In the tutorial we are going to fix the League of Legends "We have detected a problem with your installation" problem. In this tutorial, we will be using 3 ways to solve the error that many gamers face as a League of Legends problem with the installation.
How many people play League of Legends?
Talking about the popularity of the game, League of Legends retains around 160 million active monthly users in 2024. League of Legends is quite popular in countries of Southeast Asia like The Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
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| How to Fix Sorry We Detected a Problem With Your Installation Error in League of Legends. Credit: League of Legends |
A quick way to fix "We Detected a Problem With Your Installation" in League of Legends
If your game crashes after Champ selects and displays this error, locate League of Legends.exe (or its desktop shortcut), right-click to open Properties, pick the Compatibility tab, and ensure that the "Run this program in compatibility mode" checkbox is unchecked. After that, restart your computer and try to join a custom match to see whether it's functioning. If not, please contact League of Legends via Player Support OR follow a few more tricks that may help you to fix this error.
We have got 3 solutions for this error they are:
- Change League's compatibility settings
- Use Hextech Repair Tool
- Reset League without deleting
1. Change League's compatibility settings
The first solution for Sorry We Detected a Problem With Your Installation is to change League's compatibility settings. Before doing this, make sure the game is completely closed.
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| How to change League of Legends compatibility settings. Credit: League of Legends |
How to change League of Legends compatibility settings?
Steps to change League of Legends compatibility settings:
Step 1: Right-click on League and click Open file location.
Step 2: Click on Riot Games from the top and open the League's folder.
Step 3: Double-click on the Game folder.
Step 5: Right-click on League and open Properties.
Step 6: Click on Compatibility and tick Run this program in compatibility mode.
Step 7: Select Windows 8. If you already have this ticked, untick it.
Step 8: Tick disable fullscreen optimizations and click Apply.
Step 9: Click OK and close this tab.
Now you can check if the error is solved or not. If the problem is not solved, we will move on to the second solution.
2. Use Hextech Repair Tool
The second solution for (Sorry We Detected a Problem With Your Installation) is to use the Hextech Repair Tool.
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| Hextech Repair Tool. Credit: League of Legends |
This program is a kind of Riot's troubleshooter program, and we can use it to solve our problems.
To download the program, we open our browser and download the Hextech Repair Tool from Riot's website.
After downloading the program, we open it and then click Run. After the program opens, we tick Force Repatch and Reinstall from the Game section. There is no harm in choosing reinstall here, our game will not be reinstalled.
We press Start and start the repair process. Here you may get an Install Path Not Found error. If we get this error, we click OK.
After doing this, what we need to do is select the LeagueClient.exe file inside the League folder. We select the file and click Open. The repair process is complete.
Now you can open League and check if the problem is solved or not. If the problem is not solved, we will move on to the last solution.
3. Reset League without deleting
The last solution for "Sorry We Detected a Problem With Your Installation" is to reset League without deleting it.
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| How to reset League of Legends without deleting. Credit: League of Legends |
How to reset League of Legends without deleting it?
Reset League of Legends without deleting it in 5 easy steps:
Step 1: Right-click on League and click Open file location.
Step 2: Click on Riot Games from the top and rename the League of Legends folder.
Note: You don't need to change much, you can add a letter.
Step 3: Close this tab and open League. Here the Install option appears because it cannot find the file location of the game. Click on Install and then click already installed.
Step 4: Double-click on the League folder we changed.
This is important, if you only select it, you will reinstall the game. We need to open the renamed folder so that it can verify the files.
Step 5: After opening the folder, click OK. The process here is not downloading the files again but verifying them. After the verification is done, you can click Play and check if the problem is solved or not.
We have come to the end of the tutorial. I hope one of these solutions fixes your problem.
