Slow client and low FPS for seemingly no reason

notkai·9/7/2019, 9:31:04 PM·1 votes·1,915 views

About a week ago, I tried opening League of Legends and found that while the top and side bars of the client loaded, the body remained black. All of the "buttons" in the top bar (play, collection, profile, etc) failed to perform the normal sound effect/animation when I hovered over them with my cursor, and each one took about four seconds to actually load into the client. Four seconds isn't a lot of time, but it's frustrating when I'm used to it opening instantly. Just getting into a draft queue felt like it took ages. Once I was in-game, my FPS (which is normally a nice playable 60) was hovering between 15 and 20 the whole time. It was frustrating, especially when all my settings were turned down to enhance performance. I've not recently done anything to my computer that would result in such low performance, and all the steps I've taken have done nothing. Obviously the first thing I did was uninstall/reinstall, which actually made the issue worse. I then went into my device manager and updated my graphics card. No change. I went into the League files and allowed the program to run itself in an administrative state, in case my firewall was blocking any necessary patch files. No change. I even disabled the in-game sounds, which I used to do to make the game work when I had a shitty computer. No change. I'm wondering what the next step should be, and if anyone else is having this issue. My computer specifications are: Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 5500 Memory: 8 GB

5 Comments

5050BS9/7/2019, 9:52:52 PM2 votes

The client is complete trash and riot wont drop flash for some reason.

JuiceBoxP9/7/2019, 10:28:02 PM2 votes

You probably have game bar background screen recording enabled in the windows settings. Turn off background recording and your game should run a lot better. It's turned on by default in windows 10 for some reason

notkai9/9/2019, 11:51:00 PM1 votes

Alright. I've done a few other things, including fiddling with my computer's battery to boost performance, using Task Manager to allocate more computer resources to LoL, and downloading the Hextech Repair Tool. The HRT page kind of plugged it as some fix-all program, but really, it didn't do much of anything. Just generated a file for me to shove at some poor employee. It did, however, say that it could not find the file path to the League client .exe file on my computer. I found this strange, since every single time I've downloaded LoL, I use the location generated by the installer (C:\Riot Games\League of Legends).

I'm hesitant to submit these HRT files in a ticket because my prior two bug reports have gone unaddressed. I feel like it will just end up sending me generated no-reply emails saying that my issue is being processed in a queue or something.

Anyway, I've uninstalled and I'm installing again. If I still get a shitty FPS, I can only assume it's the client and not me, because I've run out of ideas.