PSA: If your havin problems with the new SR skin, here are some tips
Anything running on the background may be slowing down your computer.
Besides your internet connection, there are some other things that could definitely be lowering the performance of your rig in-game and causing problems.
Make sure to add your game to your anti-virus exclusion list (or disable your anti-virus if you like livin on the edge), give LOL administrative privileges, and also try to close out of things running in the background.
Also, here are a few tips that may help you out in game.
I also recommend you don't make these adjustments in the middle of a game, using the practice tool may help you out here.
Disable the client
Also, another thing that may boost your performance is to shutdown the client in-game. This will give you a major boost to your fps at the cost of having it load really, really slowly at the end of a match.
Heres how to do it:
https://i.imgur.com/kXkjda8.png
Anyway, you may not get the chance to flame your Trolling/Feeding teammates at the end of the match, but at least your game will be runnin like butter.
Another thing you may do is optimize the game, in-game.
https://i.imgur.com/6Rz9Mv9.png
Hiding eye candy, and lowering the quality of effects and the environment will be the biggest boosts to fps. Generally, "Effects Quality" have a huge effect on performance and can lead to lag spikes when the fights get hot and heavy. Make sure this is optimized to your liking and for the power of your computer build. (generally, medium is a good balance between performance and quality for both the environment and effects quality).
Another thing you may look at is if you are using anti-aisling and vertical sync.
https://i.imgur.com/zKBYxFg.png
Vertical sync is good for when you have alot of screen tearing. At the cost of performance, it may smooth out the quality of your game.
As for Anti-aisling, this is generally a performance hog in every-game (not just League) and you should def make sure this is disabled if you want to play with the snowdown map.
Lastly, if nothing works you can always disable the Snowdown SR Map
https://i.imgur.com/Y007aiU.png
You have the option of disabling it if you either don't like it or it's causing too many problems for you. However, please go through what I have just talked about if you are genuinely on the fence about this. The new map is definitely enjoyable, and it is definitely worth your time to try to make it work.
We have been asking Riot to do SR map skins for a long time now and they finally delivered on that promise. If you aren't optimizing your computer and your game, this could be the problem instead of the map.
So please remember, we are the community and we can do better than littering the Boards with Salt without actually troubleshooting the problem for ourselves.
And if this helped you at all, feel free to up-vote and bump/post so others can benefit.
Anyway, GL everyone and Happy Holidays.
[sg-poppy]