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Valorant - How To Fix Riot Vanguard Crashed
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Ensure the Vanguard process is not running in the background. In your system tray, right-click the icon and select Exit Vanguard. Manually restart the process and ensure it will startup automatically. Open up your Windows Services Manager by searching for Services in your start menu search.
Exit Riot Vanguard
Ensure the Vanguard process is not running in the background. In your system tray, right-click the icon and select Exit Vanguard.
Restart Riot Vanguard
Manually restart the process and ensure it will startup automatically. Open up your Windows Services Manager by searching for Services in your start menu search.
Select any service and start typing VGC
Select any service and start typing VGC. This will show you the vgc service in this list. Right-click the service and select Properties.
In the General section of this panel, make sure to set the Startup Type to Automatic
In the General section of this panel, make sure to set the Startup Type to Automatic. Under Service Status, click on Start. This will start the Riot Vanguard process and will in most cases fix the “Riot Vanguard Crashed” error you are getting.
Reinstall Riot Vanguard
In case this did not help you out, then you will have to reinstall Riot Vanguard to your system. Open up your Windows Settings. Under Apps, select Installed Apps.
Filter your search by all drives and search for Vanguard
Filter your search by all drives and search for Vanguard. Riot Vanguard will show up in this list, and you can then click on the burger menu on the left-hand side to uninstall the program. To reinstall it to your system, re-launch your Riot Client, and it will take a minute to redownload the files to your system.
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