u/ChemicalCap6886

My friend has been having a really weird issue with VALORANT and we're running out of ideas.

Whenever he launches VALORANT, after a few minutes his entire PC completely freezes. Sometimes he can get into a match and play for a bit, but eventually the same thing happens.

It's not just VALORANT crashing. The whole PC becomes completely unresponsive. He can't Alt+Tab, open Task Manager or do anything else. The only option is to manually restart the PC.

Things we've already tried:

• Reinstalled VALORANT
• Reinstalled Riot Vanguard
• Updated/reinstalled GPU drivers
• Installed all Windows updates
• Tried running VALORANT/Riot Client as administrator
• Disabled unnecessary background apps/services
• Checked RAM and system usage
• Monitored temperatures/usage before the freeze
• Tried different VALORANT settings

Nothing has fixed it so far.

Other games seem to work fine, so it appears to be specifically related to VALORANT/Vanguard.

Has anyone had the same issue where VALORANT causes the entire PC to hard freeze? If so, what fixed it?

Any help would be appreciated.