Latest patch has a bug so big it bricked my pc

Aristotally·2/20/2020, 4:27:48 PM·1 votes·2,024 views

Yes. My 2000 dollar gaming laptop needed to be restarted twice, and black screened because of the latest patch. It won't charge now. It's actually fried.

I downloaded the patch this morning and had a few games. They were a little visually laggy but ok.

At some point in the day, not logged into league, I changed my resolution to 4k, and then back down to a small resolution, but still bigger than it was this morning.

Then I reoppened the client, and played a game. The first game crashed saying something about an unknown error, and showed gltichy lines in the alt tab preview of the lobby client. The application could not be existed by any means, and I needed to restart. When I did, the white start up client had reset to NA, and updated really quickly or something. A big 'play' button that I've never seen before popped up, so I guess it completely reset. It loaded slowly and I was about a minute late to laning in ranked.

Stupidly I decided to play another one, not expecting a problem. Same issue, but the client didn't pop up before the 'unknown error' message came up. Reconnected and booted up, still late to lane phase. In lane, there was a big glitch, and then everything lost their shadows or 3D depth or something. Lighting engine issue. Finally after after a few minutes of trying to play like that. Straight to black. Fans off, completely dead. Took a little while for it to start again, and when it did, it no longer charged. It goes down really fast too, like 1 percentage tick every 8 seconds.

Nothing else was open, my graphics card shouldn't be having a problem. This was entirely a league bug.

Crossing my fingers and hoping that I'll fix itself over night. Might have to stop playing if I'm risking bricking my PC each time tho.

3 Comments

azzy butt2/20/2020, 5:03:47 PM2 votes

I don't think you should be blaming an application like league for a hardware issue. Yes, the client is very buggy and has some annoying issues, but I don't think any issues with the client come even close to being able to physically damage your computer. I think you're just trying to place blame wherever you can.

ChinaHour2/20/2020, 8:23:34 PM1 votes

Did u try downloading more RAM?

hardcode932/20/2020, 9:26:54 PM1 votes

This was entirely a league bug.

So interesting how people with zero computer knowledge blame a game like league for "frying" their computer. Your description is 100% related to a hardware issue, something league has no control over, dont turn your machine back on and let a professional take a look at it or you risk losing your "2000 dollar" gaming laptop.

fwiw I think its either the motherboard or battery that has broken down, but with this amount of information nobody can tell you for sure.