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Low FPS & Lag Spikes after preseason update?

TimTheEnchanter·11/8/2017, 2:13:18 PM·169 votes·53,357 views

Okay, so I got into League this morning all excited about the new runes and the preaseason itself and I encountered a huge problem that effects the gameplay in a huge way - FPS drop.

Long story short, I got into the game and from the usual 60 FPS, now I have around 30, if I'm lucky, on lane, bellow 30 if I'm in team fights.

Now, I asked others and apparently they have more or less the same problem (besides the client being really laggy for some), so maybe I'm not the only one? One guy told me that from the usual 150 FPS in team fights he now has 80 FPS in jungle, without doing anything.

Maybe it's worth mentioning that yesterday I played a few games and everything was great.

I asked myself "Maybe the new Runes effects added make everything run slower because I have an old computer", but then I just stopped in the middle of an empty lane doing nothing. No effects, no movement, no spell. Still around 30 - 37 FPS.

Either the game got some decently big visual updates and I'm gonna need a new computer or there's something wrong with then new preseason patch that affects FPS.

Anybody having the same problem, or it's just me?

195 Comments

TimTheEnchanter11/8/2017, 6:52:12 PM45 votes

Okay, small "update", i guess. In case someone at Riot sees this, here's a better description of the problem:

  • You start the game and your FPS is normal, like it used to be. In my case it's around 60 FPS (because I set the limit to 60 FPS)

  • You spend a few minutes playing, farming, and everything seems to be okay. You get a kill, you die, you get ganked, everything's good

  • You get past 10-15 minutes and you get a 5-10 FPS drop. It's okay, everything is playable and it's a normal thing, especially if your computer is not really good

  • You get past 25 minutes and your FPS starts getting lower and lower. In my case, from 60 FPS it goes to 35-37, and that on lane with absolutely no one around, not even minions. Game struggles to keep the FPS up with nothing around me.

  • You get to 33-35 minutes - you're lucky if you can see anything in team fights, if you don't have a good pc. Even if you do, everything works slow, the game drops from 35 to 25 FPS for no reason especially in team fights and you just pray your team can carry

  • You get to 40 minutes - once everyone gathers and the team fight starts, your FPS is underage. Really. I had 16 FPS in my last team fight. I wanted to hit Quinn with my Q. I was Teemo. I missed her until she killed me.

The FPS generally starts being great at the beginning of the game but the more minutes pass, the less FPS you get. I personally had the same problem in the past, especially after getting Elder Dragon/Baron buff (or both).

However, now it's not even because of the buffs. Once the games goes on for too long, it becomes hard to play. If you don't have a good PC, your 60 FPS goes down to 18-25 after 30-35 minutes. And I mean 25 if you don't do anything. 18 FPS if a wild minion appears.

I played a game right before writing this and I asked in the "all" chat if someone else was having this problem:

  • Enemy Quinn said yes

  • Enemy Lucian say yes

  • Enemy Vi said "I play with 60 FPS on gt 8400 then fuck you" - not sure what that is supposed to mean.

I tried to change the settings from Very Low to Very High then to Very Low again, and it didn't work. There's nothing on my computer to slow down the game, my graphics card driver is updated and there's nothing changed on my computer that could affect my FPS.

Something's wrong with the patch that causes some players to get a lot of FPS drops for no reason. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

CodeDeath11/8/2017, 9:32:44 PM10 votes

My GPU is almost 3 years old and started out with solid 144 FPS for League. Recently it has dipped into 130-ish territory during combat. With the latest patch it now ranges between 130 and 100, and mostly sits on 100. Sure, it's far more than most players have BUT I WANT MY FRAMES BACK. ALL 44 OF THEM.

Sgnafgna11/8/2017, 6:23:04 PM8 votes

I've got the same problem. FPS dropped from 180-200 to 80-120. In the training mode i don't have this problem, instead, during a normal game, i start with normal FPS, and after some minutes they drops asf. But i got this problem since patch 7.21, it's already one-two weeks i experience this problem.. how they'll fix it soon :)

Pretty Funny11/8/2017, 2:30:19 PM6 votes

Yea i have the same problem before i was playing with around 60fps but now im lucky if i have more than 30 even i make the graphics from medium to very low and nothing changed and im pretty confused because even when i played in the pbe i had like 60 fps and now with that preseason update i started lagging too much

Just a weeb xoxo11/8/2017, 4:34:47 PM6 votes

I have the same problem, that sucks actually. Since this patch came out i lost 30 fps. [sg-janna]

ADCurrychicken11/17/2017, 5:19:33 PM4 votes

GTX 1060 i7-6700 16GB DDR3 And yet, fps drops below my screen refresh rate.

Used to have stable 144 fps throughout the whole game. Now, even on VERY LOW, fps drops to 30-40. Fix ur damn loops rito.

LP Over Girls11/8/2017, 2:32:36 PM4 votes

yup i'm having the exact same problem and I have sent a ticket to riot .. I was having the same problem in PBE when they had these new hp bars .. when they removed them for a couple of days the FPS increased and so did the gameplay .. so im guessing this new preseason update is the cause

Sokrey11/8/2017, 9:55:37 PM3 votes

Hello. Today I noticed that my fps dropped as well. Alot!!! At first average fps was 190-120 mid game , late game it was 130-70 after todays pre-season patch my fps is avg. mid game 120-70 , late game barely 60 fps it even drops in the 40's! Riot please fix this. Before some rioter replies with their LOW FPS TROUBLESHOOTING THREAD. Im going to tell you. Its not our computers , now its your game and please fix it! I love the new season but I cant play in these conditions. Love ya

Kürama11/8/2017, 5:04:49 PM3 votes

👋🏽Heya!

A few players are reportedly experiencing FPS issues in-game but this isn't a server-wide issue.

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Paın hate sad11/9/2017, 1:20:23 AM3 votes

I have the same problem. [sg-janna]

RagingGamers11/9/2017, 3:01:16 AM3 votes

Same problem here. late game will drop to 70-80fps. Here's what I tired.

  1. The repair in client
  2. restarted my router
  3. checked my nvidia driver
  4. I even uninstalled yesterday and reinstalled League of Legend in another faster ssd drive. none of these worked. The only way to push your fps back to normal for another 5 - 10 mins is dc and reconnect to the game. rig using samsung ssd, 7gen i7 and gtx 1070 I hope riot stop using the FPS issues guide to reply this post. It is clearly something wrong with this preseason patch.
DiddleMeKindly11/25/2017, 4:50:30 AM3 votes

You aren't the only one. This is happening to me every game and is making this season miserable already.

Retrauk11/8/2017, 9:00:31 PM2 votes

Yeah, I was getting a consistent 60, and it's dipping to 20-30 during normal play, and as low as 7-8 fps during teamfights. I've lowered my graphics settings and it only barely helped.

LP Over Girls11/8/2017, 4:52:08 PM2 votes

I think I found a fix to this problem .. I was just in a practice tool testing my settings .. I was having the usual 30 FPS on lowest settings .. after messing up with some settings I regained my 60 FPS on normal games and everything was back on track.

So what I did was I first increased the settings or whatever from lowest to highest .. and then set it from highest to medium and played with that for 5 minutes .. I also unchecked 'wait for vertical sync', 'Anti-Aliasing','Enable HUD animations','Show Target Frame on attack','Enable line missile display' and then returned the settings from medium to lowest again .. and when I played a normal game everything was back to normal

This honestly somehow worked for me .. I hope it does for you too until Riot releases a new fix for this problem.[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

YambrinZ11/8/2017, 9:48:42 PM2 votes

Yes, and baron and inhib minions amplify this.

The Messenger RG11/8/2017, 3:15:50 PM2 votes

Hey guys,

Would you mind sharing some system specs that you are using? OS, graphic card, Processor, RAM..

Also it'll be good to make sure that you have the option "Close client during game" enabled so the client is not running while you are in game. This why we can see if it's something that we deployed on the client that is taking more resources than it should.

KARASUN011/8/2017, 10:05:24 PM2 votes

i have same issue my fps drops 30 40 in team figths and during the game like around 60 fps. its so annoying i hope it will be fix soon. This game is not playable right now atleast for me.

Big Smoke Only11/8/2017, 10:51:10 PM2 votes

Yeah the game is barely playable after 10 mins or so. Played 2 games after the update and both were very laggy. I have an old pc but the game played decent until now. I mean i have the low spec mode enabled and client closing option enabled too as i had before too. The fps drops to around 20 or lower and it is so hard on the eyes to even watch the screen. Until today my fps was around 45 and that is fine for me cuz i can play the game without much issues but 20 fps is waaaay to low to play the game normally.

serca11/26/2017, 1:26:59 AM2 votes

Very surprising to see Riot delete their posts in this thread and just leaving everyone in the dark.

Scrampsman2/1/2018, 1:03:05 PM2 votes

**Do you guys still experience the same problem like i do? **item 3070

AndyCeasul11/8/2017, 6:41:17 PM2 votes

Same with me used to have just about 60 fps in teamfight and 150 in jungle, and now about 90 fps in jungle and 40 fps in teamfight item 3070

Waffe11/8/2017, 6:28:46 PM2 votes

My rig is pretty solid and I am having the same issues.

blackeyes199511/8/2017, 9:26:20 PM2 votes

Well this isnt anything uncommon about fps drops , shit has been going on for ages. At least for me. Like you i have a pretty old computer that i paid alot , but is now fairly outdated and i cant afford a better one right now. Despite so in 2014 i could run the game all on medium settings and it would average 80 fps or so . Slight drops here and there as the patches went through and i decided to play on lowest settings so i could drag out 200 fps early game and it drops down to 60-100 in teamfights which i found pretty good since i didnt care too much about the graphics. Nowdays (3 years after that) i've had a huge fps issues for ages , more specifically when they introduced the new client, for a while i could get away with using " legacy client" until riot removed that option and made us all a prisoner of this new , buggy , unfinished , piece of ugly garbage client that made me lose so much lp and time spending in low priority because i cant lock in my champion or the my profile page wont close once i enter champ select (but all of that is for another post) , the thing that actually mattered to me (FPS in game) was the biggest problem. And i've went through all of those "how to fix your fps" guides by riot support , and everyone else , i've had all the settings turned off and on lowest , the "turn off client while in game , low specs , etc etc) but i would still drop frames massively in lategame and god knows how many games ive lost cause i cant play as well as i did in the early / mid game because im forced to sit on 30 fps. AND I FOUND A WAY TO FIX IT , i turn off every possible thing thats running in the background , free up my pc from all the garbage , turn out every sound in game except pings and SFX , and it would be a little better and somewhat bearable. BUT another season , another "fuck you" to my fps and enjoyment of the game. Now at 20 minutes i cant get over 45 or so and its frustrating cause i really love this game and i've put so many hours into it , making accounts , climbing to challenger , getting perma banns , meeting friends and other people that mean alot to me in life , and it pains me that i can not enjoy this game ever since the stupid client was forced into my pc. i SERIOUSLY doubt Riot is gonna do anything about it , and i don't think they can even if they wanted to. I have seriously no motivation to play this game nowdays and i would rather sit and watch a long youtube video about league or a stream , just so i dont lose my nerves dropping frames in important situations. I feel like they should focus on what league has been all about these past years , home to people with shitty computers. That was ONE of two things that could separate this game from any game out there. Anyone could download it no matter how bad their pc was , and it was FREE. Now its all about those shiny skins and new stuff when the essentials of the game arent there anymore. item 3070

Opdà11/9/2017, 11:32:13 AM2 votes

yes man when game starting its okey but after some minutes its going to hell wth

saibeo peongkeu11/11/2017, 6:55:47 PM2 votes

{quoted}

Okay, so I got into League this morning all excited about the new runes and the preaseason itself and I encountered a huge problem that effects the gameplay in a huge way - FPS drop.

Long story short, I got into the game and from the usual 60 FPS, now I have around 30, if I'm lucky, on lane, bellow 30 if I'm in team fights.

Now, I asked others and apparently they have more or less the same problem (besides the client being really laggy for some), so maybe I'm not the only one? One guy told me that from the usual 150 FPS in team fights he now has 80 FPS in jungle, without doing anything.

Maybe it's worth mentioning that yesterday I played a few games and everything was great.

I asked myself "Maybe the new Runes effects added make everything run slower because I have an old computer", but then I just stopped in the middle of an empty lane doing nothing. No effects, no movement, no spell. Still around 30 - 37 FPS.

Either the game got some decently big visual updates and I'm gonna need a new computer or there's something wrong with then new preseason patch that affects FPS.

Anybody having the same problem, or it's just me?

I don't know about you i haven't checked my fps ingame, but i'm lagging so much this preseason. It's like i'm clicking on the map, my hero doesn't move and after like 5 seconds it teleports 10m further. Or sometimes i just can't see anything but the heroes attacking me and i can't move, can't do anything, then it goes back to normal and i end up dead. It's just unplayable.

Hoden Johann11/8/2017, 3:04:57 PM2 votes

SAme Problem. I send a Report Ticket as well. Btw all people i talked to have same issues.

Edit: The Problem disappeared somehow, after i restarted the client :)

CommanderHoes3/5/2018, 3:50:49 AM1 votes

Same here. I haven't really noticed it until around early Febuary but I've had terrible FPS problems as of late. I usually run at 144 fps smoothly but I'm averaging 40-50 fps, maxing around 80 and spiking from around 40 down to 15 pretty often.

I have no idea why this is all the sudden such a common problem but considering that this is the only discussion I've seen about this problem and it already has 186+ people all talking about the same thing, I can only imagine how many people have it that haven't said anything about it.

Liupy4/7/2018, 4:24:06 PM1 votes

I am still getting issues with fps, chaning the quality from medium down to very low does not increase my fps in anyway shape or form, however lowering resolution has helped slightly. I am experiencing my game freezing every time to use my ulti, and in the late game this causes massive issues, as it is make or break in this situation. This all started at preseason, my laptop has never struggled with league before, its a AMD A-10 with r5 graphics, that uses a r8 mx445 gpu 8gm of ram. the r5 and the r8 are linked through cross fire so surely i should not be suffereing with fps drops or anything of the like in very low mode.[sg-soraka]

Down Smash11/9/2017, 3:39:11 AM1 votes

Yo, Just wanted to add that I am also seeing these FPS drops, I usually have around 150-200FPS, and now that I updated to pre-season I have from 50-60 when I am doing nothing, drops to 30 during big teamfights. I am not lagging though. its just so awkward to try and play because my cursor looks fucking spotty as hell and I end up misclicking a lot because of it. rito pls fix, all I can play like this is master yi and veiger since they require no mechanical skills lol

joaoventura15k1/27/2018, 11:13:35 AM1 votes

I can't play more league it is in every game... First when pre season started i noticed that some players when they were around my pc screen breaks, like i had low fps.. and then when that player was not around me my lol got to normal. Then i noticed that it was the players that had the run predator that lagged me... every time they used predator around me and had low fps... lost a lot of games cause of that... Man, it was on predator, so i let it go... predator is not a common rune so it is not in a lot of games... But then, it started season 8... and now runes "resolve" do that to me... what i mean?? Runes like grasp of the undying, aftershock, and guardian, when people use that vs me or on my team i get low fps when they around me... How the fuck i am supose to fucking win a game when their support has guardian, they're top had gasp of the undying, and they're jungle has predator??? tell me... My pc is new, not the best pc in the world but it was what i could afford... It is a acer Aspire E 15... someone help me i am trying to unnistall lol..

JetNeo11/23/2018, 12:12:08 AM1 votes

Mine is just constantly stuck at 20 or lower, i tried changing it to the lowest resolution, the smallest screen size and everything and it didn't change a thing, i used to play with 60 locked fps before this patch... that worst part is that i have a CSTAR match this Monday and i won't be able to play like this.