Valorant is one of the popular shooter games published by Riot Games for all Microsoft Windows users. It is free-to-play and multiplayer tactical, so many new users are willing to give it a try. Not surprisingly, they fall in love with the game. But many of them reported the same problem: a critical system error occurs to terminate the process suddenly. MiniTool Solution tells you how to fix it.
Do you know Valorant? It is a popular hero shooter game that attracts a large number of users. Though it’s required to log in to Riot Servers before playing, users should do nothing but double click on the game title. Why? That is because the gaming client will do that work for you.
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Valorant Critical Error
However, a critical error may occur while users are enjoying the Valorant game experience. Users said their Valorant keeps crashing and then the System Error window shows up to stop them from playing Valorant anymore.
The exact error message you can see on the pop-up System Error window is:
A critical error has occurred and the process must be terminated.
Would you like to create a crash dump to aid the developers in troubleshooting this issue? This may take up to 5 minutes.
NOTE: The process may appear unresponsive during this time.
You’d better click Yes to create a crash dump so that the developers can review and analyze it to get the most possible causes for the problem. By doing so, the developers can release some patches to Valorant, helping to get more users out of trouble. But that’s not our topic here. In the following content, we’ll mainly focus on providing some useful solutions to the critical system error on Valorant.
How to Troubleshoot Valorant Crashing PC
Why does Valorant keep crashing? Valorant crashing is a frequent issue since it can be caused by lots of reasons. Here, we summarize the main causes for the critical system error on Valorant.
- Permission issues
- Random game error
- Corrupted game files
- Overclocked CPU or GPU
- Improper game launch settings
- Third-party software interference
- Outdated drivers of display or graphics
- Multiple running overclocking software
- …
Please try the following solutions to fix the Valorant system error you receive.
Solution 1: Restart PC
The simplest but effective way to solve various problems that occurred on your computer is restarting it. Please shut down the PC completely, wait a few minutes, turn on the PC again.
Solution 2: Run Valorant as an Administrator
- Press Win+R.
- Type services.msc into the Run dialog box.
- Click OK or hit Enter on the keyboard.
- Select VGC from the services list.
- Right-click on it and choose Properties.
- Select Automatic from the drop-down list of Startup type.
- Click Start under Service status.
- Click on the OK button and close the Services window.
- Open File Explorer and navigate to the Valorant directory (its installation folder).
- Open Riot Games, VALORANT, live, ShooterGame, Binaries, and Win64 one by one.
- Look for a file called VALORANT-Win64-Shipping and right-click on it.
- Choose Properties from the menu.
- Shift to the Compatibility tab at the top.
- Check Run this program as an administrator.
- Click OK.
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If this didn’t help, please perform the same actions to the game shortcut. After that, open Riot Games, Valorant, and live to perform the same actions to the VALORANT file.
Solution 3: Modify the Game Launch Settings
- Press Win+R.
- Type %AppData% and click OK.
- It will bring you to the Roaming folder.
- Please go back to the AppData folder.
- Double click on Local.
- Open ShooterGame, Saved, Config, and WindowsClient one by one.
- Look for the ini file and open it.
- Change the value of DefaultMonitorIndex and LastConfirmedMonitorIndex from 0 to -1.
- Close this file to save changes.
After that, please launch Valorant to enjoy the game. If the critical error still occurs, please also try these methods to fix it:
- Update BIOS (how to update BIOS on Dell?)
- Update Windows system
- Update display/graphics drivers
- Revert to the base clocks
- Disable or uninstall suspicious third-party software
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