Client couldn't start my game.

lnsane Insomniac·Jul 19, 2019·8 votes·4,735 views

So I've been playing ranked all day and every game has been starting normally. This time, my game didn't load and I wasn't taken to the loading screen either. I waited for the second screen (loading screen) to start and it never did, so I quit league and tried to reconnect but the "Reconnect" button never showed. I quit and logged back in one more time but the game had been remade and I lost LP for it.

This only happened to me once, but I figure it's something to point out.

Not sure if it WAS the client, but all other games I've had loaded perfectly with no wifi issues etc., so I'm just going to say it was the client.

19 Comments

DaRudeOne2Jul 19, 20192 votes

Same thing happened to me 10 minutes ago.

Fucking game is full of bugs and instead of fixing them they keep making new fucking skins.

Minerva TheoryJul 21, 20191 votes

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Same thing happened to me 10 minutes ago.

Fucking game is full of bugs and instead of fixing them they keep making new fucking skins.

Different teams.

NomianCZJul 19, 20192 votes

Hey,

same here, now i cannot load client for 10mins :/

BigFBearJul 19, 20192 votes

Happened to me too. Even deactivating Avast didnt help this time!

I needed to restart my WHOLE PC!

Its so frustrating. I need to go to work in 30 minutes and i just wanted a cool game. Now i am fucking frustrated again. This hapeened to me yesterday too.

I actually lost 50 LP in Dia in the last days because of all these shit bugs!

PaladinNOJul 21, 20191 votes

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Happened to me too. Even deactivating Avast didnt help this time!

I needed to restart my WHOLE PC!

If I may ask...why do you have to restart the whole PC?

Minerva TheoryJul 21, 20191 votes

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If I may ask...why do you have to restart the whole PC?

I need to do the same thing. Closing the processes doesn't always help.

PaladinNOJul 21, 20191 votes

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I need to do the same thing. Closing the processes doesn't always help.

As I mentioned in my post above, did you close both processes? I really didn't expect to find the game .exe rather hidden (that one was new to me too) a long way down on the Background Processes-list in Task Manager.

I refuse to believe manually forcing the .exe's to close doesn't work. There may be a variable delay, yes, like when closing a frozen browser, where the memory still needs to be flushed and the computer sorts out clearing the RAM while the CPU works out the details.

This process can take several minutes, depending on your hardware, but I haven't experienced a restart is needed. Not with Windows 10, and not with this game. Restarting does of course work, because that also clears the RAM and closes any running applications, but it shouldn't be necessary.

Minerva TheoryJul 21, 20191 votes

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As I mentioned in my post above, did you close both processes? I really didn't expect to find the game .exe rather hidden (that one was new to me too) a long way down on the Background Processes-list in Task Manager.

I refuse to believe manually forcing the .exe's to close doesn't work. There may be a variable delay, yes, like when closing a frozen browser, where the memory still needs to be flushed and the computer sorts out clearing the RAM while the CPU works out the details.

This process can take several minutes, depending on your hardware, but I haven't experienced a restart is needed. Not with Windows 10, and not with this game.

Like I said, "processes". Closing them doesn't help. Nothing is left behind. And I'm using Win7.

BigFBearJul 21, 20191 votes

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If I may ask...why do you have to restart the whole PC?

Because nothing elese helped anymore. I closed every lol related things via Task Manager but it didn't help.

GUERLAINJul 19, 20192 votes

PaladinNOJul 19, 20192 votes

Just happened to me as well. Played a game of ARAM (by mistake, because I wanted TFT), and queued up for TFT...a match was found, but the game window never showed. Can't reconnect either, because the client tells me the "Game is still in progress."

Tried restarting the client, and it changed nothing.

TrueMetalWarriorJul 20, 20192 votes

Happens same to me. It works after i restart my pc but it is very frustrating to restart game after game and only after ofcourse you get in a game.

PaladinNOJul 19, 20192 votes

Okay, I may have find the issue: The game .exe (seemingly only sometimes) doesn't fully close itself when a match is finished. If you open Task Manager and scroll down to Background Processes (won't show under running applications), you'll likely find the League game window - sitting at 30 % CPU while doing nothing.

Exit the client, close that .exe and start the client again. Then the reconnect button should appear, at least it just did for me.

But this game of Tiltover's Finest Tactics is ruined, making it even more tilting than usual.

EDIT: This is with the Windows 10 Task Manager. And depending on your hardware, it may take a minute before the .exe is actually closed. Something you should be able to track by looking at the CPU/RAM usage.

SahnjinAug 4, 20191 votes

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Okay, I may have find the issue: The game .exe (seemingly only sometimes) doesn't fully close itself when a match is finished. If you open Task Manager and scroll down to Background Processes (won't show under running applications), you'll likely find the League game window - sitting at 30 % CPU while doing nothing.

Exit the client, close that .exe and start the client again. Then the reconnect button should appear, at least it just did for me.

But this game of Tiltover's Finest Tactics is ruined, making it even more tilting than usual.

EDIT: This is with the Windows 10 Task Manager. And depending on your hardware, it may take a minute before the .exe is actually closed. Something you should be able to track by looking at the CPU/RAM usage.

This helped me but I didn't even have to exit the client. Once the process ended, the Reconnect button appeared. Thank you.

TR4ΣH GAMΞJul 24, 20192 votes

Its a hidden message from riot that we should stop wasting time in this trashy game

TlatchgaJul 19, 20191 votes

I am currently having the same problem.

PaladinNOJul 21, 20191 votes

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Okay, okay, I'm just trying to find alternative solutions here, instead of accepting something as "broken" (though this game's spaghetti coding is proven beyond any measure of doubt) and let that be the end of it.

And like I said, it may take minutes before a frozen application is truly closed. You should be able to track this with Task Manager through the RAM and/or CPU usage. Though in the case of Windows 7, a restart may indeed be required.

SawconJul 22, 20191 votes

Just happened to me, I was in the last game of a promo series and I've just lost it now thanks to this bug. Also down to 67lp thanks to it as well. summoner 31