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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It may happen some day. I know there are thousands of Linux players online. If the game actually cost money, it would be more incentive, but then there wouldn't be so many players
 
Hey guys I don't know if you know yet but out of game shop (runes etc) now works. you can also chat will people etc. So I can pretty much say league of legends on linux is now fully functional :D
 
When I open LoL from PlayonLinux It opens a blue window, I open launcher and wine find an error that I can't see because I press details and wine crashes
 
Did you follow the guide above?
What are your computer specs:
  • Distro
  • 64-bit or 32-bit
  • video card/chip
  • video drivers?
 
Not sure, in my last test of League Of Legends, I didn't need IE8 any more to run it.
So not sure how to restart?
 
I am running arch linux 64bit, awesomeWM. if you take a look at this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190768 you can fix the "attempting to reconnect problem". When i was running openbox and installed league of legends everything was fine. Now I am running awesomeWM and when I have "Allow window manager to control" the main league of legends slides off screen slowly when I hover over the play button, store button, summoner button, and league of legends logo. When i unclick this option, of course the prbloem is fixed but so is the window and I can't use any other application until the game is closed. All this only happens when I am in the main screen such as the league store and searching for games. My question is is there a fix or is this because of awesomeWM?
 
Hey,

When I try to log in it doesn't seem to be able to get to the net. I checked and the servers are not down and last night I downloaded the game fine.

I'm back on arch because ubuntu was giving me issues. I have the WPA stuff installed and I have no trouble going anywhere on the net.

I checked wine and I found that it was running in windows xp and not 7, or 8. When I tried higher windows prefixes all the game did was crash. I think it's that wine is at windows xp. Not sure what to do from here.
 
Also:

Arch 64 bit
video card: ati radeon HD 6320
drivers: base arch ati drivers (xf86-video-ati)

As reference, not a lot of people use this card and it wasn't put in a lot of laptops. Looking up specs for it can be decieving. If you look up the specs and say "The game isn't playable anyways" I get 50 or 60 frames max in windows. If I can't get this to work it isn't really a big deal, but it would be really cool and it would add to thew list of reasons to compltely migrate.
 
I don't have a lot of experience with AMD video card or video chips. Specially in Laptops.
If its a driver issue then I've got nothing...
I would still like to see the debug output and see if anything raises-a-flag at me.
Have you ever been able to play League Of Legends on this laptop before?
 
Has anyone found a way to increase fps in league of legends? I have been getting around 150-180 frames in windows but when running in Linux I am only able to get 40-60fps. I use bumblebee to alternate between the Intel and Nvidia graphics card but this does not help in anyway. Has anyone been able to get a high and/or consistent frame rate in Linux?

System: AwesomeWM 64bit
Video card: geforce 710m.
 
I have not seen any trends for improving frame rates with Wine.
40-60 fps should be fine for gameplay in any game anyways.
I'm happy to get 30 fps in most game.
 
I've also problems with the shop since the last patch. Every time I enter it a new window asks for Username and Password to access the connection.
I tried installing IE8 but this didn't work. so I switched to a newer wine (1.9.2staging - LOL3) and now I can switch through the shop but the problem appears when I want to purchase anything. So mayby just wait for a fix?
 
I didn't mess with the shop when I tested League of Legends last. You might want to try an older version of Wine as well. Normally what happens is... someone will patch Wine to fix the shop and then LoL developers will upate the game and break Wine again.
 
Make sure to test with patched versions Like:
  • 1.9.2-LeagueofLegends5
  • 1.7.52-staging-LOL3
  • 1.7.52-staging-LOL2
  • 1.7.52-LeagueofLegends5
  • 1.7.52-LeagueofLegends4
and any others you can find.
 
Hi,
I dunno whats wrong, I did exactly everything (except the Version of Wine I used the latest), but before the game starts to open the launcher I got a Bugsplat Icon wich repeated all the time.

My Distr. is Ubuntu.
 
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