League of Legends runs poorly on a brand new laptop?

[deadken]

My Girlfriend bought her son a new laptop for Christmas. I helped her spec it out and we ended up getting a HP 17z with a AMD 810 8700P CPU, M360 2GB Video card, 8 GB of Ram, 17" 1080P screen, and Win10. I was quite surprised to hear that he has a problem running League of Legends on it (my son says LoL should could run on a toaster). Sure enough, he is having issues when he finishes a game and exits a round, alt tabs in or out of a game, and when he exits the game. My son went over it with him and installed a newer video driver, un-installed and re-installed the game, etc... I searched the LoL website and googled the problem, but couldn't find any recent results or any results that fixed the problem. Does anyone here play the game or have any suggestions on what I should look at next? He is going back to college next week and I'd like to have this resolved before he leaves if I can.


Thanks in advance for any helpful or humorous suggestions!

BTW: When we spec'd out the laptop, we came close to maxing her budget. So, we chose 'only' 8GB of ram (but, it is one stick, so we can always add another as necessary), and we got a 'standard' HD. Unfortunately a Solid State HD was way over budget. I don't imagine either of these 'helping'. But, I don't really think they should cause these problems.

 

[Jax Omen]

what you're describing aren't issues running the game (poor framerate, crashes during games, etc would be issues running the game) but rather issues with the pre/post game client. EVERYONE has troubles with it, League of Legends has a legendarily bad client. It doesn't play well with Win10, among MANY other problems.

Supposedly they are reworking it this year. I'll believe it when I see it.

In the meantime, as long as it works fine in-game (and it should), he should be fine. Tell him to play Windowed Borderless mode so alt-tabbing doesn't break things.

 

[deadken]

Thank you so much for your quick reply! It clears a lot of things up. I feel a lot better and will pass the information along.

Unfortunately, I neglected to mention that he does have problems as well while playing the game. I recall that it lags if he moves an item in his inventory and also when he moves the camera to a different point (far away) on the map. I should mention that my son, in an effort to make sure he wasn't experiencing a framerate issue, turned down the video settings and found that the same lagging problems remained (inventory and camera).

I completely realize that this is a 'free' game and that there probably aren't that many reasons to keep it up with decent well-written updates / revisions. So any short-term ideas for solutions is appreciated.

Again, thanks!