As is common for a free-to-play game with paid additional content, League of Legends, from the developer Riot Games, settles for comparably low hardware requirements. In regard to graphics, only graphics cards that are on par with an Nvidia GeForce 8800 or an AMD Radeon 5670 are required. This means hardware that came on the market around 10 years ago along with the release of League of Legends.



Consequently, not much has changed since then; even the engine has basically remained the same. This is because a game that reached the 100-million-player mark in 2016 must be able to run smoothly and without issues on all possible platforms, from Windows XP with DirectX 9 all the way up to Windows 10 and DirectX 12. Especially in Asian countries, which make up a large part of the market of this game genre, and where numerous players resort to Internet cafes, a comprehensive graphics update would not be possible, even when the opinion that the graphics in League of Legends look outdated, and that the engine needs an overhaul is becoming increasingly popular in European forums and communities.