How to fix the "VALORANT failed to launch" error.
Tried every tutorial, still nothing, does anyone know how to fix this?
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Please do not follow on random tutorials on Youtube
It is recommended that you reverse all of the changes you made
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Go to C:\Riot Games\Valorant\Live\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ And run the file Valorant-Win64-Shipping.exe
once i run that file are there any other steps I'll need to take?
I need to see if it actually run first
The most common thing is that your user does not have permission to open the file
But for my fix to work you need to make sure your game is not being ran as an administrator
^^
I infact do not have permissions to open the file
And also if i want to run it as administrator i have to right click on the VALORANT icon first and select the "Run as administrator" section
There's an option within the properties and compatibility to make it run as admin
Always
Why are the changes hard to reverse? And why did you unsend that message
I figured it out i believe, thats why i deleted it
im just trying to figure out how to get to the properties now
Okay done, so now what should i do
Click change settings for all users
And Uncheck the boxes
done
Press apply and ok
I'm pretty sure you also changed more settings than
As you are changing the shortcut to valorant
Not the actual valorant application
is this the actual one?
Nope
That is again just a shortcut
C:\Riot Games\VALORANT\live\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64
Here's the direct path to the real one
got it, here's everything i see
VALORANT-Win64-Shipping
the .exe is missing, is that nothing to worry about?
It just means you don't have file endings enabled
i see
but apart from that what do i do now, enable to run it as administrator?
Nope
Again we do not want the game running as an admin
soo
ah right
Let me get the commands one sec
Open cmd as admin
and enter
icacls "C:\Riot Games\VALORANT" /grant Users:F /t /c
Is valorant installed on that drive
i tried on my D: drive aswell
in the format
icacls "D:\Riot Games\VALORANT" /grant Users:F /t /c
I'm not asking that
I'm saying right now
Where is it installed?
on my usb drive, my fault for forgetting to mention that
....
I found the problem
...tell me
it's just too slow to launch
my laptop? the usb?
im kinda lost
The usb
Please just move it towards the local drive
Solution
if i have space lmao, thanks very much tho
hello, my valorant is stuck on the loading screen. when i try to open valorant its stuck on the loading screen. i cant even go in the menu of valorant.
its stuck on this screen
Image
i try to run as administrators. disable fullscreen optimisation but that doesnt work
Shoot, that’s the wrong message
The real message, the one above that sorry