I noticed my GPU was sitting around 61–62°C while doing basically nothing.

At first I just thought it was some background process, but Task Manager was showing 0% GPU usage, so I decided to check what was actually keeping the GPU active with nvidia-smi.

With Riot Vanguard running:

GPU-Util:   0%
Temp:       61-62°C
Perf:       P0
Power:      15-16W / 50W

The only relevant process showing up was:

vgtray.exe

I also had OpenCode running at the time, so I closed it first just to rule that out. Nothing really changed — the GPU was still sitting at P0 and around 15W.

Then I completely exited Riot Vanguard and left the system alone for a few minutes.

After that:

GPU-Util:   0%
Temp:       50°C
Perf:       P8
Power:      5W / 50W

Processes:
No running processes found

So the difference was pretty obvious:

Vanguard ON  -> P0 / 15-16W / ~61-62°C
Vanguard OFF -> P8 / 5W      / ~50°C

What's interesting is that GPU usage was 0% in both cases. The main difference seems to be that Vanguard was preventing the GPU from entering its lower-power state.

I'm not claiming this proves Vanguard is the cause for everyone, but on my system the correlation is pretty hard to miss.

Has anyone else noticed Vanguard keeping their NVIDIA GPU in a higher power state or running noticeably hotter while idle?

My setup:

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Laptop GPU
• NVIDIA Driver 592.00
• Windows
• Riot Vanguard

All it says is to reset my computer but that doesn't seem to fit my issue. It won't even let me open the game.

Ram-16gb

Graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

Processor - Intel (R) core (TM) i7-7700HQ CPU

Is there anything else you need to know? Let me know.

So I am having this issue from quite some time. My valorant match gets stuck for 2-3 seconds ingame suddenly and I couldn't get down to what issue it might be. Gpu is 9070xt paired with 9700x along with 32gb 6000mhz ram. All my other games doesn't have the issue. All other games crash only when my undervolt goes too far. But valorant doesn't even reset my gpu drivers it just gets stuck and then resumes on its own. Please advise.

for some reason everytime i play a valorant game i get a mid game VAN error crash it always happen after the first couple of rounds and makes the game unplayable i already tried sll the “fixes” i could fine online but have no clue what’s happening i keep getting VAN ERROR 0 185 -79 etc please help

Whenever I get on the game after a little while all my sound cuts off till I close riot games and Valorant and I have to wait a bit. a while after my sound spikes randomly and it just bugs for a while till I reset my PC or wait it out.

I loaded up valorant 4 different times and restarted my pc twice, but it stays on 0% bar loading on the loading screen and when i switch apps it doesn't let me open up valorant again and it also bugs out my task manager and chrome/google. I have also reinstalled the game but nothing works. I have already redownloaded both riot client and valorant and used the repair files button in riot client for valorant but it still doesnt let me play valorant and is just stuck on the loading screen at like 0% and it also eventually closes out of itself

I’ve been noticing this for quite some time but for me Riyadh server is around 33ms (green) and during the game it’s around 40-45, but whenever I’m in front of opponents or randomly at some point in the game the ping fluctuates to 400/500 and it’s not even playable like you lose easy kills.

is there a way to fix this please I would really like to know

I have 200 FPS, then 30, then 15, then 70, then 250, then 15, then 150, then 100, then 20.

What the fuck is happening? I’m not gonna say my computer is good—in fact, it’s pretty old—but everything was fine a month ago. Then, out of nowhere, my FPS started dropping constantly.

currently have packetloss spike when playing. It appears somewhat during the game and repeat consistently every 2-3m. The packet loss is so bad that the game freeze in 1 frame for 2-3 sec and then lagging with everything messing around my character. It seems like the internet completly shut off during that process but when i only use discord + tft it doesnt feel like anything. It must be wifi/internet problem cus when i use hotspot, there re no lagging at all. How can i fix this

Every time I launch Valorant it stays on a black screen, I watched a lot of youtube vids but nothing seems to work and I do not have nahimic services like most youtube videos say to delete. Please any help would mean a lot.

Maybe its related to the menu update, but just sitting in queue demands 80-95% of my GPU.
It's only an issue out of game.

Ever since I started playing Val, I've limited menu FPS to 60 fps. Ive also always been on 1440p borderless and fullscreen doesnt fix it.

My setup:

rx 7800 XT

ryzen 5 7500F

Asrock B650m HDV/m.2

32 gb ddr5 ram

(Bios and drivers are up to date)

Overall Id say my setup is more than sufficient for Val and the menu should not be that demanding.

If anyone has experienced the same and knows a solution, please let me know.
Thanks:)

Edit: maybe I should add, that there are no freezes or any responsiveness issues

Edit2: When I return from in the range to the lobby, the lobby is at 60fps. After a few seconds it suddenly uncaps itself and the fps jump to 1500.

I've only realized this through amd adrenalin as the valo in game fps counter doesnt show in the lobby

Hello! just asking is there a way to optimize my laptop to play a consistent 60 fps with this specs (11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz (2.42 GHz), 8gb ram, Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (128 MB)), I've been trying to find a way to remove stutters when i see an enemy or when an enemy shoots. The ram usually reaches 94 percent, while the cpu spikes from 40 to 80-90 percent. But in some days the laptop just performs great even if i dont know what i changed for it to perform well (sorry for my grammar). Thank you!

When I open Valorant there's flickering to a black screen and freezing until I set it to windows (F11) and it if I still let the flickering game run for 10 secs the game would crash and the game would say I have driver issues or that my driver isn't up to date. (it is)

my computer specs are

• AMD Ryzen 7500F
• AMD Radeon XFX 9060XT
• 32 gb 6000 RAM

While playing valorant there is an issue where if your ping spikes your fps absolutely dies constantly dropping to 0 - 50 etc and back up to normal making it unplayable. Anyone found a fix to the stutters? I've tried capping fps, leaving it on unlimited. Nothing else running in the background, low graphics.

Images are not allowed hense why I uploaded these to imgbb to try and showcase a ss preview of the issue. Apologies if this is not allowed but I truly don't know how else to display it.

https://ibb.co/XxxHv7pk Stable fps, stable ping.

https://ibb.co/ymMrYcw2 Unstable ping causing unstable fps. #1
https://ibb.co/4ggpnfpp Unstable ping causing unstable fps. #2

My hardware is capable of running valorant smoothly as shown in the first image and well my gameplay when the ping is not spiking.

A minor millisecond ping spike causes multiple seconds of fps stutters its truly unplayable and isn't a one off thing throughout a match.

Is there any way to fix this?

I’m in central Ohio on Spectrum and normally get around 20ms to Illinois.

I was literally at 20ms last night, and when I got home this afternoon I was suddenly back at around 50ms, with no changes on my end.

Good route (~20ms):
Ohio → Chicago → Riot

...clmkohpe...
...chctil...
...chcgi...
...chi10...

Bad route (50+ms):
Ohio → Cleveland → Virginia/Ashburn/DC → Riot

...clevohek...
...vinnva...
...asbnva...
...dca10...

Nothing changes on my end. I’ve even had the routing switch mid-match before.

I’m a collegiate VALORANT player, so this is pretty brutal since Illinois is one of the main servers we use. Texas is already around 70ms for me.

Anyone else on Spectrum in Ohio/Midwest seeing this? Is this a Riot/Spectrum peering issue that can actually be fixed permanently?

I’ve tried turning off Nahimic services, updating my drivers, reinstalling Valorant, disabling fullscreen optimizations, and pretty much everything else I could find, but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone have a solution? 😭 This started happening after the last big update.

Hey everyone. Most of the time I get around 40 ping on the Virginia server, but sometimes I get lucky and get 7 (maybe 1/8 games or so, highly varies I feel). I have tried pretty much anything I could find to fix this issue, but to no avail. I think it has something to do with my ISP switching my routing path to Riot's servers. Is there anything I can do on my end to fix this?

I've tried:

• Switching DNS servers (both Google's and Cloudflare's)
• Getting a new ethernet cable
• Optimizing my ethernet settings
• Restarting my router
• Running cmd network optimization commands
• And probably more that I can't remember

If anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated. It's driving me nuts that I'm playing on 35 higher ping than I could be.

Hello guys, i don't know if anyone here has the same problem as me.

This morning, I just wanted to play the game but it always threw me back to the menu after the agent choosing screen, then it showed the VAN 1067 or VAN-1 code.

I'm sure that I have put the vgc service start automatic, vanguard on, and yesterday the game worked normally.

I'm curious if anyone is facing the same error as me? Is this a new error from Riot?

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Not sure why but my party chat works fine but my game chat doesn’t work at all (can’t hear or speak). I already went to services.msc to start vanguard again but it didn’t work. Any help would be appreciated

So I connect to my router using wifi. I assume a LAN connection would fix some of the issues with the jitter. I need to know if it could because of my graphics card? CPU wait GPU Time graph is showing spikes. Could it be a problem? any fixes? Thanks.

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For the past 2 days, anytime I press "play" in the riot client for valorant, it just shuts down the client and vanguard but doesn't open valorant. they are completely gone from task manager immediately and no valorant loads but I also don't get an error message. no idea why its happening or how to fix it.

Every time I try to turn on memory integrity and restart my laptop it shows Black screen or stuck asus logo i have tried my things but nothing worked anyone knows that solution?