[Wannabe Mac Megathread] The Last Patch Broke LoL on OS X

Guiboulou·10/28/2017, 4:50:58 PM·21 votes·2,300 views

Hello fellow Mac players,

I have experienced multiple bugs on Mac since the last patch and looking around the boards, so have a lot of other people. I figured we should make one big thread rather than a hundred small ones to improve visibility.

Chat formatting is completely screwed

  1. Clicking on enemy summoner spells breaks the chat. It doesn't show up and then the following messages are all weird. They'll show wrong colours, show the person who clicked on the summoner spell's name as part of the following message, stuff like that. You'll never be able to see enemy summoner spell timers.
  2. Pressing Z (or any other key you bound to see expand the chat window) doesn't work in like half the games. It will only show the first few messages that were ever sent and shows less and less messages as more messages get sent.
  3. Sometimes (most of the time), messages just straight up don't show up. There is the noise telling you a message was posted, but you can't see it. Occasionally, it will appear later on. Sometimes, you'll never see it.

FPS drops and freezes

  1. A lot of people have reported FPS drops, but I have only experienced them twice myself, so I will wait until you guys give me more details to update this section of the post. What happened to me was that my FPS dropped to like 7 mid-way through the games. Both times, I had to close down League and come back to fix it. The problem is, it completely crashed my computer both times so that I had to forcefully reboot it, which cost me about two minutes of the game.
  2. My game freezes randomly for a few seconds, especially in the heat of battle.

Crashes Tying in with what I said above, trying to close down the bugged Mac version will often crash your entire computer. I would like someone who has experienced it more often than me to give some details so I can update this section.

Having shitty FPS, freezes and being completely unable to use the chat–a very important tool–properly is quite literally game breaking. This is godawful because this patch is the last patch to play ranked and we're being stripped from the possibility unless Riot puts out a hotfix, which I really hope they do. Is there no bug testing done on Macs? There should be, and this should've been caught. The chat bug happens literally every single game.

I'm personally on OS X El Capitan [10.11.6], playing on a late 2015 iMac with an Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 card.

Please leave your bug reports and Mac specs down below, and let's get this thing fixed ASAP.

28 Comments

The Boxes10/30/2017, 1:56:12 PM3 votes

I completely agree with you. After this patch, my game started to crash once a game. It's also really annoying that when i want to click on someone's summoner spells, the chat just stops working. Also, after it crashes, sometimes it won't reopen and then I'm forced to restart my computer, which results in a loss.

Majesty Luna10/31/2017, 9:14:03 AM3 votes

Can confirm this problems on mac :(

TuscanMarauder10/31/2017, 5:45:10 PM3 votes

I've been having exactly the same problems as described (I play on Mac too). If an enemy summoner spell is pinged it appears blank it will just have whoever pinged its name then a blank space then the entire chat format mucks up - wrong colour of text, brackets in the wrong place. Very annoying as a jungler as I can't tell if an enemy has burned flash or not if I didn't witness it. Hopefully a solution can be found soon!

SpookyNeedle10/29/2017, 12:24:04 AM2 votes

I've had the first one a lot and fps drops

OneShotIsEnough10/29/2017, 12:44:16 AM2 votes

Macbook 2012, cant see what I'am writing, cant see anything when any1 press on a summoner spell, just the name of the one who wrote it and nothing else, cant see my teammates ults cds.

ldsjm410/29/2017, 1:14:47 AM2 votes

I'm having the summoner spell one, was trying to tell my team orne flashed and tp'd but it just said "ldsjm4 (yorick) (forget what was here) ldsjm4 (yorick)

AbeForgotZhonyas10/29/2017, 3:42:35 AM2 votes

Also having the pinging spells issue. In addition, last game the enemy team took dragon, and we could still ping it as alive, I have a MAC but idk about the rest of my team. They saw it as alive in chat as well.

Procella10/29/2017, 7:06:04 AM2 votes

On 2017 MacBook Pro and I've been getting weird fps drops 1-2 times a game a ever since the last update. Also for some reason I can't ping summoner spells or item/ability cooldowns. It just pops up with the name and the time it was pinged.

SeptiKKK10/29/2017, 2:23:44 PM2 votes

YES ! Thank you ! Do something Riot it's REALLY annoying ! Almost lost 2 games because of this (had to type instead of pinging which cost me 2 bad timing deaths..). It's been 22h since the post was post.. Did anyone of them have seen it ?

I'm on iMac early 2008 with Yosemite if that can help and it's the same here in EUW. Is there any support thread where u can report bugs ?

And that's some of the many bugs on Mac... Riot do something for mac players thank you. :)

PS: sorry if I'm english is bad tried my best. :p

77531001DEL110/29/2017, 3:10:42 PM2 votes

Yep https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support/eZgur5yZ-please-fix-the-game-crashes-low-fps-with-mac-os-high-sierra

I formatted my mac to downgrade from High Sierra and it's fine mostly, though it ends up dropping from the usual 100 fps to 40-50 halfway through the game.

FiftyFathoms10/29/2017, 9:48:38 PM2 votes

I am having the same issues. 2015 MBP retina, ver 10.12.6.

xaz8542110/30/2017, 5:25:28 PM2 votes

I have a late 2011 MBP and I’m experiencing these issue also. PLEASE RITO...HELP US!!

Mullet Belt10/30/2017, 5:30:35 PM2 votes

I haven't experienced any crashing, lag or framerate drops (I'm on Sierra with a 2016 Macbook Pro), but I've definitely gotten some weird stuff in the chat.

https://pasteboard.co/GRhzMlg.png

Some games it's totally fine, so it may only be happening when I ping a summoner spell.

OneShotIsEnough10/30/2017, 11:13:18 PM2 votes

Happened to me again played a game and got 250 ms constant, the drops when upp to 1,5k+ms , have excellent internet, fiber 100/100, and a ms on 18,5 when i checked it. Restarted not only the game, the whole lol launcher, still the same problems, this problem happens only in certain games, this game were ofc my promos. Never had these problems b4 the patch. Kinda tired these laggs destroying alot of games.

WildyB10/28/2017, 6:01:19 PM2 votes

I'm on a 2012 retina mbp and I've been having the chat issues but not the fps drop/crashing issues

AverageSpoon10/28/2017, 9:47:15 PM2 votes

Lost a game because my fps went under 10 in the last team fight :/

Juggernaut62810/28/2017, 9:47:20 PM2 votes

I'm on a Mac desktop from 2003 (don't judge me) and I've not only had the chat bugs, but for quite a while now I randomly get fps drops when specific abilities, champs, and skins are on my screen, such as MF E and Dark Star Thresh. The fps drops could just be me, but I'm sure that the chat bugs aren't.

King0fTh3North11/2/2017, 10:59:51 PM1 votes

Not so much my FPS dropping, but chat issues are a big pain. Also on a mac

FiftyFathoms11/2/2017, 11:07:58 PM1 votes

bump

SeptiKKK11/3/2017, 4:07:33 PM1 votes

Well it's fixed for me, dunno for you guys..? ^^