Please look into the new FPS drops issue

Fisher No Chains·Aug 3, 2018·65 votes·21,216 views

Well, it's not a new problem for me, I've had FPS drops and stuttering for quite some time, but this patch made everything unbearable. Every patch the game goes worse and worse, the client is laggy as fuck and in-game performance goes downhill the more patches get released. Right now I can only play decently for 5-10 minutes, then FPS start dropping over time and my screen stutters for 0.5/1s quite often. It's annoying and unplayable.

My specs: AMD Quad-Core A10-9600P (2,4 GHz), AMD R5 integrated card, AMD R7 M340 discrete GPU (2GB), 16GB RAM.

40 Comments

LumastarAug 4, 201815 votes

The same thing is happening to me, it keeps dropping for longer and longer intervals the more the game goes on.

LowgdogAug 4, 201811 votes

Was thinking it's my PC but good to see others experiencing it. I just recently upgraded to a GTX 1080 and I have an i5-8600k so there should be no issues with League but its so stuttery and consistently drops fps. On top of that I get a 1 FPS freeze on the beginning of every game

Fisher No ChainsAug 4, 20184 votes

Does that 1FPS drop happen when you open the shop for the first time?

Every time I open the shop at the start of a match my FPS die for 1/2s :(

LowgdogAug 4, 20182 votes

No man as soon as I load into fountain I can see the FPS at 1. Then it goes back up just to begin getting framey throughout the game. I run on 144hz as well which sucks because if it dips anything below that it is extremely noticeable. When I open up shop though I drop from whatever FPS im at to like 100 which essentially causes a little hiccup in my game

Fisher No ChainsAug 4, 20182 votes

Okay just played a game and yes, it happens to me too, basically a 1s hard freeze when the map loads.

As for the shop yeah, for some reason it causes FPS drops too. I wonder what a small indie company can do about it...

WarllordAug 3, 20186 votes

having the same issue ... still havent seen any riot response even after i've seen over 8k views on some of these posts that are around about it

AxlararAug 4, 20186 votes

Same here. Soon as the new patch dropped, I start a game out fine, but then after about 4-7 mins my fps slowly start dropping randomly. First to around 70, then 40, and starting around 10 minutes, I go down to 1 fps freezes like Lowgdog mentioned above. Not to mention that as the game goes on, it just gets laggier and laggier more often. Those fps freezes usually end up happening every 10 seconds, and they last longer each time. Oddly enough though, after a game restart, my fps never drop again. It's gotten to the point that as soon as I load in, I have to quit and restart just so I won't have to deal with the fps drops in the middle of a fight or gank.

So far, I've tried updating my drivers, repairing league, and reinstalling it, but nothing's really changed.

Specs: Intel i5- 8400 GTX 1070 TI 16 GB RAM

przybytekAug 4, 20184 votes

I have exactly the same problem with my new MSI GS65:

*GeForce 1060

*i7-8750H

*16GB RAM

*LoL installed on SSD

Temperature of CPU is max 76°C and GPU 60°C. Installed the newest nVidia drivers 398.82 WHQL

Game runs OK for the first few minutes of the game, then starts to freeze - first freeze is 1 second long, the next ones longer and longer. Restarting the game resets the problem. Running in borderless / windowed mode seems to make the freezes shorter.

LowgdogAug 4, 20182 votes

Where do you live? I've never seen temps like that for a computer while playing League but I could be wrong. Maybe check your temps when playing and see if your PC is being bottlenecked

przybytekAug 4, 20182 votes

These temps aren't that high for a thin notebook AFAIK. Playing more demanding games (Witcher 3, Fortnite) rises temperature to about 85°C CPU and 70°C but even so everything runs smooth.

LowgdogAug 4, 20182 votes

Damn I see why now. Did not realize it was a laptop until you told me. My GPU never goes past 35c and my CPU never goes past 40c playing League so i was worried for you but that makes sense

Doctor FillgoodAug 4, 20185 votes

Every few patches for me. I've been told to uninstall in the past from a CS rep since there was no fix we could find. The next patch it worked again. I don't know whats worse, the balance or this every few patches.

Kitten EaterAug 4, 20185 votes

its been happening since after every patch for 2 months now. its hit or miss per patch but happens to a lot of people.

SugeMinPikkAug 4, 20184 votes

Mine drops to 1 FPS at the start of the game, at around 30 seconds, then sits at around the normal 200 the rest of the time lmao

LowgdogAug 4, 20183 votes

Mine drops to 1 FPS at the beginning as well, then goes upwards towards 300+, and then drops from like 120-200. I run on a 144hz too so it sucks :/

TraujaAug 4, 20184 votes

help rito

Trant AensAug 4, 20183 votes

yup

KFCeytronAug 4, 20183 votes

New issue? This has been happening for years. Reformatting your hard drive, reinstalling OS, and reinstalling LoL should help (did for me a few years ago). I'm due for it again, but it's such a huge hassle I kind of don't want to right now.

Fisher No ChainsAug 4, 20183 votes

Just don’t. I’ve done it TWICE (Jesus those 8 hours to clean-reinstall Windows) but no improvements, just a massive waste of time.

WolfdoggAug 4, 20183 votes

It's definitely something wrong with LOL after patches. I can play DOTA with no problem. But LOL I can log in normal. As soon as I start a game it drops to 0 fps.

LowgdogAug 4, 20182 votes

I even tested on Rainbow Six and Overwatch to see if my FPS was stuttering or dipping and not a single time did i see them drop. But on top of that, those games use arguably more resources so there is no way we can't run League smoothly. I even upgraded from a 1070 to a 1080 because I thought my card was just dying slowly.

AtaraxasAug 5, 20183 votes

Rito plz fix, has me restarting in middle of clutch games and losing leads :(

BrokeAug 5, 20183 votes

I don't log on the league forums but when I do it's unplayable. :D

SaggyWangAug 4, 20182 votes

IMPORTANT: For MSI computers DELETE "NAHIMIC" processes. IT WORKED FOR ME!!!!

FrankieAndMeAug 4, 20182 votes

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/EkkXQLuL-solution-progressive-fps-stutterlag-starting-7-10-minutes-until-game-is-fully-frozen

Here's the fix.

SpyKayleAug 5, 20182 votes

Same happens to me. I used to play at 200 fps, now its 100 or lower and my computer is fine. I even went on low spec mode, client goes off during games too and it STILL is bad. If not worse even. I get stutters and skips at 100 fps or 80. It gets worse as the game goes on

Kristari ZuboroAug 5, 20182 votes

I have the same issue, and like the OP, the first time I experienced it was around 8.xx, and after a patch it was resolved. I have experienced this issue again during EVERY game of League that I play, only while playing League since the Akali patch. I've watched it and it always starts around 7-8 minutes into the game. After the issue starts, it repeats roughly every 15 - 20 seconds. The issue is a total freeze of the screen for approximately 1.5 seconds, and any inputs prior to the freeze appear to carried out. I.e. if I clicked to a movement spot, and then the screen freezes, after the duration of the freeze my character is at the location clicked.

I don't have an MSI computer and I don't have a process named anything like "NAHIMIC".

i7-3770k, 1080 gtx ti, 16 gb of ram, all SSD storage. No issues with any other game, I play DCS at max values with Occulus Rift which is far more taxing on my PC than League.

About to update my Nvidia driver to see if this resolves it: Currently @ Nvidia Driver Version 388.59 12/07/17

Installing Nvidia Driver Version 398.82 8/01/2018.

Ok, after installing the newer driver there's no difference. I still have the same issue, but this time I REALLY paid attention to the screen freezes. Starts EXACTLY 7:01 mins into the game, and on the dot, every 30 secs the issue happens. So, 7:31, 8:01, 9:31, 10:01, 10:31, etc. My initial observations I didn't pay attention as closely and estimated it to be every 15-20 seconds.

Going to bed for the night, but if you believe it's a process issue then it shouldn't be hard to capture with a process capture. I'll look at that tomorrow.

Link to TaskMgr process list: https://imgur.com/4WYYV4k

FrankieAndMeAug 5, 20182 votes

Ok, so since we have different computers, it is hard to tackle which process is affecting your device. I want you to try 2 things that might work:

Open discord, go to user settings, click the overlay tab, and disable the overlay feature. This doesn't change anything in Discord and you can turn it back on if it doesn't fix the issue.
Go to task manager and end task for the "MSI Afterburner". I'm not sure why that's even running. This process has been causing issues alongside Rivatuner Statistics, but I don't thing you have that one. Just end this task and run LoL again go see if it works.

*If these don't work, I believe the root problem to be this: During the 7 min mark in a LoL game, a specific process causes CPU usage to rise up a lot. This causes overheating and FPS issues. Whichever process randomly spikes up during the FPS stutters is what is causing your issue. For MSI users, it was Nahimic. So track this during a game and you might be able to fix it.

Trant AensAug 5, 20181 votes

Closing MSI Afterburner / Rivatuner is what worked for me. Thanks for this.

FrankieAndMeAug 5, 20181 votes

That's good to know! I just updated my post to include the following information. Hopefully, this helps the others who don't have Nahimic.

SubtractiveAug 5, 20182 votes

Same Issue not on an MSI computer. No Nahimic. :( any ideas what else can be done? tried everything.

KüramaAug 5, 20181 votes

Unfortunately, there is no other fix at this time.

LiupyAug 6, 20182 votes

Exact same issue! Exact same APU as you, there is an issue with the r series of graphics and league of legends for some reason. It is a complete software compatibility issue!!

LiupyAug 6, 20181 votes

I have the same apu a10 as you this has been an issue for me since around November or so

SmuglatorMar 9, 20191 votes

I have the same issue on my desktop. Used to get 260+ FPS when uncapped. Now I get an average of 70 FPS: i5-4590S GTX 1070 16Gb RAM

GPU usage never goes higher than 15% CPU usage is maxing one one core.

My MSI GS65 with an i7-8750H and a GTX 1060 gets around 240 FPS when uncapped.

Nothing i've tried to far has had any effect and I've tried everything short of fresh windows install, which i'm not going to try as that is not a guaranteed fix.

Riot needs to fix this!

LazyNickAug 7, 20182 votes

i am having stuttering as well i have it capped at 60 fps vsynced doesnt matter tho very high or low graphics vsync or not. i get 2 frames drops from 60 to 58 and it feels very stuttery.also when opening shop to buy items it drops 10 frames,if i open the shop immediately after that no fps drop. i repaired uninstalled changed hard drives nothing run the hextech repair tool run full repair tried everything still stutters. i play many games without any problem. i5 3570k gtx 970 8 gb ram

ONEBarrleNov 16, 20181 votes

so? how can we solve this problem because i had the same problem for long time and every time i ask some one he tell me that my pc need to get new upgrades but i did what they told me to do but still the fps drops every time i fight with someone or just farming minions