 32-bit libraries.
use your Software manager and look for multi-arch or ia32-libs.
Those have to be installed for most games to work.

plazma · Jul 16, 2014

booman said:
I mean the Linux 32-bit libraries.
use your Software manager and look for multi-arch or ia32-libs.
Those have to be installed for most games to work.

Yes installed them.

booman · Jul 17, 2014

Still black screen?
The only thing I can think of is starting over one more time.
It LoL still stops at a black screen then I am at a loss.
How long did you wait at the black screen?
I remember loading a game could take a while, but can you even get to the hero select screen?

SimpleSign · Jul 17, 2014

Hello,
i followed your guide and i encountered a problem.

the launcher encounters a serious problem and i have to close it,
i mananged to figure it out that it is because i change the windows version from Windows XP to Windows 7,

any ideas on how i can fix this ?

Cheers

booman · Jul 17, 2014

You should be able to use Win7 from now on. Previously I recommended Win XP because Internet Explorer 8 was needed, but not anymore.
Was the game working before you set it to Win 7?

SimpleSign · Jul 17, 2014

Yes the game is working when i have it on Win XP, but whenever i change it to Win 7 the launcher encounters an error

booman · Jul 17, 2014

If it work on Win XP with the new patch, then just keep playing in Win XP.
Otherwise, please post your debug output and we'll see what is going on behind-the-scenes.

Valdiz777 · Jul 17, 2014

Yes with the new patch I can confirm xp works better. At least so far it got me to the launcher screen (which I wasn't able to do with win 7 mode)

booman · Jul 17, 2014

Ok, then keep using WinXP for now. If you want League of Legends to run in Win7 then you will probably have to start over and follow this guide.

Valdiz777 · Jul 18, 2014

Ok so I was finally able to get it to work. I can enter any game (rank, norms, aram etc) with really good fps even with graphics all the way. I followed the guide however I'm using league of legends2. I also installed the ati black screen fix (i'll get back to this in a minute). I went ahead and Installed ie8, winhttp,wintrust,gecko, d3d9, d3d10, d3d11, directx9---all are these are installed along with what was recommended in the guide. I also followed this guide. FURTHERMORE: I made my wine think that my gpu is nvidia and not ati (so u can ignore ati black screen fix but I still have it on).
How to make your wine think gpu is nvidia:
go to wine>configure>regis editor> current user>software>wine>direct3d
while here:
1. create a new DWORD value, name it VideoPCIDeviceID
a. after creating it, right click>modify> value =402
2. create a new DWORD value, name it VideoPCIVendorID
a. after creating it, right click>modify> value =10de
3. create a new String value, name it VideoDriver
a. after creating it, right click>modify> value =ati2dvag.dll
Other things:
direct drawrenderere=opengl
strictdraw=disabled
useglsl=enabled
memorysize=1024 (my real memory size is 256 but I set 1024 regardless, I recommend this--It is a bypass, I can go into further explanation if you need)

after doing all of this the only remaining bug:
out of game shop: still black screened, however it wont crash the game unless you are on debug mode.

I was very tired and sleepy whole writing this (because of the long day trying to get this to work haha) so if you have any questions please ask. I ran into all sorts of errors purposely just so I can fix them. So I can contribute a lot to any future questions especially with this new patch.

Hope this helps anyone, if not, I'll be here
Cheers

booman · Jul 18, 2014

Great information! Thanks for posting. I had no idea you can trick wine to think you have an Nvidia card!!!

It may be a good idea to post your solutions on the PlayOnLinux website because there are a LOT of posts there about League of Legends.

Strange that you had to install IE8 and Wininet. The last time I tried League of Legends, it worked fine with Win7 and a newer version of Wine. No IE necessary;

When you wrote "League of Legends2" what did you mean?

Valdiz777 · Jul 18, 2014

the wine virtual drive I used was titled 1.7.19-LeagueofLegends2. Yeah about the IE8, Im pretty sure I didn't need it, I just installed it as a fail-safe. Same thing with the wininet. Initially I thought haven't it uninstalled was a problem but it really wasnt. what helped improved my performance along with the videocard issues and something I totally forgot to include can be found here here: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-11344.html
mainly the libraries: dbghelp (diabled)
dnsapi (built-in, native) .

Valdiz777 · Jul 18, 2014

I'm going to work hard and see if I can figure out the out of game shop bug today

Valdiz777 · Jul 18, 2014

Sorry, not trying to spam, I am new here and I don't really know how to edit my posts. I ran a couple of tests with wininet and compatibility. So with the XP verison you do have to have wininet (builtin), else the game wouldn't launch. I also tested this with win 7 and 8 and got the same results..weird.

plazma · Jul 18, 2014

plazma said:
Yes installed them.

wait about 1-2 hours but nothing happens, can click links or buttons i cant see but click them

gonna try not ubuntu distrios, fedoara or opensuse

plazma · Jul 18, 2014

booman said:
Great information! Thanks for posting. I had no idea you can trick wine to think you have an Nvidia card!!!

It may be a good idea to post your solutions on the PlayOnLinux website because there are a LOT of posts there about League of Legends.

Strange that you had to install IE8 and Wininet. The last time I tried League of Legends, it worked fine with Win7 and a newer version of Wine. No IE necessary;

When you wrote "League of Legends2" what did you mean?

he has an ati gpu card and tricks wine to nvidia ?

"League of Legends2" wine version 1.7.19-LeagueofLegends2 etc.