[IN-GAME] Chat suddenly stops working

Sakura Kitty·10/25/2017, 10:01:34 PM·11 votes·933 views

The in-game chat will sometimes freak out and stop working after a while of being in game. Usually happens when someone pings something, though other times it was purely random. The chat completely stops feeding in information even though you can hear it make the sounds for something being said. It takes a while but it fixes itself after a few minutes.

Steps:

  1. Get into a game
  2. Play for more than 8-10min
  3. Try to ping something: a champion, an item, etc. Or just skip to 4, sometimes it isn't dependent on you pinging.
  4. Try to write something in chat and see that nothing comes up after the ping.
  5. Wait 1-3min and see the chat come back with everything that you've missed in that time.

As the chat disappears you'll still hear the sound of someone writing something in chat, even yourself. This happened before the recent patch as well as in the newest one 7.20/7.21

Update 10/28/17: Just wanted to point out this issue is more frequent than before. The freezing of the chat happens more often in game as well as happening every game instead of just once every few games. I'd also like to point out I'm playing on a Mac, as most users below pointed that out.

6 Comments

NecroticFX10/27/2017, 11:50:54 AM5 votes

same here, i have this weird chat glitch, also im using a mac so thats probably the problem. It only started happening this patch (7.21). Hopefully riot can fix this.

WildyB10/25/2017, 11:53:30 PM4 votes

Chat was fine last patch but I started getting this issue this patch. I'm on a mac btw.

PestControlGuy10/26/2017, 10:12:57 AM4 votes

I’m on a Mac also and that happens

King0fTh3North10/26/2017, 8:31:56 PM4 votes

Same I am on mac and when I try to ping an enemy summoner spell or something it just bugs out and it writes some weird stuff. I don't know what is going on but it is an issue

Binch10/26/2017, 4:34:59 AM3 votes

I'm getting this now too when this has never happened before. Sometimes it will fix itself and I'll see everything that has been pinged but then it will randomly stop working again and all of the pings and chatting won't work or it will just show like summoner name and champ who pinged or chatted and just blankness after instead of what was pinged. (On a mac also, don't know if that has anything to do with it.)

King0fTh3North10/28/2017, 1:27:20 AM2 votes

RIOT please fix this, so annoying