Game has issues on Windows 10 [CRASH]

SoulKnight·Oct 23, 2015·3 votes·2,061 views

This game has serious issues with Windows 10. It will run fine for a few minutes, then the screen will start flickering and/or the game client crashes. This problem started when I switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have tried every possible combination of drivers and even reinstalling Windows 10 but the problem persists. All other games I own are working flawlessly, League of Legends is the only game that is having these issues. I have closely been monitoring my computers temperatures and can say with certainty that overheating is not an issue.

Here is my hardware:

ASUS P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT Intel 3570K Processor Patriot 1867mhz DDR3 Memory (2x8GB Modules) SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7990 100350GAMESR 6GB 384-Bit Samsung UHD U28D590 4K Monitor (Interfaced with DisplayPort) CM 1000-Watt Power Supply

I have also simultaneously submitted a bug report to AMD on the issue.

10 Comments

ZielmannOct 23, 20152 votes

Do you actually play at the 4K resolution, or do you step it down to 1920x1080 for league? If not, have you tried that at all? Not sure why that should make a difference, but sometimes you have to just pick one variable and start there.

For the record, I've been running 10 for a month or so now, and haven't had any issues running league on it.

SoulKnightOct 23, 20151 votes

Yes, I have tried putting it back to 1920x1080 but the crashing persists. I have also tried disabling/enabling Anti Aliasing, VSync, changing texture resolutions, disabling DPI scaling, and running the program in compatibility mode but nothing seems to help.

DrCyanideOct 23, 20151 votes

I've got Windows 10 on several of my computers and know many others who play League also on Windows 10, I don't think the issue is League itself. Drivers are a pain sometimes...

Have you tried running League in administrator mode? It's a long shot, but that might help.

SoulKnightOct 23, 20151 votes

For security reasons, I have not (and will not) try running it in administrator mode

ZenGottoOct 23, 20151 votes

What version of drivers are you using? I am pretty sure that the 290x and the 7990 share the same drivers (Maybe I'm wrong)

SoulKnightOct 23, 20151 votes

I'm on 15.10 Beta now (LATEST) but I had this problem with the last beta and the stable branch as well. I am thinking it is a driver issue too, but it's hard to tell exactly who to blame because it's possible that Riot is doing something weird as well. Remember that patch a year or two ago where they broke the game for everyone with an nVidia Titan GPU? This kind of reminds me of that bug, because this card is ultra-high end for the AMD side as the titan is for nVidia. I've noticed a lot of these bugs end up appearing for the high end hardware with games, probably because the game makers aren't testing it with the expensive hardware as much as they are the cheap stuff.

You are correct, the driver used for the 7990 is the same as the 29XX line, I'm not sure if that says much though because I believe there are some minor differences between the R9 and 7990 series at the chip, so this "same driver" would require different branches of code internally to handle this -- It's possible that in one of these branches lies the bug. This is just speculation though!

fugatotabued91Oct 23, 20151 votes

Sounds like a driver issue

UtekaditsuOct 23, 20151 votes

Yea AMD, INTEL, and MACS are having issues with Windows 10 and league I have same issue they say drivers are the issue its LEAGUE they did not optimize there game for these drivers I'm assuming NVIDIA Punks are fine...so stop saying its your comp its your comp its not some ones comp if thousands are having the same Issue Please # Get Rekted

whitefang3Oct 24, 20151 votes

i have the same problem but its not my laptop or drivers. i have NVIDIA and my client still freezes i cant move, open shop or settings without it freezing.

SoulKnightOct 30, 20151 votes

UPDATE

I've uninstalled Windows 10, went back to Windows 7 and the problem is gone. I'm not sure if Microsoft, AMD, or Riot is to blame for these issues but I'm tired of it plaguing my life. It is worth noting that this is not the only issue I was having with Windows 10 -- I frequently use VMware, and on Windows 10 I occasionally get flickers and corruption on the display of my virtual machine. It was for these reasons that I decided to roll back to Windows 7. Maybe I will switch back to 10 after a few years have gone by and it is finally stable!