[CRASH] Game launch crashes on 9.20 under WINE

Ionian Kûsh·Oct 10, 2019·14 votes·30,813 views

Crashing in-game on patch 9.20 - "A critical error has occurred"

As mentioned on the r/leagueoflinux subreddit no games can launch under WINE as of 9.20. I know Linux isn't officially supported but there is a passionate group of players who only play on Linux, myself included. I was very pleased to see that League ran well under WINE and haven't had any issues playing all summer. I hope this bug can get resolved soon either by Riot, WINE, or the Lutris AppImage maintainers.

I'm playing under Lutris but any WINE installation should work.

Steps to reproduce

Launch client under WINE
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Launch any game mode. In this case, try practice tool.

33 Comments

gunstar1Oct 10, 20195 votes

Affects me too. Linux mint 18, on WINE. Very sad as was working to climb up to gold for end of season :(

jpreston84Oct 10, 20195 votes

I am yet another happy Linux player who can't play your broken game any more, Riot. Worse yet, when I switch back to Windows, I can't get into game either. The irony of all this is that the cheaters you were probably trying to block probably can bypass your anti-cheat system already anyway (they usually figure out workarounds within a day or two, while it takes the Linux community weeks to catch up because we don't cheat).

ArchanyhmOct 10, 20194 votes

Yep, same here on Arch Linux (5.3.4-zen)

Lost a ranked game because of those crashes. I get that Linux isn't officially supported, but c'mon

DvLnMeOct 10, 20194 votes

Same here, Kubuntu 19.04. Lost 2 ranked TFT games.

Pierre GanthorOct 10, 20194 votes

In 2017, riot games posted that we should keep our hopes up for Linux support "in the near future".

Twitter link : https://twitter.com/RiotSupport/status/855140809229967362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E855140809229967362&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fboards.na.leagueoflegends.com%2Fen%2Fplayer%2Feuw%2FPierre%2520Ganthor

Is 2019 "near future" enough ?

By some miracle, your post stayed alive without anyone coming in saying "but why don't you just install windows ? that's what everybody does !". I make the incredible prediction that someone will post that soon "in the near future".

If you cook your vegan friend some meat, you better not say "but why can't you just eat this meat ? that's what everybody does !".

Tristana Once a Linux user, Always a Linux user !

f3zz1kOct 10, 20193 votes

I stopped playing LoL 4 years ago due to toxic community but decided to come back and give it another go this week. Did my ranked placements yesterday no problem. Today I figure I'll try a few more ranked games but discover that the game is completely broken and unplayable. To add insult to injury the system slaps a game loss penalty even though I could not get into the game due to a buggy patch.

I remember 4 years ago it was a pain in the ass working around all the bugs in the client but it seems that things have only gotten worse. From what I can tell the crashes seem to be due to some anti-cheating spaghetti code clobbered into the game.

The worse part is RIOT isn't working to resolve the problem, they won't even take the time to publicly achnowledge the current situation. I get that RIOT management does not value the 1-2% of their income that comes from players who primarily use linux but it's not so hard to at least allow someone to test changes on linux ahead of time to see if a patch is completely broken. Heck, that would provide them with better QA on their code for a more stable windows client.

If it's not fixed in the next week I will be moving on to other games. Just wish I could take the money that I spent back.

D3MORGOct 13, 20191 votes

Actually it has been working very well. The only bug I ever run into is if someone messages you ingame, it takes the focus off the game and into the launcher interface, then you can no longer move the map with mouse edging.

The toxic player base is almost entirely gone. The reason for this believe it or not is mostly Fortnite haha.

grasaturadaOct 10, 20193 votes

same here...

BrickchefOct 10, 20193 votes

Same Problem (Lutris AppImage, Archlinux, Kernel 5.3.5)

Rokko6Oct 10, 20193 votes

Linux Mint 19.2 -using WINE I have trouble starting the game at all ever since 9.20 dropped

ChaosNyxOct 10, 20193 votes

Count as one more with the same problem item 3905

Kaynix RushOct 10, 20193 votes

f*cking riot. MAKE A NATIVE CLIENT for Linux. Morans.

Ionian KûshOct 10, 20193 votes

Bump - Any updates? A bug was filed on the WINE tracker https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47915 The issue was also mentioned on the Lutris forums https://forums.lutris.net/t/lol-critical-error-whenever-starting-the-game/7218

Maybe RiotBoatStuff can give us a update?

RiotRiot BoatStuffOct 11, 20197 votes

I'm trying to get one. For full transparency, I don't work on the game (backend data engineer), I just also prefer to play on Linux so I'm less of an expert on it and more one of you on the inside.

Ionian KûshOct 11, 20192 votes

Awesome. Thank you sir! Looking forward to your update :).

RiotRiot BoatStuffOct 11, 20194 votes

EnglishDentist has got an update: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflinux/comments/dglo0f/experimental_patch_for_920/

Eve WidowmakerOct 12, 20191 votes

ty that work prefectily

666BadLucifer666Oct 13, 20191 votes

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ty that work prefectily

How did you do it? Can you explain it to me,please? Or send video step by step? Please..

Eve WidowmakerOct 13, 20191 votes

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflinux/comments/dgpjcg/ive_just_put_compiled_binaries_for_winelol_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x if u juste follow that u'll able to install it juste be carful u can only start lol inside a terminal with WINEPREFIX ... tell me if u can do it or if u need help ^^

666BadLucifer666Oct 13, 20191 votes

{quoted}

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflinux/comments/dgpjcg/ive_just_put_compiled_binaries_for_winelol_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x if u juste follow that u'll able to install it juste be carful u can only start lol inside a terminal with WINEPREFIX ... tell me if u can do it or if u need help ^^

It works, thank you!

SasalamiOct 13, 20191 votes

Thx ! It works like a charm. Thx for all the motivated people who help building this patch :-) !

666BadLucifer666Oct 13, 20191 votes

[{quoted}](name=Riot BoatStuff,realm=NA,application-id=LqLKtMpN,discussion-id=rJNQJbHh,comment-id=000c000000000000,timestamp=2019-10-11T21:39:37.689+0000)

EnglishDentist has got an update: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflinux/comments/dglo0f/experimental_patch_for_920/

Thank you very much! It works!!

Purple HatOct 11, 20193 votes

Yes they should have done a native client by now, it doesn't make sense to be able to have a client for apple devices and not for Linux... For now my friends in Linux one alternative ( which I also don't like but I have no choice) is passthrough your gpu on a win10 vm with looking glass and play, its a nice project also...

SasalamiOct 11, 20193 votes

That's a sad situation. "Nobody " uses Linux because there isn't any game on it. But no producer release game on Linux because there is no player.

Just break that circle Riot ! I want to play my little Lux Lux a little time more !

MartagnanOct 12, 20191 votes

Considering how hard it is to play LoL on Linux with all these crashes and broken states after patches - there are a lot of people playing LoL on Linux!

TisNaNOct 10, 20192 votes

same (Ubuntu 18.04 based Elementary OS 5)

MartagnanOct 12, 20192 votes

I am affected as well. It is also sad not only for the Linux players but also for all other players having to face 4v5's because the Linux player cannot join the game. So basically these issues are making the game bad for a way larger base of players than just the Linux one's.

Mlocik97Oct 11, 20191 votes

I know Riot is totally pooping on Linux, but at least, he should support Wine, if not Linux natively.

Eve WidowmakerOct 11, 20191 votes

pls if someone find a solution to fix the problem post the link here (broken on ubuntu 18.04 with wine btw)[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Ionian KûshOct 11, 20191 votes

Bump - I was hoping to get an update from a Riot employee by End-Of-Week. I wasn't hoping for much, but at least an acknowledgement that they are aware of the issue.

If I have any new information regarding workarounds or patches I'll let everyone know here.

EDIT: See RiotBoatStuffs reply here https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/rJNQJbHh-crash-game-launch-crashes-on-920-under-wine?comment=000c0000

Brushman xDOct 13, 20191 votes

My game crashed on Windows 10, i just queued up for ranked, game didn't even show blackscreen nor popped up the window for league just stood there saying 'not responding' i restarted it but game was like; NO.

Ionian KûshOct 14, 20191 votes

The patch linked by RiotBoatStuff works! Thank you everyone who worked so expediently getting us unblocked. I was able to play throughout the weekend!

This bug can be closed.

JosueBosingwaOct 31, 20191 votes

Hi, is there any way you can make a video or simple instructions on how to apply the patch? my friend is new to wine and he is trying to get his league client to work for 9.20