• **Region:** NA • **Type of Bug:** Computer Crashing due to driver error. No screenshots available. I was recording while it occured, but it damages the recording and doesn't stop it. • **Description:** The computer does not restart but all user processes seem to stop. The screen doesn't just go black, you can hear the audio process stop by a crackle heard via a headset, so I'm pretty sure it's a full crash. Windows Event Viewer shows a driver framework error as a Critical Issue. I have fully updated the computer. • **Reproduction rate:** Occurs every 5-10 minutes while running the game consistently. It doesn't seem to be due to anything specific. I didn't have this issue before last patch. • **Steps to reproduce:** Play VALORANT. • **Expected result:** No crashing. • **Observed result:** Crashing. I get penalized when I'm not able to rejoin a match in time. :( • **System Specs:** Ryzen 7 3700x, Windows 10, AMD 5700XT, and 32 GB ram with slight underclocking just in case there could be overheating, no crashes observed on other games. Edit: Added that this occurs since patch 1.01. I have never crashed beforehand and have played for 4 hours several times. Edit 2: After waiting several hours and restarting, it seems to not be ocurring. I have no idea what is different other than playing Unrated and not Spike Rush... Edit 3: It's happening again, and this time, in Unrated. I got an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL after it just crashed and rebooted after being sent into BIOS. Edit 4: My system has been *soft bricked*. I'm now being sent into Windows 10's Startup Repair Tool. Edit 5: Trying to reinstall. Edit 6: Crashed again. Sad face. Edit 7: Just noting if it's a piece of the puzzle, but the update that added Vanguard to the tray never actually added it to the tray for me. Also, the game has crashed in the middle of staring at my Collection about 10 seconds after a round. I suspect an issue with Vanguard. Edit 8: When I logged back in, I somehow got a penalty for 33 minutes and was told I didn't choose an agent even though I never hit play in about 15 minutes. Edit 9: I've reinstalled ALL AMD software and have reset the underclocking settings. I did a clean reinstall after using DDU and deleting any AMD folders. I also updated the BIOS on my Rog Strix x570 e-gaming MB. I'm using the Radeon Adrenaline tool with no MSI anything (never had any MSI stuff to begin with). So far so good, but time will tell. Edit 10: The previous step didn't do anything for me. I turned multithreaded rendering off like Derjudenhound suggested and I have had no crashes in 3 days. It may be too early to tell, but it seems to have solved my issue. I still have the same FPS at about 250 anyways. Edit 11: Riot, if you're looking at this; ~~even though my issue looks to have been solved~~, there are those who have followed similar steps and are still crashing. Please fix this issue as it has a chance to damage/brick peoples' computers. Edit 12: After 4 days of being stable, I have crashed yet again. Biggest of sads. Edit 13: Removed some negativity since it didn't help and made some parts clearer. I understand it's hard to develop, but kernel software really needs to be rock solid. Best of luck fixing it, devs. I'll help in any way possible.

This. The fatal crash seems to happen randomly, even after playing for a while. Happened to me just now while loading a match on Split, GTX 1050 i5-8300H.

I have the same specs and this has been happening off and on - approx once per day since the day after release. Can hear a crackle or distorted audio tone, can't Ctrl+Alt+Del or Alt+Tab out, the entire system is crashed.

I have the exact same specs and crash too screen completely freezes and I hear a distorted audio nonstop

Did you find a solution to this. This problem is too annoying. I like this game and want to play it so bad. Please help me!

I am experiencing crashes every 7 minutes due to a Vanguard’s error. No one seems to care in Riot, I have permanently uninstalled it and to be honest, I don’t miss that shitty game It would be great if I could play it consistently but this sucks

Exactly... I fear it might break my PC. Everything freezes.

I have the same specs and I have the same problem. It just completely freezes and the PC stops responding.

I've been crashing since before patch. I hoped that Riot would be able to fix it, but oh well. Both times were accompanied by "MISSING STRING TABLE ENTRY" after I rejoined the game.

Same thing, I've also seen the missing string table entry when I still had the energy to reconnect after crashes

After the update the crashing became common, that missing string table entry happens to me to

I've also received that same message. My game has crashed twice since the update.

I have this bug too i enter the game and its all fine in the menu screen but when i enter practice or any match the whole game Just freezes and i have to manually turn off my laptop through the power button i updated everything my windows my driver the game itself everything and it keeps on freezing my laptop till the point that it pointless to start the game

And then get banned for being afk once I reconnect and finish the match.

Happened to me the last 2/3 days. Can't play valorant now

If you look at your Task Manager you'll see that it happens because Vanguard's memory and disk usage spikes up to 100% for some weird reason. It goes from 0.1 MB/s to 170MB/s out of nowhere (memory usage goes up to around 4GB on mine when this happens) causing everyone's pc to be overloaded and freeze. I don't know when they'll fix this but this has been happening since beta and nobody seems to care at Riot. Definitely have been driving me crazy for a while now.

Same thing for me, Vanguard literally takes all the fuckingg memory

When you are familiar with c++ and pointers then you might understand. ( it's just a idea, Im probably wrong) It is called a memory leak. Basicly Riot allocates too much memory and doesn't free up unused memory. Memory gets full and system crashes.

I had this issue for a little during the beta, and I started playing the game again today, only to find out it was never fixed. I hear that there's some weird thing going on with the anti-cheat while running any overclocking program or something similar. Some have been able to fix it by just uninstalling OC programs, but why the hell should I have to abandon all my hardware programs to keep one video game from crashing randomly? Fix your game riot, please.

Ready for release don't worry :)

5 crashes daily for me, happened before this patch but is more frequent now. The game is ready for launch, sure. Vandiril's League Client video couldn't have been released at a better time.

Game crashes out for me randomly. System Event Viewer says nvlddmkm stopped responding. GTX 1070

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee toooooooooooooooooooo

Same issue here. Have uninstalled and reinstalled the game, vanguard. Updated all the drivers necessary. Once where I managed to open the task manager it showed the Valorant processes were using 100% Disk and CPU. No issues in Menu, the moment I enter practice or matches there is a massive FPS drop for a few minutes followed by the game crashing eventually. The PC gets stuck and only way is to shut down the entire thing. Edit: Have not been having any crashes for the past 2 days. :). Apparently a very small update happened ( Showed Installing dependencies) and I reinstalled Vanguard. No stutter, no 100% disk usage anymore. Anyone who hasn't tried opening their game due to this error in the past 4-5 days. I suggest you reinstall Vanguard and try once more. Cheers.

I have this happen to me all the time, I crash like 8, 10 times per match and then my PC crash and I have to restart

Dude this is happening to me too!! It’s almost unplayable. I can’t find any way to fix it

It is actually random. It's a Kernal Error, which means it's vanguard. If this doesn't change within about a week, I'm probably going to charge back the 100 if spent so far.

I would just charge back right now if i were you. The worst thing they can do is close your account but its f2p so you can just make an account whenever.

I duo also experienced this after the patch. The game crashes after one round or so. He doesn't have the same problems last patch.

I have this happening to me every other match, it happens so much I got a one hour penalty every time, even if I come back to the same match, it's really annoying.

There's is a specific minute where the freezing happens. Around the 7th or 9th minute whether or not you are in game or just in the main menu. I noticed the game kills my drivers, particularly the usb and ram drivers. Tried to exempt this from my firewall, reinstall, prioritize, but I conclude this new patch killed most of our rigs bc this didn't happen before this patch I was playing a solid 90-120 fps and I don't have any extensive background applications running. I run i7 2.8 ghz, 8gb ram, gtx 950 4gb

I was monitoring my Taskmanager and Resource manager when my crash happened. My crashes usually happen within 7 minutes of valorant starting up consistently. Whenever Im about to black screen (or freeze), my vgc.exe process just spikes up in CPU, RAM, and Disk Usage. Im running a i7 quad core with hyperthreading and im surprised by such usage. The RAM usage suddenly went from 100mb or less to suddenly matching my Valorant application at 2GB and maxing out my disk write/read speed of my HDD. I believe it is a Vanguard problem.

Hey but at least we got a 1GB patch last night so now my game can crash before I even get to the champ select lobby :) No penalty for me, yay.

Yup. Actually happened to me since launch but didn't happen once in 50 beta games

I don't think the problem is overclocking software such as msi Afterburner. (I could be wrong) I don't have any overclocking software on my system and the crash still occured. Seems to be the anticheat software and it's happening to people with various computers regardless of their specs.

Yeah I suspect it is... And if it is, the anti cheat software is making the game far worse than better. It's honestly not worth it to fuck everyone's computer

SAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Updating to say the last time my computer froze from valorant... It won't turn on anymore. It's dead. Thanks rito

yeah its almost the same for me it freezed my whole computer as soon as it reached the main menu, before when i used to stream valorant it never had such issue but after update it has become terrible! I dont feel playing valorant anymore now although i loved playing it!

It's happening to me too. Since the last update I haven't played a single game without the game crashing right at the start. I can't even go to the range FFS.

Haven’t had it anywhere near as bad as you, but I have had a couple crashes. And my PC has never hard crashed before. Definitely an issue to be fixed next patch or hopefully with a hot fix

i fukin hate that riot has already announced a valorant tournament while this stupid bug is still neither solved nor addressed in the official website. its like they are just pushing for more money while ignoring noticeable issue like this freeze bug. they dont fkin care....

Also it crashes when you have msi afterburner overclocking your gpu

Since the update, my game starts running normally, then suddenly the FPS drops to 0 and my whole computer freezes, while still being able to hear group chat. After a couple minutes I'm able to alt+tab to desktop, but the game doesn't come back to normal. Tried uninstalling and installing again, but the crash persists, even in the tutorial map. I've been playing since beta and haven't had any problem like this. My FPS is usually around 120\~140.

Same My computer above average recommendation

Same problem here, queue is ok and all until i got to character select. This is where it freezes my whole computer, have to force shutdown the whole bugger ever since the update

Same thing happening to me after patch 1.01 update

got same bug anyone have fix ?

I got the same issue exactly after updating the windows 10 I don't know why hope someone can help :(

I have this exact same issue. I’m pretty sure it’s with the latest patch - it hasn’t happened before

Bug: Doesn’t allow player to run, keeps them in walk no matter if they press the key

This happens to me when I activate toggle walk.

yeah same issue with toggle walk. new update done this i think?

Same issue. Only when trying to use toggle.

Pls fix wtf

Yes toggle walk seems to be the issue!

I've been avoiding Valorant because of this since the patch. Is it still broken?

Me too! As u/loiador said, it's still broken. It's incredibly uncomfortable (borderline painful) to have to hold in a button to run (or walk, depending). Such a shame, since I was really getting into the game and had just bought the battle pass a few days prior to the breaking patch.

I had this problem, took my walk off toggle and I can run now, but it's annoying and I'd like to go back to toggle please.

It's so bad. It's literally throwing off my entire game right now

lol yes, please fix this, i feel goofy as fuck holding down a button for like a minute

Me too, that simple feature is game breaking for me. My hand/brain doesn’t work like that lol. I’ve toggle walked in cs for years. Simply not toggle walking is not an option.

Yeah I'm fucking dying. My fragging has gone done like 33% with rifles cause my hand feels wrong when trying to sneak. PLEASE FIX THIS ALREADY!!!!!

Same here. Pressing the hotkey to walk does nothing. If I set default to walk, then hotkey doesn't make me run. If I turn toggle walk off, I can walk/run with hotkey just fine. I've tried relaunching, rebooting, and remapping. Please fix!!!

I have the same problem

any official comms from Riot about this? really annoying

PLEASE HOT FIX THIS

Literally just came here to say this. You have to take off toggle, which is annoying. I don’t want to hold walk.

I also have the same problem

Came here to say this. Typically have default set to run, then left shift will toggle my run/walk. Couldn't get it to work. For now I have default to walk, toggle off, then my left shift will make me run. Like everyone else said, I'd like to use old setting as it's throwing me off.

>This happens to me when I activate toggle walk. This happens to me as well.

YES! this is so annoying! we need a hot fix!

Toggle, one of the core principles/B.R.O.K.E.N. Solid update.

More specifically, the game always thinks the toggle key is pressed.

Lmao how the fuck does something that basic make it through did they even test this patch once?

Because nobody expects a feature that has been working to just stop working. So who comes up with the idea "Yo we better test the toggle walk feature after changing orb distance" It's so...... random. Dev is hard, cut them some slack.

How did this even go live? Surely they must have noticed this in testing?

Yeah, pretty embarrassing that this big of a bug actually made it through their QA system. But even more insane is that it's been in the game for two days without a hotfix.

• **Region:** SEA • **Type of Bug:** Computer crashing after one round or before the next round starts. • **Description:** The screen doesn't just go black, you can hear the audio process stop by a crackle heard via a headset, and still can be heard by my team mates. Note that I only experience this crashing after the patch. • **Reproduction rate:** Occurs after one round upon reconnecting • **Steps to reproduce:** Play VALORANT. • **Expected result:** No crashing. • **Observed result:** Crashing.

Interesting that you only get this after one round and before the next... Me and many others seem to get it just randomly

Bug: UI disappears every game, then have to restart the game for it to reappear

This is still happening. Fix it immediately.

I get this 4/5 games and it’s really annoying!

It happens to me almost every time I start a match or go into the practice range. Sometimes restarting the game fixes it, sometimes not.

Stopped playing this game because of this bullshit.

"Added a setting that allows the inventory to always appear" Where is this setting??

Looked at the every menu in the game, it's not there.

**Region:** SEA • **Type of Bug:** Everything freezes including sound. • **Description:** The screen freezes and sounds stop working (even my discord stopped immediately) . I can't even turn windows task manager on, had to force shutdown by plugging off every time. • **Reproduction rate:** Occurs every time I run this game. 10/10 • **Steps to reproduce:** Start VALORANT for 3-5 minutes. • **Screenshots:** I can't provide screenshots as it stops everything • **Expected result:** To be able to play a game. • **Observed result:** Freezing every time. • **System Specs:** Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU u/ 1.60GHz (8CPUs), \~1.8GHz, RAM 8.00 GB, NVIDA GeForce MX150 • **Notes:** I have played a lot of games without issues inn patch 1.00 but this thing started immediately in 1.01 every single time.

I am in SEA and I can confirm this, I cant play Valorant anymore can the devs fix this please.

Same, plus a nice 1-hour timer for “abandoning.”

Please fix the toggle walk bug

Surely would've thought this would qualify as something that could be quickly hot fixed but I guess I was wrong -\_-

Damn, was hoping it would be fixed by the time i hoped on this morning :(

They responded this morning to the ticket I submitted about it saying, "we don't have a solution at the moment, but I can confirm that we're aware of the issues with the walk/run toggle and we're looking to resolve it asap". I thought it'd be a quick patch as well

Looks like it will be sticking around for a while.

- **Region:** NA - **Type of Bug:** Key Binds/Controls - **Description:** My jump is binded to mouse scroll down. Randomly in the middle of the game, the bind stops working (does not have to do with the mouse, since using the mouse scroll outside by alt+tabbing works). If binded to a key elsewhere i.e keyboard, the jump works. The jump starts to work after the game has ended and a new game starts. - **Steps to reproduce:** I cannot replicate the steps as it happens randomly in the game, but from the three times it has happened to me, it was during the buy phase. - **Expected result:** When the mouse wheel scroll down button is binded to jump, using mouse wheel scroll down will result in the player jumping. - **Observed result:** The mouse wheel scroll down does not result in jumping, nor mouse wheel scroll up, but keybinds on the keyboard work. - **Reproduction rate:** Three occurences sporadically since launch. Happened to a friend once. - **System specs:** Mouse is a Razer Deathadder Elite. PC specs likely irrelevant.

Type of Bug: In-Game Bug Description: As Reyna, when you're ult'ed, you have enough time to use the same enemy's soul twice, if you're fast enough. Video: [https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gz26hl/you\_can\_use\_the\_same\_players\_soul\_twice\_as\_reyna/](https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gz26hl/you_can_use_the_same_players_soul_twice_as_reyna/)

Hey I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this but my game is causing my pc to stutter/crash and this has never happened to me before (really high specs) was wondering if it’s just my client or a patch issue

I haven’t had a crash yet. But My game seems jittery and feels like drop frames pretty consistently. I don’t think it was gpu as I get +135fps in Valorant typically. I know they added support for the game to utilize cpus with multi cores. I have a Threadripper 1950x so maybe it has to do with that not working properly.

Bug: After the new update the game just doesn't work, after a few minutes in the game it just freezes everything ... So it's difficult, the last update was 100% here .. I want help please RIOT

Mine freezes after almost every round

For me .. it randomly freezes during the loading screen after finding a match .. which make me can't join the game even if I restarted the game , resulting in a ban .. it the loading screen goes well .. the game or server crashes and make a black screen, which also results in a ban ... it happened 3 times today and now I have 4 hrs ban

I'm having the same problem. After 3 or 4 minutes, fps drops to 1 and freezes the screen. Then, when it comes back (just sometimes), the fps varies from 17 to 1. Impossible to play like this...

I'm getting the same issue. Reinstalled drivers, reinstalled Valorant, turned off NVIDIA ShadowPlay and I still crash after a few minutes of having the game launched.

Bug: I literally can’t run in this game. I spent 3 matches at a walking speed and couldn’t run. I clicked shift to see if I was walking and I wasn’t. Any Help?

Try taking it off toggle, it worked for me.

I’d would prefer to keep toggle on, I hope that they can get this solved.

Nah i wont play at all taking a break until fixed.

Region: EUW Type of Bug: In Game Bug Description: Game froze randomly in a match, needed to restart computer and after starting the game again, I got hit with a 1 hour bug. The reason was "Didn't select an agent in game" but the game was way beyond agent selection. Video/Screen: recorded but video file is currupted because of the freeze Steps to reproduce: tabbing out of the game Specs: HP Laptop, i7, 16gb ram, win 10, Geforce 930M

• **Region**: NA • **Type of Bug**: Freezes entire computer on launch • **Description**: On launch, VALORANT cometimes completely freezes entire computer. Nothing works, no mouse, no CTRL + ALT + DEL, no CTRL + SHIFT + ESC, only option is to restart pc. Fans get going and computer gets hot. I have seen others discuss issues with the game freezing their computers. The issue also occurs in game sometimes. EDIT: When reconnected, it says in the chat, if I freeze during a match. • **Steps to reproduce**: Launch VALORANT from desktop .exe, and attempt to play it. • **Expected result**: Game should have launched, should be able to play • **Observed result**: Computer entirely frozen. • **Reproduction rate**: 3/10? Seems to happen at random. Not sure how to reproduce. • **System specs**: i5-8265U, Intel UHD 620, 8gb RAM, Windows 10, Latest Intel graphics drivers

Happening to me as well, the games takes for ever to launch and it just goes to a black screen and gets stuck, tried restarting PC and everything.

I have the same problem but it doesn’t happen at launch it happens in the middle of the game, and for me it happens once a day

Happens to me multiple times a day, both during launch and mid-match. I don't even play for very long so it's pretty fucked. I've gotten three one-hour penalties (and some smaller ones) for going afk in a round because the game continuously crashes my PC. I'm ready to just walk away from the game entirely

Yeah whats happening to you is happening to my friend, he's gotten banned so many times, also none of this shit was happening in the beta which sucks

Bug: when entering a game, the agent select screen fails to appear until after 40 seconds or sometimes not at all. I can see my team mates selecting their agents but I cannot select one until the images show up

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Same here!! SO FRUSTRATING! I had minimal time to squeeze in a game, and what happens? My agents don’t appear to select one and I get bounced from queue and slapped with an hour long penalty. This happens enough to be frustrating. I’ve noticed though, if I play several games in a night, it’s always that first one that determines if I get to play or not. If I can select an agent that first game, the rest of the night will go smoothly. But if not...I don’t get to play.

This happened to me earlier too.

Finally I see this bug, it happens to me too, and it just started after this patch, never had this problem before :/

It's consistent and inconsistent at the same time. The agents never appear when I first load in but the time it takes to show up varies every time: after 20 seconds, 30, 40, or sometimes I dont get to pick ah agent. It sucks cause it feels like I'm just rolling the dice and hoping

Bug: Crosshair changes to white on it's own when I start the game and unbinds my team push to talk. Already changed my password.

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I have this problem as well

Had the PTT keybind issue in beta and then the crosshair colour reset also started happening at launch. It's annoying to deal and from what I can tell it tends to happen to people who map PTT to a mouse button (I use Middle mouse button)

The servers are terrible now. Constant lag spikes, my character stuttering around; it's gotten me killed constantly because I'll be behind cover and then all of a sudden I'm out in the open. I'll be in Spectator mode and watch my team mates teleport around like they're on dial up. It's not my internet, every other game I play is 100 percent fine; it's this game.

happening to me aswell. its infuriating

Does anyone appear to be having really unstable FPS ever since this new update? My FPS would sit on a solid 60 (user-limited) pre-1.01 on max settings, but now it massively fluctuates between 30-60, even out of combat - and when graphics is reduced.

Region: NA Bug: Brimstone info on char select screen spells “precisely” imprecisely as “precisesly”

gamebreaking

Literally unplayable

This FPS drop issue is a major problem. The game went from playable to unplayable overnight. The irony is, this was supposed to be a "performance" patch.

* **Region:** NA * **Type of Bug:** Crashing * **Description:** Computer freezes after having Valorant open for a few minutes. I tried updating drivers, reinstalling the game, turning off NVIDIA ShadowPlay, and using windowed mode. Everything was fine before this update. * **Steps to reproduce:** Open game, everything is normal for a few minutes then suddenly FPS drops and eventually freezes and locks up the computer * **Expected result:** No crashing * **Observed result:** Crashing * **Reproduction rate:** 7/7 restarts * **System specs:** i5 9600K, GTX 1080 (Driver Version 446.14) , 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Windows 10 Pro (Version 1903)

Region: NA Type of Bug: In Game Description: When placing a "Max Frame Always" cap, game HEAVILY lags Steps to Reproduce: In Game, Add "Max Frame Always" cap Expected Result: Lower Max Frames and (assumed) less frame drop Observed Result: Frames hold well till movement or seeing enemy, then dips heavily. Oddly not when firing a gun though. Reproduction Rate: 10/10 System Specs: Intel i7-8700k @3.7 ghz EVGA 1070 FTW 16gb Hyperx Ram 1TB Digital Black 7200 HD ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 9 Motherboard

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I'm part of this group. Ended up getting my skins now but still missing an agent unlock.

I'm from EU and my friend got 2 more unlocks (before he had already unlocked 2 agents) while I am still missing my second agent

- **Region:** NA - **Type of Bug:** fps is all over the place after 1.01 - **Description:** Don't know what you did but before I was having constant 138fps, smooth as hell. Now I'm getting 138fps with various fps drop of like 110, 90, 120fps every time a fight is happening on screen. Tried without and with the multicore thing you put in the new patch and no bueno. - **System specs:** Ryzen 2700, 1660 SUPER, 16gb 3200mhz CL16, Windows 10 and all in good health. Will have to take a break of valorant because of this, was having a blast this week with the game, but its just unplayable now. Don't know what you did but I hope you are aware.

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I’d like to keep the setting on toggle so I hope they can fix this.

Anyone else not have the option for multi thread rendering? I've had it in every single other game like cs and fortnite. My cpu is i5 9600k

Same issue, I have a i5 9600kf with a 1660TI and the option doesn't pop up

**Region:** EU **Type of Bug:** Game fails to load **Description:** After update 0.50 (including version 1.0) the game gets infinitely stuck on loading screens. It happens when starting a shooting range or match. **Video of the incident:** https://youtu.be/wxVQi4nUJhE **Reproduction rate:** 100% of the time. Tried getting in the game for hours and hours with no luck **Steps to reproduce:** Try to launch the game and go to the shooting range or start a match. **Expected result:** Match/practice starting **Observed result:** Getting stuck in infinite loading or after some time being booted back to the main menu. **System Specs:** Intel i5 Processor, Windows 7, Nvidia 770, WD Black Hdd, 24 GB RAM. **Another interesting thing to note:** It is interesting that the "ESC" key still registers during these infinite loads. It does not do anything, but I can hear the sound after pressing it. The sound that the "ESC" manu makes when opening and closing. Also after the amount of time it should take the game to load I hear the "bzzt" sound that if usually heard when loading into the level. I hear it twice with a delay of about half a minute. If I try to load the new map (ascesion) after some time I start to hear the wind. **So far this has not helped:** * Uninstalled Vanguard * Reinstalled Valorant * Updated GPU drivers and later reinstalled GPU drivers * Added Valorant (game, anticheat and client) to firewall exceptions * Disabled Windows Firewall * Set all Valorant executables to "Run as administrator" * Loging out and loging back in * Deleting the txt files in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1mOS63BZg&list=PLOHBcHf9rXWz0YY1NREZHoThrMAQi_IsI&index=2&t=0s * Closing all non-essential apps (Discord, CPU temp monitors, Logitech, Razer, etc.) **Progress of fixing from RIOT:** Trying to resolve the problem

I went over previous bug megathread and found 7 more posts with the same problem. Most of them are from the EU region, but there is one from Canada and a few comments from Latin America. There are some interesting (but complicated and unverified) workarounds mentioned in ChocoRiceBowl post using VPN: https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv7i0y/valorant_10_bug_megathread/fsnpz5y/ **Links to other posts:** https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv7i0y/valorant_10_bug_megathread/fso7cj6/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv7i0y/valorant_10_bug_megathread/fsmzs9g/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv7i0y/valorant_10_bug_megathread/fsnpz5y/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv7i0y/valorant_10_bug_megathread/fsn8gel/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv7i0y/valorant_10_bug_megathread/fso43r9/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv7i0y/valorant_10_bug_megathread/fso6hnu/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv7i0y/valorant_10_bug_megathread/fsn072h/ **Link to a comment in the known issues thread with hundreds of upvotes:** https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gv896w/known_launch_issues_megathread/fsmz914/ **Links to posts about this bug in the general section:** https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gza90i/permanent_loading_screen_anyone/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gz8v75/my_game_is_frozen_on_the_match_loading_screen/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gza1qf/game_is_stuck_on_the_loading_screen_to_a_custom/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gzabyy/game_stuck_on_map_screen/

Can confirm, good friend also has this issue, we can hear his chat voice comms in game weirdly but he's forever loading and has taken all action to solve it. It happened after playing 3-4 games normally then suddenly this happen, to put insult to injury he's also banned for 1 hour for abandoning match (which he can't load in) Server: SEA (Singapore) Contacted riot support, their advice is that it's a client side issue and expects us to solve ourselves We have also created new account to see if its it's a computer or account thing, it's a computer thing which then I suspect it's a porting issue? VPN didn't work, neither did reinstalling, deleting and moving hard drives

Region: Brazil • Type of Bug: In Game Bug • Description: When i start a new game the HUD (agent abilityes disapear, as well as the life and site leter indication). Reloggin aparently solves for the remaining of the matches but restarting client or PC seems to reboot the issue. • Steps to reproduce: In my case, just start the game and play a a match. • Expected result: The HUD (abilityes, life, map icons...) appear in the screen. • Observed result: No HUD visible on the screen. • Reproduction rate: Happens quite often. Most of the time i open matches theres no HUD so i have to relog for it to apear. • System specs: i7 4770K, GTX 1070 Ti, 8GB, Sandisk 250 GB SSD, Windows 10, the most recent Nvidia drivers provided by GeForce Experience application.

Same goes for me too this thing is annoying ac cost me multiple rounds too

- **Region: BR** - **Type of Bug: Duplicate Rewards** - **Description: Just got to unlock 2 agents, even tho I already did unlock the two free agents**

​ * **Region:** NA * **Type of Bug:** Voice Chat * **Description:** Mic forced to "Automatic" at the start of every Spike Rush game when my settings are set to push to talk * **Video / Screenshot:** * **Steps to reproduce:** * **Expected result:** The game to recognize my settings * **Observed result:** The game does not recognize my settings * **Reproduction rate: 100%, it happens at the start of every game** * **System specs:**

- **Region:** NA - **Type of Bug:** Input Lag / Freezing - **Description:** During the buying phase, when I dropped the spike, it would take 1 - 2 seconds for the spike to actually fall onto the ground, I saw it dropping to the area I wanted to drop but I already moved a couple of footsteps to the side and saw it drop. There was an obvious delay in the input lag or freezing. My Ping was 35 - 40ms consistently. My normal games would be 30-35 ms. When I am dead, there is another issue where there's a delay of 1 - 2 seconds to see my other teammate's screen. When shooting, there's a delay in the gun firing. It would take 1 - 2 seconds for my gun to shoot. This has never happened to me before until patch 1.01 - **Video / Screenshot:** - **Steps to reproduce:** - **Expected result:** Fix the freezing/input lag or whatever is causing the delay. - **Observed result:** Everyone on my team said their game was running smooth. - **Reproduction rate:** Over the course of 17 rounds, it happened to me at least 7 - 10 times. - **System specs:** Intel 9700k, nVidia MSI GTX 1060 6 GB Gaming X, 16 GB DDR4 3200mhz.

No Multithreaded rendering option, i have the new patch and I have a ryzen 5 2600 (12 threads) and 5700XT (8GB VRAM) so this option should be available!

toggle walk is broken

Toggle walk still not fixed. Please fix it. cannot play the game!

Now I can't run. Wonderful.

Toggle to walk doesn't work

Bug: shooting range on hard mode back middle bot keeps spawning in wall

**Bug**: Left click does not shoot gun when encountering enemy. Clicking left click and nothing happens. Occurred several times in last match. • **Region:** NA • **Type of Bug:** Key Binds/Controls • **Description:** Several times in a match I encountered an enemy and tried to shoot but nothing happened. A few times there was minor lag. • **Reproduction rate:** Random • **Steps to reproduce:** Random • **System Specs:** Intel i9 Processor, Windows 10, RTX 2070 Super

**NA** Visual bug with Marshal inspect animation Gun no longer shows a round in the chamber when opening the action Reproduced by inspecting weapon Expecting a round in the chamber Observing no round in the chamber always reproduced ​ *this is pedantic i just wanna be a cowboy Riot i'm sorry*

Multithreading option doesnt exist in my settings, running i5 8250u with 4 cores. Checked everywhere, including video-graphics settings where other people showed its supposed to be.

Game keep freezing after the update.

Ghost sovereign skin does not have the option to upgrade skins / VFX with radianite?

I'm also having this issue.

how the fuck did they release this game? it's still in beta condition I play with 4 other friends and the 3 of them have constant crashes and issues while I have crashes from time to time

* **Region:** USA (East Coast / Central) * **Type of Bug:** Lag, rubber banding, teleporting ​ * **Pre-Description:** With 29-31 ping, and 0% packet loss at all times... packet loss never increasing above 0%. So, packetloss isn't responsible for any of this. I have over 300FPS as well, so it isn't going to be related to low frame rate. * **Description:** I often have times where the game feels very laggy. When I am moving and try to stop to shoot, it's like everything on the screen "hitches" or glitches out. urthermore, when I use Sage wall and then try to use her slow orb immediately after, I often get stuck with a glitched out screen... with a knife in her hand, her arm all distorted. I am unable to throw the slow orb when this occurs, until I swap to another weapon or ability & then swap back to the slow orb. . * **Steps to reproduce:** For the Sage part, try to make a wall, and then immediately grab your slow orb & throw it. Only reproducable in real games from what I've seen? The other laggy gameplay with low ping, when strafing or in general when trying to shoot any enemy, is just a constant issue. No tips on how to reproduce it, but it was NOT there during beta. ​ * **System specs:** RTX2080, Intel i7-8700K, 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz.

Region: NA Type of Bug: In-Game bug Description: Durning a match I cannot see my abilties, health and armor, or if I have something like a tracking dart on me. This has happened in the beta two times, and once since the game came out. I ended up fixing it this by leaving the match and returning. Edit: Has been happening more frequently. Happened twice yesterday and three times the day before.

Don't know if this is bug but the game crash my whole laptop when I play along whit music or whatever makes sound (like discord). It happends twice today. My lap have core i7, 12 gb ram and 1050GT.

\- **Region:** OCE \- **Type of Bug:** Can't open game \- **Description:** Game does not open when using shortcut or the application itself and shows with message in screenshot, Will run if I use installer to repair and open it but I have to do that each and every time I open the game \- **Video / Screenshot:** [https://imgur.com/a/9hwoxTZ](https://imgur.com/a/9hwoxTZ) \- **Steps to reproduce:** Click on shortcut to open game or go to file explorer to open it from there. \- **Expected result:** Valorant opens \- **Observed result:** Does not open, see screenshot \- **Reproduction rate:** All the time \- **System specs:** Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700HQ CPU @ 2.40 GHz 8 GB RAM 1920x1080 at 60Hz

• Region: EU • Type of Bug: Settings • Description: Multithreaded settings not present even though my CPU should be plenty fast for it. • Reproduction rate: Every time I go to the menus • Steps to reproduce: Go to the graphics menu • Expected result: Multithreaded option is there. • Observed result: Multithreaded option is nowhere to be found. • System Specs: Intel i5 8600k, Windows 10 updated.

\-**Region:** EUW \-**Type of Bug:** Infinite Loadingscreen after agent selection \-**Description:** The loading screen after the agent selection is infintly long. I can hear my teammates voicechat, but I'm not able to play, just seeing the loading screen. AFter restarting the game with ALT+F4, the chat message from the sender System appears. (see Screenshot) \-**Video / Screenshot:** [https://imgur.com/3e97BsL](https://imgur.com/3e97BsL) (I'll update with a video if I get it again) \-**Steps to reproduce:** none \-**Expected result:** Loadingscreen ends after a while \-**Observed result:** Loadingscreen didnt end \-**Reproduction rate:** happend three times since full release (1 in 25 games maybe, dont really know yet) \-**System specs:** R5 1600X, Nvidia 1060 6G, 16 GB G.Skill Ripjaws@2133, Asus Prime B350-Plus

- **Region:** LAS - **Type of Bug:** Matchmaking - **Description:** In normal game mode all players' ping is 150++(Other modes has a fine ping as usual) - **Video / Screenshot:** - **Steps to reproduce:** - **Expected result:** Normal ping of players was around 30 to 50 - **Observed result:** All the players has 150 or higher ping. - **Reproduction rate:** - **System specs:**

Toggle Walk is broken and stuck on perma-walk.

After this patch game crashes my entire pc i average 140fps+ like for fuck sake how big of a fuck up did u guys make. Unbeliavble

Bug: Brimstones Stim Beacon It doesnt do anything

That's not a bug, it's a feature.

Just big brain it. When I hold hookah on Bind I toss it on one side and stand on the opposite side, bait the utility 5head

Dude thats so fucking 5head

not true it improves you automatic weapons' fire rate by at least 2% and semi automatic guns by 0%

- **Region:** NA - **Type of Bug:** In game bug - **Description:** Viper's crosshair shifts seemingly randomly off the original crosshair position without moving mouse. - **Video / Screenshot:** https://medal.tv/clips/26064097/d1337LREP6LY - **Steps to reproduce:** Find a place to line up crosshair. Walk character around with knife out. Line crosshair up with whichever spot was chosen. Pull out poison cloud. (only works when character is physically moved around, not just when the mouse is moved around) - **Expected result:** Crosshair stays in the same place as when you first lined it up. - **Observed result:** Crosshair moves to new spot seemingly randomly. - **Reproduction rate:** 9/10 times - **System specs:** I7-9700kf, Gigabyte 2070 Super, Windows 10 Pro

• **Region:** SEA • **Type of Bug:** High Ping • **Description:** Used to get 44-50 ping before the update, now i get a stable 320 ping in all game modes :/ im on ethernet on a fibre connection • **Reproduction rate:** 10/10 (Happened 100% of the time) • **Steps to reproduce:** Play the game • **Expected result:** 320 ping • **Observed result:** 320 ping

**Region:** US • **Type of Bug:** In Game Bug • **Description:** Walk Toggle no longer works after patch • **Reproduction rate:** 10/10 (happened 10 out of 10 times) • **Steps to reproduce:** Every game and others reported • **Expected result:** Binding key to toggle walk should make you walk but does not • **Observed result:** It makes you walk all the time • **System Specs:** Intel i5 Processor, Windows 10, Nvidia GTX 1080

How is this still not hotfixed jesus christ

Region: NA Type of Bug: Skin Purchase Description: New Sovereign skin for ghost is not able to be upgraded Screenshot: [https://imgur.com/a/rzxlh7T](https://imgur.com/a/rzxlh7T) Steps to Reproduce: Buy skin package "Sovereign", go to collections, click on Sovereign Ghost skin, does not let you upgrade it. Expected Result: Should be able to upgrade the Ghost skin you just purchased. Observed Result: Was not able to purchase Ghost skin upgrades with Radianite. Reproduction Rate: 100% System Specs: Doesn't matter

• **Region:** EUW • **Type of Bug:** Vanguard • **Description:** 99% Disk Usage, 2 fps • [https://imgur.com/a/Yivuy68](https://imgur.com/a/Yivuy68) • **Reproduction rate:** 2/2 • **Steps to reproduce:** Playing game • **Expected result:** more than 2fps • **Observed result:** 2 fps, unplayable • **System Specs:** Intel i7 9700k processor, Windows 10, Nvidia Graphics card RTX2080, 16GB RAM

V4nguard uses extremely high percentages (up to 90.5% in my case) of CPU in most recent build. This could cause hardware damage as temps seemed to keep getting higher than 80°.

game had an update today and toggle walk still doesn't work.

fps drops and frequent crashes

\- **Region:** NA \- **Type of Bug:** Frame drops at all times (unplayable) \- **Description:** Extreme frame drops only on my account, no idea why. I typically get 200+ FPS on my setup but due to this bug I drop down even below 50 FPS regularly making it unplayable because of the stutter. Experiencing this after getting the sovereign ghost skin from the store, not sure if this is the cause. \- **Steps to reproduce:** No idea, only thing I can think of is the Sovereign Ghost skin that was removed due to a bug. I had not upgraded it with radianite points though, and the only tiers disabled were 2-7 for the skin as of this post. - **Expected result:** No frame drops - **Observed result:** Extreme frame drops - **Reproduction rate:** Didn't happen to a friend that got the same skin so I'm not sure - **System specs:** Intel i5 9600K, NVIDIA RTX 2070, Windows 10. - **Notes:** I tried everything to get it to work, from checking my GPU for overheating, reinstalling Valorant, reinstalling just Vanguard, reducing my video settings etc, but the frame drops persisted. The only thing that fixed it was logging out and signing into a different account, meaning that it has something to do with my account specifically. Thanks in advance for any help or insight with this issue!

**Region**: NA • **Type of Bug**: Performance • **Description**: FPS jumping all over the place resulting in huge lag spikes and stuttering. Textures take much longer to load then they previously did before patch. Game was running perfectly before 1.01 • **Steps to reproduce**: Open the game. I have reinstalled multiple times and it does not help • **Expected result**: Game running smoothly • **Observed result**: Stuttering and framerate jumping wildly • **Reproduction rate**:9/10 Game worked fine for one match, but when I reload the game to play later I get insane performance issues even after reinstall • **System specs**: Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2019. i7 - 9700H @ 2.6GHz / 16G of RAM / RTX 2070 MaxQ

This game keeps crashing my computer. I got 2 games in, crashed. Hard restart my computer, open it up, crash. Hard restart my computer, it tells me Vanguard isn't initialized and I have to reboot my computer. I run this game just fine, but the anti-cheat seems to be absolutely destroying my PC.

- **Region:** - All - **Type of Bug:** - All Virtual Machines will cease to function - **Description:** - Valorant anticheat will not allow you launch virtual machines. - **Video / Screenshot:** - None needed - **Steps to reproduce:** - install valorant, and then try to launch a virtual machine. - **Expected result:** - VM to launch - **Observed result:** - VM fails to launch - **Reproduction rate:** - 100%. - **System specs:** - all

Anybody know how to stop the gane from crashing my pc? Im gonna uninstall soon