Does the current Sona Spectating bug affect ALL game modes? Can no longer play League.

Nova Skye·1/29/2016, 8:05:17 PM·8 votes·8,124 views

[MAC, El Capitan, Completely Updated]

I have a support ticket in, but I can't find much information on this Sona bug. Earlier today I was playing just fine. I then decided to spectate a friend who was playing Nami - and the loading screen turned my screen black. I lost my mouse, and well, my computer- had to force quit it by holding down the power button.

Found out on logging back in that my friend was against a Sona.

Now, I can get into any game's draft, but the loading screen completely locks down my computer and forces me to hold the power button down to kill it.

I was wondering if this is the current bug or if I have more problems?

40 Comments

AddeKing1/29/2016, 10:38:38 PM1 votes

Same problem, anyone have a fix yet?

DaddyRic1/29/2016, 11:00:20 PM1 votes

Same problem here. Couldn't be solved even after I reinstalled the game.

Riotmoonstones1/30/2016, 2:21:14 AM1 votes

Hey Nova Skye,

Thank you for the report!

The Spectator bug does affect all game modes when spectating a game with Sona in it. We're working to resolve this ASAP!

LoroTheExploro1/30/2016, 2:48:27 AM1 votes

when is a fix expected ?

leage31/30/2016, 5:41:23 PM1 votes

same here could i ask how much time it´s for you to fix this bug, and do i have to do something to fix that?

leafsie1/31/2016, 11:39:16 AM1 votes

Exact same thing here, except I'm running Yosemite! and I am based in OCE not NA. I can't play or spectate now after trying to watch a game with Sona in it. I tried to load a bot game and even that failed. I shall try the 'enter' key trick and see if it helps.. Please keep us posted Riot!

markposg1/31/2016, 2:24:45 PM1 votes

ANOTHER SOLUTION

Same thing with accidental Sona spectate on Mac Yosemite in NA and stuck on black screen. I tried hitting <enter> on blank screen no luck. Someone else posted about mashing keys for 20 seconds being sure to hit two at once... did not work for me either. Had to hard reboot.

So, I manually edited the game.cfg in /Applications/League of Legends.app/Contents/LoL/Config and changed WindowMode=0 to WindowMode=1 so that at least I could alt-tab out instead of hard reboot and that led to a fix!

When I ran a custom game, a window popped open saying there was a problem the last time, and did I want to reopen the window. I clicked on reopen and everything worked. Ran custom game reset video mode back to full screen. No more problems.

Stargazing2/1/2016, 7:11:33 AM1 votes

I am using Yosemite/Macbook, and I am having the same problem after spectating a game with a Sona in it. I reinstalled twice, and repaired twice. Nothing worked. I am currently waiting for a Riot member to reply to my troubleshooting ticket, and I was looking for a solution feverishly since the Sona-bug notification disappeared from the client (but I don't think the issue is resolved yet?). This might be a short-term problem (or maybe it's the solution since I haven't had to do it since I did it), but it worked after I did it once. I am copy-pasting someone else's comment because it wasn't my idea (and the thread it was posted in). Try this, it worked for me:

"YuGiHo (NA) - about 3 hours ago I got the same issue, it just started today for some reason. i was able to play fine on this patch before this but now i just get black screen when i try to play or spectate a game.

Im also on a macbook

Edit: I found a random fix for it. Idk why but if you spam your Enter key as the screen goes black everything starts to load as normal. Ive only tried it when spectating a game but so far i only had to to it 1 time and now it just works like normal. I hope this helps you or anyone with the same problem."

The thread it was on: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/HniF6XVr-black-screen-after-champion-select

RainbowBabeHuh2/2/2016, 2:45:31 AM1 votes

when can you fixed it, i wanna play games,plz Jhin

elummm2/4/2016, 4:30:24 AM1 votes

Has anyone found a solution yet? Pressing 'entre' or 'entre+space bar+delete' won't work for me at all!!! I got stuck with the black screen and I had to force quit it... after force quitting it it says I got DC from a game so I reconnect and see if it works, no, nothing... still on black screen.

RIOTS do something!!! I AM CRAVING LEAGUE!!!