For those who don’t know, League of Legends is a massively online battle arena video game developed and published by the American developer Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and macOS. The game is so insanely popular, that in 2019 it had an average of 33 million monthly players.
Therefore, not getting the game working on your Mac even though you have the needed configuration is truly frustrating. This is a problem that plenty of Mac owners are dealing with. Your friends, classmates and maybe even your foes want to compete with you in League of Legends, so you should solve the problem ASAP.
Remove Lockfile
This is a simple measure that can do the trick for you and get League of Legends running. Just follow the steps below on your Mac:
- Head to Finder > Applications.
- Right-click on ‘League of Legends’.
- Click ‘Show package contents’.
- Click on the ‘League of Legends’ folder.
- Find the “lockfile” file and delete it.
- Relaunch League of Legends.
Run in RiotMacContainer
This measure can also get your favorite game working. All you have to do is follow these steps:
- Go for ‘Finder’ on your Mac.
- Find and right-click ‘League of Legends’.
- Find the ‘Show package contents’ option and select it.
- Select ‘macOS’.
- Click ‘RiotMacContainer’
- Close your game.
Check your internet connection
You obviously can’t play an online game if your internet connection is low or nonexisting at all. Therefore, check your connection, troubleshoot your Wi-Fi and restart your device to see if the problem is gone. The connection has to be stable, and in the case of not being a connection at all, it’s normal that the game won’t start at all.
Hopefully, these measures will get your League of Legends game working nice and smooth. Let us know in a comment below what were your experiences while trying the above-mentioned methods.
