Valorant is a game with numerous technical issues and error codes. Some players report that persistent in-game crashing occurs when they try to play Valorant. For instance, this is what one such player reported: “Valorant keeps crashing randomly… The crashes happen at random—sometimes right after agent selection, mid-game, and sometimes before I even get into the match. No error messages, just straight to the desktop.” This is how you can fix regular in-game Valorant crashing on PCs.
Disable Fullscreen Optimizations for Valorant
What some players confirm is that turning off full-screen optimizations can fix in-game Valorant crashing. Fullscreen optimization is enabled by default, and disabling it can sometimes enhance the stability of the Valorant game. You can turn off fullscreen optimizations for Valorant like this:
- If you start Valorant from the desktop, right-click its shortcut to select Properties. Alternatively, right-click the VALORANT-Win64-Shipping.exe in the C:\Riot Games\VALORANT\live\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ folder to select Properties.
- Select Disable full-screen optimizations in the Compatibility tab.
- Also, select Run this program as an administrator for the full-screen optimizations setting.
The Compatibility tab
- Click Apply to save the settings as configured, and OK to close.
Add Valorant to the Windows Firewall’s Allowed App List
Adding Valorant to the Windows firewall’s allowed list will ensure that the firewall doesn’t block the game’s server communications. If that firewall blocks the required core Valorant connections when playing, it can cause in-game crashing. So, try adding the Valorant.exe game to the allowed list for the Windows firewall, as covered on this Microsoft page. Then, select the Private/Public checkbox for the Valorant and BootstrappedPackageGame entries in the allowed list.
The Windows firewall settings
Minimize In-Game Video Settings
Riot Games recommends that players minimize in-game graphical settings to fix Valorant crashing. It makes sense to do so because reducing graphics settings lowers the PC system load, which can fix things like RAM overload. To do so, start your Valorant game and click on the gear icon > Video > Graphics Quality. Then, lower the graphical settings as follows:
- Material Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- Detail Quality: Low
- UI Quality: Low
- Multithreaded Rendering: Off
- Vignette: Off
- VSync: Off
- Anti Aliasing: Off
- Bloom: Off
- Distortion: Off
- First Person Shadows: Off
- Improve Quality: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: 1x
The Graphics Quality
Update Graphics Drivers
Riot Games recommends players update graphics card drivers when troubleshooting Valorant crashing. The latest graphics drivers can sometimes include optimizations and bug fixes that can remedy crashing in games. So, try installing the latest, compatible driver for your graphics card with a method covered in this KeenGamer post.
The NVIDIA driver download page
Select the Repair Option for Valorant
The Riot Client includes a Repair troubleshooting option you can select for games. That automatic repair tool might fix missing or corrupted files that can cause Valorant to crash. This Riot Games page provides step-by-step instructions for selecting the Repair option.
The Repair option
Disable Overwolf Launcher
Players have confirmed that they’ve fixed in-game Valorant crashing by disabling Overwolf Launcher. Overwolf is a software that provides additional in-game apps, such as overlays and other gaming tools. If Overwolf Launcher is on your PC, try disabling that app like this:
- Right-click an area of your taskbar to select its Task Manager shortcut.
- Look through the Processes tab to find an Overwolf Launcher process.
- Right-click any Overwolf Launcher process and select End task.
The End task opton
- Next, click on the Startup apps tab.
- Right-click OverwallLauncher in the Startup tab to select Disable.
Update the BIOS
Some players have also fixed regular in-game Valorant crashing by updating the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) on their PCs. However, updating the BIOS isn’t a routine troubleshooting method and should only be applied as a last resort potential resolution. I recommend reading this Intel guide for details about how to update the BIOS on your PC.
Although there is no surefire way to fix regular Valorant in-game crashing, the potential resolutions discussed above have worked for some players. So, they can reduce the frequency of in-game crashes in Valorant when applied to make the game more playable. Valorant also has a help service to ask for more potential remedies by clicking Chat Now on this support page.
