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Repetitive game crashes, and ping spikes ingame

zetSUN·10/15/2014, 12:03:38 AM·53 votes·6,533 views

I'm positive that other players are experiencing this issue, but the season is coming to an end, and I can't seem to play properly and efficiently while me, and other players are lagging out due to ping spikes. If possible, extend the time for players to rank up until Riot fixes this situation, and before the season turns. I'd hate to disconnect almost every ranked game, and not be given a Loss Forgiven.

My ping rises from 70-2000, initially waiting to reconnect, it then goes to 500 afterwards, and doesn't change until I quit from the game, and attempt to reconnect without the client crashing. I'm not good with technical issues, but does this concern the DDoS attacks that make the servers unstable?

Note that during this significance, nobody in my household is using the internet.

Edit: A classification of my prospect:

  • I've noticed this strange server behavior started to appear right after Patch 4.17. (September 30th)

  • LogInScreen sometimes places me in a 10-20 second queue.

  • My ping temporarily interchanges from 70-80, to now 110-150.

  • From what I'M experiencing, ping spikes and crashes seem to be most present around 7-15 minutes in game. Afterwards, my ping returns back to 110-150.

  • My champion is unable to respond to any movements, and pings. Although in some cases, nearby minions, and champions (excluding mine) are able to move freely, and smoothly.

  • The highest ping spikes I am experiencing are up to 2000-13000.

  • Regular spikes vary from 300-1100.

Under these circumstances, League seems to be unsafe to play.

39 Comments

Agent Koh10/15/2014, 2:17:31 AM9 votes

yes i cant even play a game anymore. i disconnect 3-5 times a game. its unplayable right now. i just want to come home from school and play league!!!!!!

LOHTIZ10/15/2014, 2:13:23 AM7 votes

I can't even log in... It says error from servers when I'm trying to log in... but I can log into my other online games such as WoW... GW2 ... Steam... and Diablo...Rengar

xLUSOx10/15/2014, 4:16:07 AM6 votes

Yeah, I've been having this same problem. Lag spikes brings the ping up to over 9,000! (In Vegeta's voice), not really but it spikes real bad like over 1,000. Then drops backs down to 500 ping and stays there while trying to reconnect. I HAVE TO LEAVE THE GAME MANUALLY AND RECONNECT MANUALLY. Occurs about every 30 seconds after the first time it has happened for me.

Kaizoku10/15/2014, 2:15:56 AM6 votes

Yeha me too can't even log in!!!

apunasatapulobin10/15/2014, 8:52:12 PM5 votes

Yea, just had a game where my ENTIRE TEAM disconnected from the game at the very beginning (took about 7-8 minutes to get past the loading screen). After everyone reconnects and the game starts, my ping shoots to about 350 (I live on the East Coast so I never have less than 100 ping) and my character icon is solid blue. So I log out and try to rejoin and it takes me 2-3 tries to log in.

My ping settles at about 110 for 5-10 minutes and then shoots back up to 400. At that point the enemy ADC was 8-0 and their jungler was like 5-0 so I just AFK'd.

This game has the absolute worst stability of any game I have played EVER. Period. Ever.

Oh, funny side note: I tried to go to the forums to complain about it but they were down as well. LMAO. (Not surprising honestly, the website is down at least 50% of the time I try to visit it).

Edit: People who are saying just get a better computer or internet are stupid. I have a 1000 dollar gaming computer and I never have connection problems in any game except for League.

G0oD DanK10/15/2014, 10:56:31 PM4 votes

I wish I could upvote a million times. Nearly impossible to play efficiently. I am at a constant disadvantage to others who don't experience this. Constant ping spikes from 20 to upwards of 900 through out the game, nothing seems to help.

h0rsep0wer10/15/2014, 5:25:33 AM4 votes

I can't even get the log in server to respond no matter how many different ways I try to fix it... Just started happening today. I know its been happening to other people today also but RIOT hasn't even addressed that there is a problem!!

very aggravating

Altoniel10/15/2014, 4:32:13 AM4 votes

Yeah, this started happening to me a few weeks ago, but is now getting to the point of making the game unplayable (3 DCs in the first 10 min of a game) Reinstalling the client didn't help at all and the internet is perfectly fine. The worst part is that is players are getting banned for leaving and reconnecting by the leave buster system and are losing ranked games without loss forgiveness.

Bloodest Avenger10/15/2014, 10:06:07 PM3 votes

Me too. I read 24892384932 Threads saying same thing, i cannot get into a game cuz the "Unable to connect to the server" bug. And while in-game, sometimes i get the error "Attempting to reconnect" but i can see what my allies and enemies are doing. Banned for 3 days for this. Amazing. I disabled my firewall, restarted my router 284923984239 times, restarted my PC, i tried the command Ipconfig/flushdns , no one is taking Wi-Fi or connected by wired. This is happenning to me in Eu West too. I tried everything. I see how my teammates and enemies disconnect from the game 8 of each 10 matches. Read this Riot, and read the other 28349238942839 threads reporting this bug too.

Texicant10/15/2014, 2:53:11 AM3 votes

yep tryed to play a bit and then spent the next 15 minutes. attempting to reconnect. not my internet or comp since i can play tf2 with 20 some people and have none of these issues

Jesus is Savior10/15/2014, 10:56:51 PM3 votes

Do NOT extend the length of the season.

Some people have already played their final ranked match, and will decay out of plat or diamond if you extend the season.

Fix the bug though.

missinggrave10/16/2014, 2:00:36 AM3 votes

I've had the same problem in my last ranked game. What sucks is that we were winning up until I went AFK due to crashing issues. I was worried it was my own internet at the start, but after seeing this it confirms that it was the client and not me. Hope that this issue is fixed soon based off the multiple reports I'm seeing with the same issue.

Joppalo10/16/2014, 5:50:19 PM3 votes

It's almost a waste of time to play League right now due to all the disconnects. It will almost undoubtedly happen, and has been consistent since 4.17. It's becoming a really unenjoyable experience to play.

Aeriza10/16/2014, 8:02:43 PM3 votes

I tried doing a little ARAM after work, and my game continually crashes. I can't do anything. :C

Decking around10/15/2014, 6:04:05 PM2 votes

same here

Decking around10/15/2014, 6:57:24 PM2 votes

some times get dc'ed 3-4 times a game

Poldy Scarecrow10/15/2014, 6:52:18 AM2 votes

I had a similar problem a few months back. Every game would suddenly have ping spikes followed by the attempting to reconnect.

Would not stop unless i quit the game and reconnected. It was happening so frequently i mad a lan (Latin America North) account.

Recently the problem has started occurring on the lan server as well except after 30 secs or so it would reconnect. The ping spikes/attempting to reconnect would occur almost every game sometimes twice per game.

I tried NA a while back but the problem was still there. I miss NA and english lol. I had all my heroes and skins there as well.

I was thinking by the time the new rift is out it would be fixed but idk

SHADOWFISH110/16/2014, 9:22:34 PM2 votes

all my expectations fall under your prospect

yes, i am lagging as well riot, please fix these servers, please!! we have nearly half a month for us to rank up, but we are unable to play because your servers are extremely unstable, give us a heads up, because we don't exactly know whats going on

zetSUN10/16/2014, 9:30:27 PM2 votes

I've just received a LeaverBuster warning. If I continue to play and disconnect, my account will be temporarily suspended.

Crique10/15/2014, 12:18:22 PM2 votes

does this only seem to happen to everyone in ranked? I tried playing a couple ARAM games and had no issues so i figured it might be safe to try ranked but i dc'd 3 times in the first 10 minutes and 2 more times before one person raged and we just surrendered

Rozencrantze10/15/2014, 12:21:02 PM2 votes

Same here. I DC'd 8 times one bot game.. I'll only play bot games cuz they don't effect anything really. Its bots so the team will win without me anyways.

Feathers or Lead10/15/2014, 5:04:18 PM2 votes

Very similar problem. During the game, my champ becomes unresponsive, stops or follows the enemy to a tower. Then the display of : Attempting to Reconnect And it will just sit there for hours if I let it. I never had a single disconnect until patch 4.17.

While all this is going on, I can run Speedtest, and I have a super stable connection: Windows 7 wired between 10 and 12 ms ping 106 MB/s download 5.6 MB/s upload 0 packets dropped

Geisterwand10/15/2014, 5:57:37 PM2 votes

Happens to me as well. The game refuses to reconnect on its own, so I have to close the game and reopen it. Happens several times per game. Wasn't a problem until patch 4.18.

Die Mainacht10/15/2014, 3:53:49 AM2 votes

Sweet lord I'm relieved it's not just me. It's been ridiculous. It started earlier this week. I DC at least twice every game and crash constantly. My internet is stable, so I assume it's on Riot's side. It's been happening to a friend of mine, too. Poor guy just wants to enjoy the new Darius skin and he couldn't even play more than five minutes in his first game. I've probably been getting reported for AFKing all week. This is a serious problem.

tenshal10/16/2014, 12:23:37 AM2 votes

Its not just me, I posted the same thing (I blamed my mac client). RIOT PLEASE ATTEND TO THIS!

Risotadazo10/16/2014, 7:35:14 AM2 votes

Earlier today I had a game with a couple disconnects. When the last one happened we were sieging the nexus turrets. I know I could have played a lot better for the portions of the game I was connected, but that's gotta be one of the most heartbreaking ways to lose :(

Emperor Time10/16/2014, 4:59:41 PM2 votes

This bug happens all the time to me as well. The game will stay at a constant 80~ ping and then will spike to 2k+ and then disconnect me from the game and the only way to reconnect is to close the game and then reconnect. It would be much appreciated if riot could give us a heads up into looking into this.

ShinerEffect10/16/2014, 7:14:17 PM2 votes

I may have found the solution. I play on a laptop and i did everything i could to try to fix the problem. i learned that when i played with my touch pad it worked fine, but when i used my razer naga, it disconnected me. so what i did was i uninstalled everything that has to do with razer from my laptop. LoL now works fine. im not sure if this is the issue with everyone, but it fixed the issue for me.

Grey Wolf Cpt10/15/2014, 5:16:52 AM1 votes

I would say it is time to upgrade your net work. I use to have dsl and mine did that crap all the time then I switched to Xfinity 50mps and I have a ping of 3-10 where I use to ping over 150 with huge spikes.

ThePunNinja3/20/2015, 12:46:07 AM1 votes

Interesting.... So it isn't just me! I thought it was my internet connection, until I switched screens when I lost connection in league and found out I could still surf the web! So I don't know what it is, packet loss? The servers? Or might it have something to do with dynamic IP adresses? I'm not completely familiar with dynamic IP's but I know that they change at a set time periode. Is this the thing that's messing it all up?

Tyrant Of NI10/17/2014, 5:43:16 AM1 votes

I have noticed this after i saw that they disabled Kass and Nid. Not sure if there is a connection, but before that I was doing fine.

InfamousZen10/27/2014, 7:58:58 PM1 votes

This is beyond annoying now, how many times we have to get d/c and wait to be reconnected or have to close and open again just to be able to get back into the game. It's getting annoying losing a game because of myself or my team keeps getting ping spikes, lag, d/c and so on. I been having this problem since 4.8 and it just progressively got worse over time to now this, where clearly its affecting a good amount of your customers. It's annoying loading onto the game with normal ping of 100 and then game starts already jumped over 300 and then hit over 12000 ping in the first two minutes, stop ignoring the problem like you've been doing for who knows how long now.

Gom Jabbar10/27/2014, 4:56:48 PM1 votes

Reporting in, this has been happening to me since patch 4.17 as well.

Forehoof10/17/2014, 3:56:15 AM1 votes

I cant even play this game anymore either because it literally wont let me since I will dc during the match. The only league of legends fixing I have been able to get lately are replays of Worlds matches. This has started happening just within a couple weeks ago or so, but it seems like it has been forever.

Another thing is that I have yet to see a post or statement where Riot acknowledges that there is a problem and they are fixing it. Are they all busy at Worlds right now and dont have time for us?