0xc00000be error when trying to launch League of Legends

So I got a new laptop at work, and then tried to run League from it.  I got an error saying "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00000be)". This is an article on how to fix that.

Symtoms: When trying to go into a game, it fails quoting "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00000be)".  You can get into the "Play" interface, but you can't actually start a game.

Reason: There is a network path that is not accessible in your "Path" environment variable.  This will be because you are not connected to the network when you are trying to run LOL.

Fix: Move C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32 earlier in your path.

How To (windows 7):

• Press the Start button then copy and paste this into the search bar:
• %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables 
• Under system variables find "Path"
• Click Edit
• Find "C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32;" and move it to the first entry of your path

Lastly, you have to make sure that d3dx9_39.dll is in your Windows or Windows\system32 folder.  Not sure why, but mine didn't work via \System32 so I moved it directly into Windows and it worked fine.

Players I pardon in Tribunal #4

Djinncito - Credit to the community.  Despite lots of anger around you you kept cool, unbelievable you got reported.

1/15 again... Bad. :(  But again we are fixing the community.

Players I pardon in Tribunal #3

Acidz - 5 games against you!  In a way it counted in your favour.  In 5 games you said noob once. You weren't the strongest player, but I believe you are a credit to the community and don't deserve a punish.

1 pardon in 15... Oh well, we are making the community a better place.

Players I pardon in Tribunal #2

I am going to have a list of player's I've pardoned in League of Legends Tribunal.  Know this.  If you get banned and I pardoned you, you are truly unfortunate.  I tend to punish lots of stuff.  "easy" "noobs" etc.  If you said that, you'd better have handled the rest of the team for the rest of the game(s) with lots of respect otherwise you're punished.  Anyway, so Naming and Shaming is illegal, that is why I am listing here summoner names from EU West, that come up in tribunal, that I pardon, not punish.  I will not publish a name that I punished as this is against the tribunal rules.


MrPatriarche It was tight, but your swearing etc. was not directed at anyone.  I could see you got angry, but you kept it in place well. Pardon from me.


7wtf8wtf9 Another tight one, but it seems you did call for help.  Try to swear less, "fat kids that dont have friends irl have to flame others in online games" Thankfully you stated it "generically".  You are so close to punish, it's not even funny, but I'll call pardon.


TGoG Hyperion Benefit of the doubt... You only had 2 games, and were borderline in both.  Try to get your frustration levels down when you are losing your lane.


justperfect You seem to have a knack for pissing your teammates off.  You're not outright rude, but people report you when they want someone to blame. Try to encourage the team more, and respect each others' wishes.  


I accidentally pressed pardon on another guy.  I meant to punish him :-(. 

Players I pardon in Tribunal

I am going to have a list of player's I've pardoned in League of Legends Tribunal.  Know this.  If you get banned and I pardoned you, you are truly unfortunate.  I tend to punish lots of stuff.  "easy" "noobs" etc.  If you said that, you'd better have handled the rest of the team for the rest of the game(s) with lots of respect otherwise you're punished.  Anyway, so Naming and Shaming is illegal, that is why I am listing here summoner names from EU West, that come up in tribunal, that I pardon, not punish.  I will not publish a name that I punished as this is against the tribunal rules.


Majkutson close call, but you survived.  2nd Jungler pick is not great, but not bannable IMO. I would suggest you stay away from ranked/draft until you have full set of runes and can play Tank, AP carry, AD carry, Support and Jungler.

Lol... I had like 4 pardons today... but only started with this dude.  Anyway, hoping for this to become a regular thing... Though if I get the game running from here... probably less so. :D

Trying to get LOL to run from behind firewall, and copy

Right, so this is my first post in a series in the hope to get LOL (League of Legends) to run from a non-administrator, behind a firewall PC.

Ok, so bandwidth is a concern, as I don't want to raise too many concerns.  I copied LOL from my home PC folder and extracted some registry keys I thought might be appropriate, though RIOT seems not to be too dependent on the registry (good boys! I prefer it this way).  This is to reduce the bandwidth of actually downloading and patching the game.

Step one, run it... Oops... Firewall blocks it.  It complains of no HTTP access.  Ok, so I have access to a 3rd party external PC that I can tunnel through, but experience tells me I will not have sufficient speed through there to have a decent speed.  So I'll go via my own phone or 3g modem.

To do this I had to try to get my phone to tether (android Samsung Galaxy S+ --- it is remarkably hard to tether USB... strange anyway)...  For this I had to download the USB drivers, which I got here.

I disconnected the LAN connection (This ensures that I use the correct connection) Obviously this breaks all LAN stuff like mapped network drives etc. Next I check that the new connection is working... For this I just ping www.google.com from a command shell.  (Success, and pretty low pings too! 55ms average).

Then I run it...  (I run the lol.launcher.exe.)

It complains could not start as d3dx9_39.dll was not found... :-(((  Ok, Dx9 is 95mb... Will have to find out from someone if we already have that somewhere, as I don't want to download 95mb from here (or my phone)...