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[CLIENT] Game opening in Windowed mode, unable to select anything in-game.

sid234·2/28/2018, 4:46:24 AM·3 votes·1,644 views

I had the game switch to a weird windowed mode for me at the start of an ARAM game today. I can see the border of the game window and it isn't fully maximized on the screen either. The game connects and shows me in Spawn, and I can hear all the in-game music,etc but I have no control over anything in-game with either the mouse or Keyboard. A few minutes later I end up getting an AFK warning.

The mouse cursor is the default windows cursor as well and nothing I do( Tried Alt+Enter, Alt+Tab, going into config mode and setting game to full screen mode (results in same issue on game launch, but a full screen version of it)) seems to allow me play the game in the client.

I read something about maybe having discord running in the background being the issue? So will try to see if playing without discord after a full restart makes a difference.

Would really appreciate it if anyone else has experienced this issue before shares how they managed to get their game running again?

Thank You.

2 Comments

Final Spark Lux2/28/2018, 6:43:06 PM1 votes

I've never heard of the problem switching the game to windowed mode before, that sounds odd. As for not being able to do anything, Riot found that discord overlays were causing a problem where the game wasn't receiving any input, so if you use discord, try turning off your overlays.

If you don't use discord, or disabling the overlays doesn't work, try running League of Legends in administrator mode. You can do this by closing the game, right-clicking on it's icon, and selecting the "Run as Administrator" option.

You should also be careful about using any other additional apps or modifications, as they can be prone to causing issues, and they're not something Riot supports. You can read more about Riot's stance regarding this here: Third Party Applications.