VALORANT crashing randomly is one of the worst feelings a player can experience while trying to enjoy Riot Games' team-based first-person tactical hero shooter. Considering these crashes don't come with error texts, it's difficult to precisely point out their root causes, so you may need to try a few fixes.

I started encountering unexpected crashes in VALORANT a couple of weeks after I upgraded my gaming rig with a new GPU. The circumstances didn't make much sense to me, and I thought there could be a problem with my graphics card. No other game was crashing, though, so it was apparent that VALORANT was the problem.

How to fix random crashes in VALORANT

When VALORANT keeps crashing, you need to apply various fixes since it's almost impossible to identify what triggers these crashes without getting into the technicalities. Below, you can find some of the most commonly recommended solutions for VALORANT crashes by community members discussing VALORANT crash fixes.

• Update your GPU drivers after uninstalling the previous version with Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU.)
• Update your drivers for Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller and all components through Windows updates.
• Turn off hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.
• Turn off Memory Cleaner-type software.
• Cap your frames to your monitor's refresh rate.
• Lower RAM speed by a small margin, like from 3600 MHz to 3400 MHz.
• Set VALORANT and its files as exceptions on your antivirus and Firewall.

The fixes mentioned above may look disconnected because VALORANT can crash for different reasons. It's hard to pinpoint exactly why VALORANT crashes, so we compiled the most suggested fixes.

For me, my VALORANT stopped crashing after I removed all graphics drivers with DDU. I installed the latest available software, and after that, I completely uninstalled it, and the crashes were gone. 

Why does your VALORANT keep crashing?

Your VALORANT may keep crashing if it continues to encounter an anomaly that causes it to act up. Sometimes, it can be a buggy GPU driver; other times, it can be because frames go wild and cause your graphics card to overwork itself.

While you can always submit a support ticket to VALORANT and get more detailed information for your case, the fixes mentioned in this article could just solve the crashes for good and save you some time. Crashes are some of the worst errors/bugs to run in the game. They can even happen in ranked matches and cause you to drop your place in VALORANT's rank distribution in time. Even when you finally stop getting crashes, you can still run into errors like "couldn't not enter matchmaking" in VALORANT, which is a connection-related error that pops up on rare occasions.