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League Client won't open 2019.

khalasarjones97··49 votes·105,031 views

So I've been having this problem ever since the Lunar even started. I click to open League and I get the mini "League of Legends" icon but nothing happens. The client never opens and the icon sits there loading until I close the program in task manager. I've done pretty much everything I can think of to try to fix this. I ran league as administrator, configured my DNS, made sure I had the latest windows 10 update, and ran the windows compatibility troubleshooter. It told me that League is an "incompatible program".

I'm not sure what to do at this point. The only way that I have successfully opened the client is to uninstall and reinstall the game. After I reinstall the game, the first time I close out of the client I can't get back in which forces me to uninstall and reinstall again. I even took my computer to a repair place because I thought that it was a computer specific related issue but it kept occurring even after I took my computer to get repaired. I've ran the hextech repair tool as well which didn't help much at all. I've done the "clean uninstall" which it doesn't recommend but that's the only way that I've been able to get the client open. I'm legitimately baffled by this because this is the first time I've ever had problems with the client and I have been playing since October of 2017 on this computer. So if anyone has any solutions that I haven't tried it would be greatly appreciated.

106 Comments

AkaliMainBanned87 votes

So, I had the same problem for about a day. But i found a solution easier than everything that all the people here said. I clicked ctrl + alt + delete and opened task manager. Then in the left down corner there is a button that says more information (or something familiar, i don't know, mine was in Greek so...). Click that and go down and down till you find some League of Legends files. click on them and close them. That's what i did and it fixed.

Keeperion 4 votes

Tnx bro, ur idea worked 4 me

masmanbro3 votes

this works thx

thirstypretzel8 votes

thank you. worked like a charm

xXLordMaticoXx6 votes

Thanks bro this helped a lot! For anyone else having this problem, just open the task manager and check to see if league is running, if so just end all tasks running then hit log off then click cancel and wala.

XXtheBIGsexXX2 votes

you are actally a god broooo thanks heaps

Kiryia9 votes

does anyone have a solution for MAC? [sg-janna]

Ellesar Dragon4 votes

for those on mac If your problem is the same as with those people you can press Command+Option+Escape and from there force kill anything related to league of legends or riot. Command+Alt+Escape(CMD+ALT+ESC) should do the same You can also press Command+Space and them type "Activity Monitor" (without the ""). also Crtl+Alt+Delete should also work in any unmodded mac system then from the menu you go to the apple logo most often in the left top and select force kill, form here you can again kill everything related to league of legends or riot.

There are also a lot of programs in the appstore which are meant to save power or speed up the system by killing certain processes those might also fix the problem especially if they can kill hidden processes.

however note you should not use CRTL+ALT+Delete when not necessary like when the pc isn't completely frozen and there isn't a highly dangerous process/virus active. even though most systems nowadays no longer hold a true kill function related to it. it might still be better to use the less drastic approaches where drastic measures aren't neccecary.

Djinn083 votes

You're a life saver :) summoner 7

Thunder Snap1 votes

damn, it actually worked! Tnx! I turn off and on the computer till now lol

Antopia11 votes

Thank You so much, it worked like a charm.

MyTeamSuc YouWin1 votes

And what about mac users

kyrito1 votes

you are a real ned stark! best solution

Starnaut1 votes

I've been having this problem. Thanks for this :)[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Kategida1 votes

Worked perfectly. Thanks!!

polpogi1 votes

you're a heaven sent! thanks a lot!!!

DootleBob1 votes

This worked right away!! thank you

elvenTerminator1 votes

AMAZING! this really worked for me! The lol process was stuck in my operating system. killing it & restarting solves this

lBMAu1 votes

so many thx bro

PoKeRFaCe10151 votes

thank you so so so much it worked for me as well.

CHEEZBURGRSOUP801 votes

This worked for me easily, thank you so much!

Yuànqì13 votes

this has been happening to me too and after struggling with this for 3 weeks... uninstalling and reinstalling over and over again. I finally found a solution!

Hopefully this works for you guys too. Delete the folder:

C:\Users\YourName\Documents\League of Legends

If you have replays/highlights that you care about, I guess moving the folder somewhere else would also work.

LynxieSquare1 votes

I already did. Plz help: my league of legends is saying "A problem has occued and we can't update league of legends even after repairing it. Visit "...." to let them do their magic and fix the problem" So i visited that cite... nothing... its completely dead but i had these problems several times and i don't know why it's not working. I can't play now or even download it

Pênnywisê8 votes

I have the same issue.. It worked perfectly yesterday, today I tried to open it and all of a sudden it didn't work. The logo poped up and then disappeared. In the task manager it shows up as 3 32 bits leagu of legends when the logo its up and then all of them crash... I reinstalled and it still does the same thing, I updated, I restrated, ran it on admin, opened it through the original location of the lol.exe, ran CC Cleaner and even updated all the drivers but nothing seems to work. I have been playing for a long time! a lot of time invested and lost :). if anyone has a fix please help!

Sandertv3 votes

I was running into the same issue and found something that seems to have worked (at least for now). When it shows the 3 32 bit league instances in the Task Manager, go to 'Details' in the Task Manager at the right after clicking 'More Details' at the left bottom corner. Look for the League of Legends tasks and close them all here. Restarting the game should then 'update' it, and fix it. Not sure if it works for you, but it did for me, so I hope it does.

OrangeMarine5 votes

this has been happening for months for other players and no response. they kinda fixed the issue the past two patches but it's back in fury this patch.

and yeah, uninstalling/reinstalling works for maybe a couple logins. then the issue happens again. Repair tool does nothing to help. Not gonna waste my time keep reinstalling this game.

im done with league of legends.

Jamey3 votes

I'm in the same boat as you, I've updated all the drivers,windows,reinstalled 3 times by now,clean uninstall,etc. and the problem still persists as I cant even get into the login screen and was thinking something was wrong with my PC but now I know it's on the client itself. I was searching for a solution years back for about 3-4 hours and found nothing similar to this so its a really recent type of bug that doesn't effect the majority of people (only I'm affected in a server with 20-ish league players). I think our best bet is to just try our best for this problem to gain visibility via Riot support/social media since its not that common of an issue and who knows when it will be fixed, if ever.

khalasarjones973 votes

Yeah I went on riot's support page and searched through YouTube videos and articles online. I've tried just about everything and I'm pretty much out of options. I mean I can still get the game open by reinstalling it but I don't particularly want to for the rest of my life lol.

Jamey3 votes

Wanted to give an update in case it works for you. I managed to find a board thread with a similar problem and someone suggested downloading CCleaner and restarting and it worked flawlessly. I recommend trying it in case you haven't since it fixed all the issues I was having with the client, cheers~

robertxxl3 votes

after the update i logged in and it didn't open the geme itself afterwards, i used console to forceclose the proceses from lol, opened it again and it also worked fine after that.

Viviannie2 votes

same I just wanna play a game with my friends on league but it won't open

Portnoy16052 votes

Hey guys,

I had this same problem for the past 2 weeks, and today i tried something... I deactivated my antivirus and then proceded to try opening league of legends... and it worked!!!

Somehow, and i don't know why, my antivirus (in my case, i use avg internet security) was blocking my client application and preventing it from opening.

Luckily, i found a way to open LOL without deactivating my antivirus everytime i want to play. So i did my following steps (remember, i did this on avg internet security, if you have a different antivirus, try to find out a similar way to do the same):

1- Open "Avg internet security" and go to "Menu->Settings->General->Blocked and Allowed apps";

2- Click on "+ Allow App";

3- chose the file you want your antivirus to allow, which in this case is "LeagueClient.exe" in the path "C:\Riot Games\League of Legends" (make sure if this is the same path on your pc.

From this point on, you will be able to play league again.

Hope this helps. Have a nice day and GG xD

SDE Deceiver2 votes

Thanks dude <3

m1ro02 votes

thank u i love u so much <3

bblackst2 votes

I had the problem too and after I deleted my Avast Premier "Antivirus" everything worked, you could try it too and delete your antivirus*[slayer-jinx-wink]*

Howldoom2 votes

There was a comment on here that helped me - go to Task Manager and see if League Of Legends appears anywhere in the list. Right click it and select End Task. If it's listed multiple times do the same until they're all gone. Then see if clicking the shortcut makes the client appear again.

Maya Nuriyuki2 votes

[slayer-jinx-wink]

DropThatAdamBomb1 votes

The same exact thing that happened for me. I've had to use many different techniques over the past month just to open the game until finally nothing else worked. The most recent solution i've used for re-opening my league after the patch was to move all of my captures / recordings of clips to my E:)Drive from my C:)Drive. Maybe this will work for you, CC cleaner didn't work for me.

P.s. I spent a fun 7 hours yesterday manually trying to solve this ongoing issue i've been having with league and magically got it to work somehow through administrative sharing settings, but like, RIOT PAY ATTENTION HERE. This is unf*#@^ing acceptable. If it weren't for the fact that I didn't have a life out of league, I would perma-uninstall this game solely for the horrendous amount of issues i've been experiencing due to the recent patch. It's been a MONTH that i've been having to full reinstall, hexrepair, scavenge the internet for no clear solutions, and do who knows what else to my settings related to league JUST TO RE-OPEN THE GAME every time I close out of it..okay rant over, but on a serious note, fix your shit riot.

Witchofdragons1 votes

Can you please tell me exactly how you did it? Mine is having the same problem.

llll YETI1 votes

FIX: 5/7/19

Hi guys, I had the same issue for over a month, did all the recommended things and no joy. Riot support FunderFaker finally got me fixed. Turned out the issue was, the "League of Legends" folder in my "Documents" was to large. Saved the highlights I wanted, and then deleted the whole folder, and League now loads perfectly.

I probably spent 20 hrs trying everything else, not counting the reinstalling league some god knows how many times. Give this a shot. Good luck

jotoko31 votes

This exact thing worked for me too!

Head over to C:\ and then delete the full "Riot Games" folder, then launch the league of legends installer - works now! :D*[slayer-jinx-wink]*

HyggeHejsa1 votes

emh... so firstly there are some places who tells you to delete some files... I think... I found out how to fix it without deleting these files, cuz honestly Idk how to locate them.. so if the things below don't help try to (I copied from another place btw) :

Delete the folder: C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\projects\lol_launcher Re-open LoL. During this time the badge will show as it redownloads the files. Please do not click the badge until it either disappears of LoL opens.

If that does not work, try this (similar to above)

Try the following:

Delete:

  • everything inside C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\downloads
  • lol_air_client and lol_air_client_config_na inside C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\projects
  • everything inside C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\solutions

After deleting ,restart your computer. When restarted, run League of Legends in Administrator Mode.

(My own way):

Do Windows + R + Enter and write Resmon.exe

then go to CPU the 2nd thingy and search League of legends

end them all until there's nothing more maybe reboot or just launch directly after

if it didn't work try to delete random lol files that's what I did

or else try to do the Esxen.exe process :)

hope this worked [sg-kiko]

annnnddd found this link lol I don't even know why I am searching for more solutions rn

https://www.techwhoop.com/league-client-wont-open/

(I swear I edited over 4 times now...)

https://gpugames.com/league-legends-wont-open-solutions-fixes/

Danju1 votes

I fixed it by closing "ROG Game First III" in the task manager

bujabs1 votes

Can any tell me how to fix a problem. In my task manager i have 4 lol aplications opened. And they use my memory full that make game goes 30 Fps.

ShattDown1 votes

I had same problem few days ago, i repair the windows and after i start again league client it show me a error , d3dx9_39.dll missing , after i download it and replace it in the windows folder and i open it again WORKit !!

d3dx9_39.dll - Replace or installed in Windows - Sistem32 ; SysWOW64 maybe work

CLOUTMINION1 votes

yeah it says riot [removed by moderation] or something like that and if I to do something it takes me to a random web page waht de fek rito

Foxynth1 votes

Hey! You! It's you, from the future. My client is giving me the same crap, and it sucks. [zombie-nunu-bummed]

ajnsv1 votes

So i ve done everything: reinstall the game , i ve restarted my computer for 5 times and nothing. I have been playing from season 3 and never had a problem like this. An hour ago i have seen a solution with task manager but it didn t work. I need help and riot you should investigate and resolve this problem because many users are quiting and done with this.

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