[CRASH] after champion select, loads slowly up to 93% with windows loading cursor icon, and crashes
**BACKGROUND INFO: **
I am on Windows 8, 64-bit. My computer normally loads everything very fast and I can normally stream league at 60 fps on all graphics settings maxed out. While experiencing the issue below, my internet works perfectly fine, my router indicates nothing out of the ordinary, I can load the league launcher normally, and can even log into my account normally. I have tried repairing the client, reinstalling league entirely, deleting logitech files from the RADS folder, restarting my computer, uninstalling lolreplay completey, and countless other fixes recommended by Riot and others.
ERROR BEING EXPERIENCED:
Everything was working fine after the 5.20 patch, but now suddenly every time I get to the load screen, my game loads very slowly (i.e. 1% every 4-5 seconds, and later 1% every 30-60 seconds) and the windows 8 loading cursor never is replaced by league's pointer icon. When i left the loading screen alone for a long period of time, it loaded up to 93% and the cursor icon went back to the windows 8 default white pointer cursor instead of league's pointer icon. (I would post a screenshot but it wouldn't be very helpful and apparently I can't screenshot during this loading error as well.) When i left click the loading screen at this point, I get an error that says I've been disconnected from the internet and to try connect again. Again, my internet is working 100% normally throughout all of this: before, during, and after!
Other characteristics that make this unique is that when I alt+tab out of the loading screen window (which takes longer to do as well), clicking the league window icon to re-maximize the load screen. If I try to right click the league window icon, and the left click league client, I get an error saying "you are trying to open the league of legends game client in an invalid way". I can't figure any way to re-maximize the loading screen once I alt+tab out.
Again, I have no idea why this started happening. Yesterday everything worked perfectly. Today I can't load a game with only myself in it.
Note: For the sake of organization, this issue seems to be fairly similar to TheHighKhan's post last month which was never resolved. I posted the link on this thread.