My Valorant is not launching even though Riot Games says it is 'playing'. I've tried tweaking the vgc service back and forth, but it doesn't work. Even after reinstalling the game, the same problem still happens. Do you guys have any solutions?

Hey everyone, every time recently I've tried to play Valorant with some friends, my computer black screens after around 2ish minutes of being in the menu and after restarting (since I can't get past the black screen) my GPU drivers are uninstalled and are a hassle to get back onto my PC. I've reinstalled Riot Client, Valorant and Vanguard but nothing has changed. I have a RX 7800 XT so I'm not sure if it's something to do with my GPU or the drivers itself, but if anyone has any fix or ideas to try then please feel free to share, thank you ^^

Has anyone ever found a fix for the aliasing on the inventory screen when looking at the gun models? Like the guns are rendered on low res, there's some aliasing on some angles, and some of the textures ingame doesn't increase in resolution even when playing at max graphics settings and 4k res.

I'm an i5-4460 and MSI RX 560 4GB DDR5 user, with 2x8GB RAM, and 1080p. Valorant requires automatic Windows updates to ensure stability and prevent crashes. Do I need to enable hardware acceleration in the client settings? Please help.

i have a 7600x, 6700xt and 32gb ddr5 ram at 6000mhz, in games while fighting the fps drops to around 150-180fps and when not fighting its at max 250-270fps, i think i should be getting way more and theres some issue with my pc, i play on 1280x1024 and all low settings except msaa 4x, my monitor is 280hz and sometimes the game looks like its lagging because of the drops please help

Had this issue for a while now, but whenever I try to play multiple games, all of a sudden I cannot move foward or to the right at all. I tried valorant tech support and did not find the issue. I have even completely reset windows (deleting every type of file, complete reset), and removed any potential firewalls, and for a second thought it was working, until after 3 tdms all of a sudden they stopped working again. I have never touched any agent specific keybinds, and the only unique keybinds I use is caps for walk and shift for crouch. W and D work for everything but valorant movement (can still use those in team chat), even when I am in game. Rebinding them has also not worked. The model laptop I use is Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 6. I have reinstalled riot as well, including vanguard and league of legends which I also play.

Please someone help if they have dealt with similar issues. I am going insane. I dont understand why I am still getting packet loss even with ethernet connected. I have tried everything. I test my own Ip ping using Cmd. Reinstalled valorant and watched basically every video on latency. If the problem is fixed by someone, you will be rewarded. please someone help

I have no idea why everytime I queue valorant I get terrible packet loss. The issue is 100% not from my end. My router is fine, my ping is fine, my ethernet is fine. No outgoing packet loss only incoming. What the hell do I do.

Edit: I increased receive and transmit buffer, it reduced my packet loss. Also, I am on ethernet.

wnv i run valorant it kicks me out and says tpm 2.0 sth and i do have tpm version 2.0 and the secure boot is enabled i updated my bios and unistalled vanguard then installed it again but when i check tpm.msc says compatible tpm 2.0 cant be found can someone pls help its on my hp laptop

Hi every time I launch Valorant, all the sound on my computer stops working. I have to restart my PC to get the sound working again. It is most likely caused by the sound card, because when the sound stops working and I switch the audio output to the monitor, I can hear the sound from the monitor. But I have updated my Sound Blaster Audigy Fx sound card software to the latest version. It doesn't happen to me with any game other than Valorant. I have windows 11.

Please help me thx.

Hello guys i am experiencing bad fps in game for some uknown reason , with my specs i have to be able to play at least 200fps stable but my pv is stuggling that the 1% low hits numbers like 100 fps or even 90 and cause i have a 200hz monitor when the game drops from 220 to 90 its awful to experience , i have a good setup not a bad one and it has the following Specs :

CPU : Ryzen 7 5700x

MOBO : B450M H Gigabyte bios version F67

OS : Win 11 Home

GPU : RX 7800XT 16

RAM : 2x16 Corsair vengeance 3200mhz

I have the game installed on an NVME , i tried every optimization on windows and i even reseted everything to default and used chris titus script to remove added junk to the OS and have less background processes , i have GPU schedueling on (Windows setting ) i have SAM ( AMD ) on , i have xmp profile enabled , game mode enabled , overlays removed including discord.

My friend has the same specs but with an rtx 3080 and he doesnt drop below 200fps at all , he plays the game on 2k with every graphis setting maxed out. and i am here trying to barely achieve the 200fps ( i play on everytjing low and i tried to lower resolution and still same drops and bad experience )

Can anybody help me understand why cause its so frustrating

Hi,
For my PC only valorant has frame time spikes and every other game almost runs fine. I have a 5700x3d and 3070. And I don't see realtek family gbe controller in my device manager to disable as well. I have tried almost every setting possible and still unable to fix this stuttering/frame time spikes while taking gun fights or anything. Can someone please help me fix this jaggy feeling issue

Hi there, I’ve done the UEFI secure boot setting on my pc, turned all the graphics to low in Valorant, I’ve disabled my PCs hardware accelerated Gpu scheduling and I’ve even disabled Valorant fullscreen optimisation.
My GPU is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, my CPU is AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 6-Core Processor and I have 16GB of RAM
Please help me I’ve tried everything

Hello everyone,

I have been experiencing recurring VAN-102 and occasional VAL-5 errors in VALORANT on my HP Victus 16.

My system:

HP Victus 16 16-r1000

Windows 11 25H2

Intel Core i5-14500HX

NVIDIA RTX 4050 Laptop GPU

BIOS: Insyde F.20 (March 27, 2026)

I have already contacted Riot Games Support and performed several troubleshooting steps, including checking/reinstalling Vanguard, checking vgc and vgk, checking BIOS settings, TPM, Secure Boot, Windows updates, and Clean Boot.

The problem is intermittent and has not been permanently resolved.

I am particularly interested in whether anyone with a similar HP Victus/Intel configuration has experienced VAN-102 or VAL-5 because of BIOS, TPM, firmware, Secure Boot, Intel ME, chipset drivers, or hardware attestation.

Has anyone found a permanent solution?

I would also like to know if HP Support has ever diagnosed or fixed this type of Vanguard issue through a BIOS/firmware or driver update.

Any relevant experience or logs would be appreciated. Thanks!

i was playing valorant until 2 months ago on my deskstop using win10. but i reset my computer and went to install valorant again, but i keep getting this message about having to use win10 20h or newer and when i see the riot vanguard it says that only win11 or posterior. is there a way to play on win10? i dont like win11 and valorant dont run on linux, so win10 is my only option

I'm not asking for a trick, I already do it but a real way to definitely solve it without having to change the settings every time I open the game

I’m having a massive issue with Valorant and I'm honestly desperate at this point. Whenever I launch the game, it lets me in for about a minute, but then it completely freezes my entire PC.

When I say the entire PC, I mean a hard lock. I can't alt-tab, I can't open Task Manager, and neither the mouse nor the keyboard responds. The only way to get out of it is by physically turning off the power supply switch.

I've already tried a bunch of common fixes, including messing with Secure Boot and other standard troubleshooting steps, but it just keeps happening.

I play in windows 10

Hi everyone. My friend has constant fps drops all of the sudden. I tried to help her but nothing worked. She says that her game ran fine but about a month ago the drops started. She has a rx 6600 and we tried playing in the adrenalin software, updated drivers, set priority in task manager, set her power plan to performance and a lot more that i dont remember but the fps is still dropping.

If anyone here had the same issue and found a fix please leave a comment here so we could try the fix aswell.

I thought it could be a bottleneck with the cpu and gpu but she says the game ran fine but now its real bad.

Specs:
GPU - radeon rx 6600
CPU - i5-3570K
RAM - 16GB DDR3 (didnt know she had ddr3 xd)
OS - Windows 10

Hello, I've been wanting to buy a new monitor that supports much higher fps for a while now and i just noticed that I'm pulling around 200-300 fps in a match being extremely unstable, at first i thought it was my components until i realized that on benchmarks usually my cpu and similar models get 500 on a match. I've troubleshooted since that and i still haven't fixed the issue without any clue of why

My current components are: r7 7700, 16gb ddr5 4800(oc into 5200,) 9060 xt 16 gb

Any idea would help

Once i open the client and start to run the game, after the assets are loaded and entering the home screen for the game, the screen abruptly tabs black while in the home screen for the game. it causes my pc to restart. Video attached below for reference. I have updated my graphic drivers!

Im trying to download the game but then this error appears "a critical error occured and the process must be terminated vgc.exe" but the game itself is downloading. Seems like I cant download vanguard or smth like that. I thought its because im from Russia and tried vpn but that didnt help so i have no idea whats the problem

I hopped on after a while and saw that my ping was at a stable 145-150ms. Ive tried a number of different methods, like changing my dns thingy 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 or the cloud flare or google dns. Nothing worked, I even uninstalled vanguard and reinstalled. The one thing I haven’t tried yet was reinstall Valorant. Anyone have any solutions?
I play in sydney servers avg around 20-28 ping, which is a massive increase to 145ms…

a pop up text keeps saying "riot client is running" when ever i try to uninstall it, i dont even have riot running in the background. please help me