[Client] Computer Struggles to Load Up the Game

lioganda·Apr 9, 2018·1 votes·821 views

For the past couple of months, every time I would boot up my comp and load into my first League game, it would take a long time for the loading screen to pop up. If I would be on discord with my friends, their voices would be very jittery and I could barely hear them until the loading screen pops up. I would check all of my comp's vitals whenever this would happen and my cpu usage would shoot up to 100% until the loading screen pops up, then it goes back down. This has never happened before until about a few months ago. But this only happens on the first game. Its fine after this. I'm not sure what's causing this issue. Is there something I should do? Maybe reinstall the game?

My comp specs: Nvidia GTX 1070 Intel i5 6600K 3.5GHz 16GB DDR4 RAM

2 Comments

Gear JammerApr 9, 20181 votes

Sound like a HDD issue... Crystal Mark is a good diagnostic tool for that.

Also is league installed via HDD or SSD both require specific maintenance to run properly.

Reasoning for suspecting a HD issue: Windows is caching files so subsequent loads are smoother yet your first load on a fresh PC bootup is slow as the HD is having to pull all the data and move it to RAM.... When your HD is not performing up to speed this can cause severe bottlenecks in performance.

liogandaApr 10, 20181 votes

The game is installed on one of my HDDs.

My Crystal Mark scores are kind of confusing. My other hard drive (the one I store all of my steam games) has nearly the same results, so I'm not sure if they're both fine or both bad.

Read (MB/s) Seq Q32T1 161.6 4KB Q8T8 0.724 4KB Q32T1 0.773 4KB Q1T1 0.333

Write (MB/s) Seq Q32T1 133.5 4KB Q8T8 0.896 4KB Q32T1 0.907 4KB Q1T1 0.920