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Qandi

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Registered: 2013-05-02

Posts: 15

League of Legends Installation

I decided to try getting League on my box, but the PoL method didn't work right away, and the Chroot method seems a bit overkill(?).

However, this isn't another of those helpmedoitformeplease threads... Before i dive in to a potentially lengthy tinkering process, i would like to ask fellow Legends;

Which method do you prefer and works best for you? Which way do you see as the most solid solution to go about?

PS.i realize many probably has their own twist, so feel free to post your method:)

elken

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From: Emacs

Registered: 2013-10-17

Posts: 67

Re: League of Legends Installation

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/bo … ?t=1946188 is what I used back when I played it on Debian, I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to adopt the commands to Arch

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Vipermaseg

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From: Spain

Registered: 2008-12-12

Posts: 62

Re: League of Legends Installation

The tuto elken gave you is pretty old, you should follow the directions given in http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p … &iId=19141

If you dont want to use the script, which would lead you to compiling wine, you can use repo wine if you use the texture fix.
So just read the script and do smartly, step-by-step "almost" all it says (winetricks stuff, creating a wineprefix, etc). Also, you might want to check how to create a 32-bit wineprefix, it is explained in the ArchWiki's wine page.

Lastly, the chroot is not a "method", it is a workaround for a weird crash some people and I get with no apparent output as backtrace, but most people have been able to play normaly lately. You only have to do a Arch32 chroot if your game freezes after champion selection, but that would be using the LoL installation you already have from doing the above, so start by installing LoL using the vainilla installer and wine as described in winehq and Danilo Riffo's script.

EDIT1: I'm not very into breaking down things too much, but I'm feeling chatty today.
You can follow the guide elken gave you if you take into account the following:

-The installer has to be one of these three or it will crash (it doesn't matter really, you can change region once installed):
   http://l3cdn.riotgames.com/Installer/Si … aseEUW.exe (for EUW)
   http://l3cdn.riotgames.com/Installer/Si … seEUNE.exe (for EUNE)
   http://l3cdn.riotgames.com/Installer/Si … BaseNA.exe (for NA)

-You don't need wininet (you might if you wish to use older versions of wine)
-You don't need ie6 (if you end up using the chroot you might want to install ie8 to have some way of opening the links in the lobby, otherwise it is completely unnecesary)
-You MUSN'T install adobeair (LoL comes with its own build, the installation of adobeair has led to conflicts in the past)
-You MUST use WinXP, not Win7 (Win7 gave an enormous fps boost, but after certain LoL update it made the game flicker with ramdom lights, so WinXP is preferred now)
-You can run the game with "wine lol.launcher.exe" but the "WINEDEBUG=+ntdll wine "rads_user_kernel.exe" run lol_laun...etc" crap seems to be broken now, so stick the first one.

Here is a link to the tool to aply the icon fix: https://github.com/A-Metaphysical-Drama/LoL-Linux-Tools
And finally if you are going to use the icon fix (otherwise you have to recompile wine with the mipmap patch mentioned in winehq), Wine 1.6 works best. 1.7.*, as I explained in the other thread, has a performance boost (at least for NVidias, I believe) but bugs the shop icons for all the maps that are not the Summoner's Rift.

Hope it helps, have a nice day.

EDIT2: And I finally quote myself. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1343178
Basically chroot workaround is not necessary, you only have to edit you /etc/hosts file to make your real hostname to point to your own computer. So forget about chroot.

Last edited by Vipermaseg (2013-10-30 01:11:22)