Unable to click on anything in game. No keystrokes work.

Kog·1/18/2018, 7:08:58 AM·7 votes·1,430 views

the chat client works fine. can click on people, talk to friends, start games, etc.

however, when a game starts loading, the league mouse cursor appears for a second, disappears and reverts to my windows mouse cursor. it's the standard one, no flashy cursor or anything. game loads, can't move, type to team, level a skill, ANYTHING. mouse and keyboard are nonexistent to the game for some reason. Have to manually alt-tab and kill the game process.

it started happening in the middle of a game where I was jungling as shyvana and then I just got stuck. couldn't move. alt tabbed back in and out, tried killing the client and restarting and got back into the game where I was still unable to move even after logging out.

tried playing another game to see if it just a one time thing, but it's happening all the time now. don't know what's going on.

things to note about my setup after searching up similar issues: I have dual monitor setup sapphire rx 480 gpu razer naga chroma mouse

I'm not sure if any of this means much but I've been gone from the game for a while and intermittently played a single or two inbetween like a year and a half's time but this is actually my first time ever encountering this problem.

EDIT: UPDATE: I closed discord, started a custom. Game works fine now. It may have something to do with a discord overlay. Unsure. But mouse cursor appears normal in game now and I'm able to issue commands.

Note: I did not have the discord overlay active at the time, but closing discord entirely seems to have fixed it. Once you are able to play, try disabling discord overlay altogether.

6 Comments

Kog1/18/2018, 7:20:21 AM5 votes

UPDATE: I closed discord, started a custom. Game works fine now. It may have something to do with a discord overlay. Unsure. But mouse cursor appears normal in game now and I'm able to issue commands.

Note: I did not have the discord overlay active at the time, but closing discord entirely seems to have fixed it. Once you are able to play, try disabling discord overlay altogether.

Natake1/18/2018, 7:14:03 AM2 votes

Same, me too

exermatic1/18/2018, 7:52:08 PM1 votes

THIS just happened to me. Just finished my placements, thought I'd play my first match. The client works fine, everything responds properly but when I load in. I get reverted to default windows mouse cursor and nothing in the game works, clicks, enter, alt f4, nothing.

HalcyonDweller1/18/2018, 7:56:29 PM1 votes

Seen a few other people have this issue recently as well, it might have to do with the recent windows updates. Here's hoping that the Riot team notices and helps out with this. +1

In the meantime you might be best served by submitting a support ticket to Riot Support, as that is the best way to actually reach them about a technical difficulty that is impacting your games.

Kog1/19/2018, 5:15:42 AM1 votes

bump this, I've edited the OP with a solution, would like for people to see it so that they don't share frustration with this problem.