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Need help. Black screen after champion select. Pvp. Patcher won't start

 
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firedragonxx9832 ?? Junior Member
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07-27-2012

Hi guys,

I recently completed a system restore on Windows 7 to get rid of some stuff, and since then I have been having problems with League.

At first, the League of Legends logo would come up but the launcher would fail and nothing else would start. I fixed this by deleting the lol launcher folder and trying it again, after which it worked.

I then had the league screen disappear after I clicked the play button, resulting in me hunting through the forums and deleting more folders and regaining them through an hour of updates. However now, when I try to start a game, I go through the champion select without a problem but get a black rectangle after the champion choosing closes. I've gotten a couple of leaves from this and it pisses me off.

I tried looking through the forums but nothing helpful was found. I'm not sure what to do. I've scanned my files in my C: folder and stuff, which took 5 hours, yet the problem still remains. I get the same problem if I try to spectate or play custom games, which helps me check if the problem is fixed without getting leaves :P.

I was wondering whether I could have any help with fixing this, either from people that have had the same problem or riot customer support people. I enjoy this game a lot and want to play it well. I can play it on my laptop right now, since it's my desktop that's having the problems, but it's not as fun nor as easy since I lack a good mouse and my laptop screen and resolution aren't good enough for me to enjoy myself. I really hope somebody helps me and I can play this game well again.

I don't really understand that much about firewalls and ports, so I'm sort of wondering if the problem may be related to that. I hope I get help.

-Thank You in Advance.

 
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TheEnigmaBlade ?? Senior Member
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07-27-2012

When you open the the launcher and before you press Play, click on the gear icon in the upper right and then on "Repair installation". If that doesn't work, the best solution would be to reinstall the game.

Also for future notice, deleting folders to fix a problem is not usually a good idea.

 
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firedragonxx9832 ?? Junior Member
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07-27-2012

The deleting folders was reccomended by riot support people on another forum and it worked for me. I guess I'll go and try the repairing. I kind of think that there is something else wrong though.

Thank You!

 
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AznLJ ?? Junior Member
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07-31-2012

Might i ask if it worked for you?

 
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robojezas2 ?? Junior Member
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08-03-2012

i have the same problem repairing doesn't work im about to re-install

 
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Radbeard ?? Senior Member
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09-03-2012

same problem tried reinstalling no luck.

trying the repair installation... but it didn't finish the repair. said unspecified error has occured. I sent logs and am tinkering