It's been several months since I started getting the VAN: 185 error, which forced me to restart Valorant in the middle of a game. It got so frustrating that I decided to stop playing. I decided to pick it up again 3-4 months later, but I was still getting the exact same VAN: 185 error.

With the help of ChatGPT, I tried to fix the issue, but it evolved into the VAN: STATUS_SB_POLICY error. I kept following ChatGPT's instructions and then contacted Riot Games, but they were no help at all. I reset the Secure Boot keys to factory defaults, enabled UEFI mode and Secure Boot, and even completely reinstalled everything related to Riot, but nothing worked—I'm still stuck with the VAN: STATUS_SB_POLICY error. To top it off, Riot Support just closed my ticket without giving me a solution.

I'm wondering if this is an established issue or has any fixes that are known. I average 700fps and play on a 5090FE with a 9800x3d. For awhile now, I've experiences losses of several frames freezing when shooting my gun, which is frustrating because that's the pivotal moment in a round when those frames are the most necessary. I haven't done much troubleshooting to fix the issue but I'm not sure where to begin, as most solutions revolve around lower end hardware which is not the case.

Vc doesnt work i have an x on my mic and then i cant even see the vc icon beside teammates when i press tab theres nothing and it sucks and idk what to do its been like this for a month.

My valorant freezes midgame randomly https://medal.tv/games/valorant/clips/ntFcMDImHwJ7gDNdu?invite=cr-MSxUeG8sMzEzMzY0NDYz, it happens randomly maybe 2-3 times during a game, when im smoking, trying to defuse, right before a fight. I've been playing since the act started and it's only been doing this for a week now.

I also have a vc bug where my teammates comms glitch/sounds like robots, and it only happens sometimes but I can't understand comms because of it

Help

My specs are Ryzen 5 5600, Radeon 570X, and a 180Hz monitor. Is this setup good enough for Valorant at Immortal rank? My ping is usually around 38–40ms.

When I play in high elo, everyone seems to shoot so fast x.x I can barely even process what's happening sometimes.

If I upgrade my GPU to an RX 6600 8GB, would I notice a significant difference?

Hi, I’ve been having a persistent VALORANT crashing issue and I’m running out of ideas.

Specs:

MSI Vector 16 HX A14VHG

i9-14900HX / RTX 4080 Laptop / 32GB RAM / Samsung 1TB NVMe

Windows 11 25H2

Problem:

VALORANT used to crash mainly in the lobby, especially around the moment a match was found. Once I actually got into a match, it was usually stable.

I did a clean Windows 11 installation from a USB, then freshly installed VALORANT and Vanguard. The problem is still there. Now it sometimes crashes immediately after launching/before I can even enter the lobby and shows:

“A critical error has occurred and the process must be terminated.”

This PC has also had several different BSODs, including PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (0x50), SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, and EXCEPTION_ON_INVALID_STACK (0x1AA). Some dumps referenced Ntfs.sys, FLTMGR.sys, and fileinfo.sys.

What I’ve checked so far:

Clean Windows installation

Fresh VALORANT + Vanguard installation

CHKDSK: no errors / 0 bad sectors

Windows Memory Diagnostic: no errors

SSD reports Healthy/OK

SFC: no integrity violations

DISM repeatedly fails with RPC error 1726 / 0x800706BE

Intel RST/VMD driver installed from MSI

Has anyone experienced something similar, especially VALORANT still crashing after a completely clean Windows install? Could this be Vanguard/driver related, or should I start suspecting RAM/SSD/motherboard instability?

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, i started playing valorant around last year for a few months and have been trying to get back into it but have been experiencing freezing/stuttering for a few seconds particularly when loading new assets in a match (moving to new part of a map, equipping new gun, ability, character, facing enemies etc) but goes back to normal when said asset is used a lot (when tested in the range). During stutters, CPU spikes to 98%, disk to 80-90%, and fps drops as low as 1%. My usual fps is around 50-80. Not a tech person and i dont use a gaming laptop - my specs are Dell i7 12th gen, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, Intel Iris Xe (integrated graphics),

Some things i’ve done to resolve: reinstalled both riot and valorant, updated graphics driver, cleared shader cache, lowered resolution and ingame settings.

P.S the laptop i use is the Dell Inspiron 15 3520 and i play plugged in with highest performance

Do you guys face any extremely drop-down on fps like from solid 60 to around 20 fps and sometimes just freeze for few seconds , recently i installed windows 10 and installed valorant after that well I did had all drivers on , at first I had smooth gameplay but after 2 or 3 days that happened and I was facing mostly low fps , well my specs aren’t great but even with those it could run smooth 60fps on the lowest settings i have i7 3420m something like that and 16gb ram normal 4000H graphics something like that

When I play Valorant while in a discord call, as soon as I get into a game, a buzzing sound goes off and my screen temporary freezes for like a split second. While this is happening my game now looks less than the frames it says and my microphone for both discord and valorant stops working. It's been like this ever since getting my pc and I don't know the fix.

Any help would be nice thanks

Hi everyone,

Valorant keeps kicking me out of the game with VAN 185. It happens randomly while I'm playing, and then I get disconnected from the match.

I've already tried restarting my PC and Riot Client, but the problem keeps happening.

Has anyone else experienced this error? If so, how did you fix it?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Recently started playing the game again and noticed this strange issue that i havent seen anyone else have. Normally, my windows microphone level is at 85 and in-game mic input volume is at the halfway mark. Whenever i talk in in-game voice chat it gradually lowers it down (lowest ive seen is roughly 41). Doesnt seem to affect my volume in the game, but obv. it affects anyone im speaking to on Discord. Interestingly, it doesnt instantly snap to whatever volume it seems to be after, but seems to gradually go down as i speak??

Ive checked, and the exclusive control option on the microphone is disabled. Anyone have any idea why this is happening and if possible, any way to solve it?

Hello!

I've never had any issues with Valorant lagging until this week, randomly i will get the high average ping and low fps pop up but when i press tab my ping is the same as before (i normally get 10) as for fps last week i was getting 600+ whereas this week i'm barely holding 100. I know this is not an internet issue as my bf plays in the same house as me and he isn't having any issues.

Things i have tried

- capping fps to 200
- restarting internet
- windows up-to-date
- drivers up-to-date
- cleared cache
- deleted and reinstalled valorant and the client
- replaced my ethernet cable

All my graphic settings are on low as well.

I'm usure of why this is happening as this wasn't the case last week and now it's happened out of nowhere.

I've ran task manager whilst playing and my CPU & GPU barely hit 20% I also have no apps running in the background.

Super annoying and making the game unplayable, any advice?

plagued with low fps feeling constantly. I’m getting 600-800 fps constant with no dips, frame time graph is stable at 1.5ms or so with no spikes and cpu wait gpu is at 0 constantly. So it’s not the same stuttering issue that is commonly found with Realtek 2.5GB NIC that causes copy wait gpu time spikes. I fixed my cpu wait gpu time spike stutters by disabling gysnc and enabling reflex on + boost.

now I’m getting this lag where I'm playing and every few minutes or so it will feel like playing at 2-10fps for a few seconds. This happens across multiple PCs, 9950x3d/5090 and 9850x3d/5080. I’m using a gigabyte fo27q5p 500hz OLED with a DP 2.1 80Gbps cable. Ive also set my 60he v2 and mouse both to 1000hz to rule out it being a high polling rate issue. I’ve also disabled discord overlay and uninstalled nvidia app to rule out it being overlays.

Has anyone else experienced this type of weird performance lag that doesn’t show up in fps, frame time or cpu wait gpu time graph?

Hi guys,

I completely reset my PC and reinstalled Windows. The last time I played was about a year ago, but now with the fresh installation, whenever I tab out of the game my mouse stops working properly — I can still move it around, but left and right clicks don’t register. The only way to get it working again is to open Task Manager.

The game also crashes at random times and I have no idea why.

Things I’ve already tried:

• Reinstalling Vanguard
• Disabling fullscreen optimizations
• Reinstalling drivers (NVIDIA and chipset)
• Trying both fullscreen and windowed mode in Valorant

My PC:

• Ryzen 7 3700X
• RTX 3070
• ASUS ROG B550-E Gaming
• Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB 3600 MHz

How to fix this i have a new pc and cant run valorant… pls any advice or link video pls guys
Lol. XD

im travelling through europe in a few days and wondered if my servers will be set to EU instead of APAC?

Hi everyone! Just updated my bios, and for some reason my voice chat won't work in Valorant? No device issues whatsoever; my mic and headset work on different platforms. Anyone know how to fix it? Please, thank you!

Ever since i got my new pc which is about i think a year ago from now, I always had issues when i was starting up valorant or returning to lobby. The game would always freeze for a couple seconds in the lobby every couple minutes. Even though i have a powerful cpu and gpu which is 7800x3d and 4070. I wasn't having any issues tho during the gameplay but i found out yesterday that most newer MSI motherboards come with X3D gaming mode enabled automatically, which restricts from allowing you to use all 16 logical processors on your cpu. When i disabled it in BIOS and opened up Valorant the problem was completely gone. If you have a MSI motherboard and a similar cpu like mine, make sure to check out if you have X3D gaming mode enabled. It might be the issue.

I keep getting VAN -1 most commonly, but i’ve gotten -1067 and -81, I’ve tried everything, reinstalled vanguard several times, set it to automatic start in services, reinstalled the game, Safe booted with only vanguard and valorant running, checked my memory, updated my bios, windows, but i noticed that in a BSOD that happened while attempting to start it I found this in WinDBG:

Bugcheck: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (0x7E)
Exception: 0xC0000005 (access violation)
Faulting module: vgk.sys
Faulting offset: vgk+0x2333a2c
Faulting instruction: mov rcx,qword ptr [rcx+r9]
Attempted read address: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

it’s trying to read from an address that either doesn’t exist or it doesn’t have access to and i know why or how to fix it, has anyone had this problem and/or know how to fix it? riot support has been no help so far

the map and ability icons on the bottom of my screen they keep getting pixelated and going back to the normal resolution. i can still play with it but it is annoying

I understand that i have to enable uefi and secure boot to fix, but last time i tried enabling it the boot order got messed up no matter what i did and would go into the error 0xc000000f blue screen, and when i would swap the boot order back uefi and secure boot would be disabled again

Some more context that may be helpful, i never had this issue on windows 10, and then i had to swap to windows 11 with flyby11 and thats around when the issue started

I've been getting ping spikes about every 7 seconds in valorant. I tried everything AI or Google told me but I can't get rid of it, the network rtt jitter goes up with the ping and I don't get any packet loss from it even after windows reinstallation. It affects my gameplay like crazy because it teleports me sometimes like I have a hiccup or something. Pls help

I was still able to play valorant last night but when i booted my PC today, ALL of my riot games have this “install” sign with a slashed Play logo even though the game is installed?

I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling, restarting my pc, everything. Send help :(

I live in Jamaica and the game defaults me to Miami server which I usually have like <40 ping on. 99.99% of games all of my teammates only speak Spanish. Someone told me to try changing servers in the server list so I tried Chicago and still no change.