Sitting here as I'm about to lose a placement match because I alt tabbed

TS Media··3 votes·539 views

And now I can't click inside my league client. I'm sitting here watching the game unfold as I'm unable to do ANYTHING.

It's not like the game is frozen or anything... I simply cannot click inside of it. I know nothing is going to happen, my team is going to lose, blame me, which is of course partly my fault, but there's going to be nothing done about this. I'm very sad as I felt as I was about to go 8-2 in my placements. Honestly, doesn't matter too much to me, as it doesn't mean much, but losing like this is a very frustrating experience.

The WORST part is that my team could not remake the game even though I had not moved an inch since the game started. Remake option should be available if a person has not moved even if for whatever reason they are still there, but just not paying attention. They have 3 minutes to come back and if they fail to do so, then that's negligence on them. I'm sad because I made my team lose, but at the same time it isn't even my fault.

Riot, please fix your spaghetti code. It's even worse when I have to freaking accept this loss and realize nothing will be done about it... what a sad day it is.

As it's also past 8minutes into the game, I have 0 intentions of playing it out, because I already know I'm going to lose even if we win. So Riot, good job on that front. You've not only had spaghetti infect me in a negative impact, you also enabled a system where if I d/c that has nothing to do with me already gives me the mindset to NOT reconnect to the game and attempt to win.

Very sorry to my team for this terrible day and game. I apologize.

8 Comments

Chermorg2 votes

This is most likely an issue with your windows settings, not with the client. Virtually everyone else can alt tab, thus if a repair didn't fix it, you may need to change some windows settings. Id recommend filing a support ticket so they can maybe give you some more exact information.

TS Media1 votes

Any suggestion on the windows setting? I didn't change anything and I played 6 games in a row with generally no problem. But for whatever reason, on the 7th game (mind you I've been alt tabbing the ENTIRETY of all games) the game suddenly stops working? And I guess I'll swing in a support ticket too... cause it still hasn't been fixed.

Chermorg1 votes

It could be any number of issues with windows or other windows programs that are conflicting with League taking back control of the screen when alt-tabbing back into fullscreen. This is one reason I play any game possible on borderless - it avoids the issues at the risk of having popups over it (but i disable all of those I can for notifs/etc so they don't bother me frequently).


As a moderator note, I'm going to refer you to the Help and Support boards for this, and/or a Support ticket - we simply can't really help you here and gameplay isn't really the proper board. Your best option is a support ticket - it'll take longer to respond but it'll be more personalized help once they do.

Warios1 votes

Maybe next time take a min to force the client closed and restart, maybe get back in time to make a difference.

Wont help this game. but if it happens in the future might work.

TS Media1 votes

Do you think I just sat here and didn't do that? I did all of that. I restarted my client and everything and nothing worked. I'm here repairing my client at the moment. If that doesn't work, I'll have to try redownloading the game. The dumbest part is I literally JUST played a game a few minutes before hoping into a next one and all of a sudden this shit happens? It's ridiculous and unacceptable.

Warios1 votes

Actually I don't know what you did, or didn't do, I just offered a suggestion for the next time if it happens. Your post says you sat there watching the game unfold.

Just trying to be helpful, because from just reading a post, no idea how computer savvy someone might be, and sometimes the simplest idea is passed over.

TS Media1 votes

Fair enough. I'm just frustrated cause now it's become a full blown issue and I currently can't even play league atm. And this seems to be the only game affect by it atm.

TS Media1 votes

Update: Game has ended, and being cautious, I just hoped into a practice game to see if the problem persists. After repairing client the problem still persists.... don't know how to fix this but about to go tweak around for a bit.

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