League of Legends

League of Legends was released in October 2009 and developed by Riot Games. The game was in a closed beta from April 10, 2009, to October 22, 2009. It then transitioned to open beta until release. Generally speaking the game is largely bug-free and will run on a wide range of systems, however some glitches and bugs are still reported.

Software Requirements

- Microsoft .NET framework 3 or higher

- Adobe AIR

Bugs

If you are experiencing mouse problems, you can try reload League or tabbing back in and out.

There is currently a bug with the client launching after pressing play on the updater. The "League of Legends" emblem will flash a few times, which isn't unusual, but then the client itself will not open. A guide to fixing this bug can be found on the official forums, however the final step, completely clearing League of Legends and all programs associated with it from the computer and doing a re-install from scratch, is the only certain fix. There is some debate on the reason this bug exists.

There are currently a few bugs associated with disconnecting in-game, and then reconnecting without closing the game (reconnecting without exiting to the client). These include:

- "Phantom/Ghost minions", which appear to the player as normal but untargetable minions but do not actually exist on the server, causing vision and collision in that area to be bugged for the player (it appears as if the minions give vision and cause collision when they actually do not)

- Untargetable turrets/inhibitors, whereby if an enemy turret/inhibitor falls while you are disconnected your game doesn't allow you to target the turret/inhibitor behind that turret/inhibitor in that lane (Pressing A and left clicking the turret/inhibitor can fix this issue however).

- Untargetable/invisible champions, which is similar to the turret bug, if an enemy player dies and then re-spawns when you have reconnected, that player will be both untargetable and invisible for you.

Currently the only known fix to these bugs is to close the game and recconect using the client as opposed to the in-game reconnecter.

There is a bug wherein the space bar will randomly stop auto-centering back on the player's champion. Alt-Tabbing doesn't seem to immediately fix this problem, but it usually doesn't persist for long enough to become a major nuisance in-game.

There is a bug on Dominion which causes the mouse cursor to disappear or corrupt, and appear as a vertical line. This problem persists through the game client and into the OS, until a restart occurs. The problem fixes itself at random intervals whilst in-game. This problem is believed to be caused by the use of an ATI graphics card, and no reliable fix has been found. One common suggested fix is to turn off cursor trails, and uncheck the "Hide Cursor While Typing" option in Mouse Options, however this fix has been known to not fix the problem for everybody. Another fix is to put the computer into sleep mode; the sleep/wake cycle clears the problem.

LoL Replay

One of the most popular mods for League of Legends, LoL Replay (otherwise known as LoL Recorder), is a game recording and replaying mod/program. It has been given the Ok from Riot, and its openly used by most of their staff and pros. It adds very little load to the computer, and is completely automatic in recording and replaying. The only problem is that Health bars are only loaded when the player is looking at them ingame, this means that if during the replay you look somewhere different to where the player in the replay was looking, health bars become buggy and inaccurate. This is however the only downfall.

It can be downloaded via this link, and more information can be found here. Helpful information for new users can be found here.

LoL Replay Bugs

There is currently an issue with interaction between replays and the recording software Fraps. It is known to be something to do with the cooldown timers on skills, and how they are accelerated when the replay is fast forwarded. There is a fix to this issue in the program. In the settings there is a tick box for a "Fraps fix", and the program will also automatic detect if you are running fraps and ask you if you wish to apply the fix. The setting fixes the issue with Fraps, however it causes the cooldown timers to become un-synced when fast forwarding the replay.

Since the Ziggs patch (01-31-2012), older versions of LoL Recorder will cause the game to bug splat. If you have been experiencing this issue, update LoL Recorder, or turn it off.

When a replay is started, sometimes the viewer will be unable to view the replay controls (Pause, fast forward etc). This is caused by not having the latest DirectX Runtime install on the machine. This issue is easily fixable by downloading and installing the program via this link.

iLoL

While League of Legends is not available on mac computers, there is a third part program that has also been OKed by riot under the name of iLoL. It sometimes suffers from bugs when patches come out, and it is recommended you play a custom game whenever a new patch come out to make sure it works with the current patch. However it is connected to the League of Legend's update server and will update itself, and is usually updated to work pretty quickly.

To get iLoL go to this link,.

Other Stuff

The game installer by default uses the BitTorrent protocol to download patches and other content. To disable this and download only from the Riot servers, uninstall Pando Media Booster. Uninstalling LoL will actually leave Pando installed on your hard drive and running in the background. You should uninstall it, if you're uninstalling the game.

Links

League of Legends main site
League of Legends wiki
League of Legends on Wikipedia

See Also

• DotA 2