Reconnect! Reconnect! Reconnect!
Game crashing right after champ select? Staring at the "reconnect" button feeling your blood pressure going up? No fear. I figured this out.
OK, so, I was able to get the game working normally by:
- In Bitdefender, adding exceptions for every league program (both the client .exe and the game .exe) to both the firewall and anti-spyware.
- Turning off "advanced threat detection" in bitdefender, completely. It is a total burr and will not allow the addition of exceptions to its brutal reign of terror, so it must be deactivated.
Everything now works fine. I can play the game again. Very happy.
MF Rax back on the rift!