My League client won't open up the loading screen, and I've been losing LP and getting Leavebusters.

Erase Riven·8/8/2019, 4:14:50 PM·22 votes·11,167 views

Randomly in my matches the loading screen just won't show up, and say "the game is still in progress". I tried to end task in the task manager but it doesn't work, and the only way it seems is to restart my pc, which for me, starts up very slow, so by the time I load in I'll probably be marked as AFK. Anyone having the same issues?

18 Comments

CytheGuy8/8/2019, 6:43:05 PM7 votes

The solution I have found (until Riot fixes it on their end) is this:

  • Open Task Manager and find a "LeagueClient.exe" with the description "League of Legends (TM) Client" (This one in particular is the actual game, the others are processes of your actual client)
  • Close and rerun your client using the shortcut on your desktop/bar/start menu. If your client is set to close when you start a game then you just need to run the client executable. -At this point the client should either have you relog or it will display "Game is still in progress"
  • End the task described in step one -Now your client should change from showing "Game is still in progress" to prompting the "Reconnect" button
  • Press reconnect and you should be given the loading screen
HEALTH FOUNTAIN8/8/2019, 4:42:47 PM4 votes

hiii, the solution has been found, although it is a temporary one!

go to c://users/youruser/documents/league of legends

and delete the league of legends folder, or dig deeper in and keep the highlights you like and delete the others

it fixed it for me and I hope it does so for you too

Fönikku8/8/2019, 4:20:47 PM3 votes

Anyone having the same issues?

Literally all regions have this issue, as I did few digging last night OCE, EuW, NA, LAN, EUNE players reported this.

Ending League executable via task manager, then re-log in, if you are lucky you might get the game screen to show, it took me sometimes 4 tries to get into the game, it wasn't too harsh since I don't play ranked, but let's hope they fix it in patch 9.16.

rtbf2183861978/8/2019, 4:20:33 PM3 votes

Try reinstalling the game, in case nothing gets fixed tho just wait till a future update, this season is pretty weird and buggy

Ta Kraken8/9/2019, 5:38:09 PM1 votes

I have a similar issue, but I do not need to restart my computer. The "solution" I found was to use the task manager to close League entirely (all instances that show up, (which is usually two clients and another 3 windows for some reason......), then relaunch the game. As soon as I log back in it puts me back into the loading screen.

Solution is in quotations however, because doing this apparently temporarily resets your client, basically forgetting you ever played the game. It reenables newbie tips, walks you through the "new 2019 season", and clears all your rune pages. Leaving the total number of rune pages available, but they no longer exist until you remake them.

There is a 50/50 chance if you log out and log back in that the runes will come back. I have had to remake all 21 of my rune pages on 6 separate occasions this week, while about another 4 times I relogged and they were back.

Not sure if this is much help to you guys, but this is the only way I have found to "fix" the issue. Although it often happens again 2-3 games later.

1 800 AFK FARM 18/9/2019, 6:34:01 PM1 votes

Thank you Riot, it is not like that, i already have bad games and now the faking loading screen... thx

Kaiji700M8/9/2019, 8:27:25 PM1 votes

yes this happens to me too only today

IxenQidansecor8/9/2019, 11:58:39 PM1 votes

You dont have to restart your computer. Just log off then log back on. I get this bug once ever 4 game or so and this makes the game transition from lobby to ingame every time. You can usually do this fast enough to join the game within the first 10 seconds of the match starting. You may have to close other applications such as your music playlist but its the fastest and best fix imo until they actually fix the game.

Thorn Fierce Red8/11/2019, 2:48:10 AM1 votes

The only way to solve this is by Long Off ur PC but when u return to the Match , Game automatic punish u with have more then 5 Minutes afk and will not have any experience or IP won.

ChillxIGotThis8/9/2019, 4:31:37 AM1 votes

The same thing is happening to me. It really sucks having to restart my computer every time I try to enter a game.

FireDrizzle8/9/2019, 7:48:01 AM1 votes

Try running as administrator if you are not. This is a basic (potential) fix for problems but I didn't see it listed or you saying you tried it so I will suggest it anyway.

lukaprekovic20068/9/2019, 5:19:34 PM1 votes

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Randomly in my matches the loading screen just won't show up, and say "the game is still in progress". I tried to end task in the task manager but it doesn't work, and the only way it seems is to restart my pc, which for me, starts up very slow, so by the time I load in I'll probably be marked as AFK. Anyone having the same issues?

Same bro, plz fix that it happened to 10 times or more