Any chance you can say what the issue with Core Temp 1.15.1 is? Vanguard is blocking it from starting, and I get a notification that Vanguard has blocked something, but when I click the notification vanguard does nothing/doesn't give me any details.
I don't know what driver it uses but my guess would be either a vulnerable driver (like MSI Afterburner did) or the driver isn't signed in a way that complies with Microsoft's Secure Boot requirements.
I don’t have any questions, you’ve laid out everything very clearly and understandably. I just wanted to say that I appreciate the amount of transparency we’ve received from all you devs. As someone who as 2,500+ hours of CSGO (like many other VALORANT players) I’m beyond excited to actually see the dev team working with players, and communicating exactly what’s going on. Enjoying the game probably way too much, and I’m very excited for ranked to come out soon. Keep it up VALORANT Dev Team!
Thank you for the kind words!
Hi /u/0xNemi and /u/RiotArkem !
Is there a way to check what was blocked beyond the notification? On boot, the notification disappeared before I could click it, and when I then went to notification center and clicked on it, it went away without presenting any popup or additional information on what was blocked.
Reading this thread, I'm 99% sure it was HWMonitor, but the fact that I have to rely on an ephemeral popup rather than an actual application or even just a log file is pretty frustrating.
The name might be in this registry key, you can take a look: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\vgk\BlockedImage
Welcome current and aspiring VALORANT players, my name is Joe Lee and I’m the revenue lead for the game. Through the closed beta or elsewhere, you’ve probably already seen the work-in-progress VALORANT store and a small sample of the weapon skins and other cosmetic content available.
The Premium Content team and I hope you’ll be able to collect and customize your VALORANT experience into one that champions your playstyle, performance, or maybe just your taste in shiny weapons.
First and foremost: we care about making a great game. The collection of optional extras will never affect gameplay, so all you need to focus on is hitting your shots and going B, but then going A. Or going A, but going A.
Below, I’ll dive deeper into cosmetic content and how to get them. Here’s your quick summary:
It is installed on your computer when you install any Riot game (default install location: C:\Riot Games\Riot Client).
The window will show under a few circumstances. For example if you are not logged in or if there is a new patch for the game you are trying to launch or any of its dependencies. A window is opened in order to display progress for the new patch it is downloading.
Are you running into an issues or are you just trying to understand why it sometimes doesn't open a window?
Vanguard is blocking System32 .sys drivers on system start up. xtuacpidriver.sys to be exact. Which is Intel tuning software.
Make sure you have the latest update from the vendor: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24075/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-Intel-XTU
Extremely old versions of this have been known to cause issues.
Thanks for the report. We're on it.
Hi /u/0xNemi and /u/RiotArkem !
Is there a way to check what was blocked beyond the notification? On boot, the notification disappeared before I could click it, and when I then went to notification center and clicked on it, it went away without presenting any popup or additional information on what was blocked.
Reading this thread, I'm 99% sure it was HWMonitor, but the fact that I have to rely on an ephemeral popup rather than an actual application or even just a log file is pretty frustrating.
Run this command in command prompt:
reg query HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\vgk /v BlockedImage
The tray icon reads from that location.
Hello, is there any possibility of adding a toggle walk option please?
It's on our list of to-dos - not sure of timing just yet.
Solid patch for a lot of UI issues I've been having both in-game and in the menus. Having to press play at the top right was a bizarre choice, so I'm glad they're addressing that. Ammo and damage direction indicators are a game changer.
The changes to health and ammo UI are incremental. Hopefully they make things a little better without becoming detrimental in other ways. Let us know how they land.
Can i know the fix too?
The player edited their comment with the fix (NOINTEGRITYCHECKS was on), I just didn't want to publicly post it out of privacy respects.
Your issue may be different - Player Support has pretty good steps for finding known configurations that can cause issues.
Any info on the BSOD many people are having due to Vanguard? I'm struggling so hard with the AC I had to uninstall the game otherwise I keep having blue screens...
If it's still happening after yesterday's update can you file a support ticket and provide them the BSOD crash dump? (It'll be C:\Windows\Memory.dmp)
Reading this makes me feel like someone from gaming community answering and not like someone from Dev side. You guys have won my heart. No matter what happens to the game, don't let this side ever wear off. Games will come and go over the years but humbleness and respect for the community will always be the things you will be remembered for.
P.S. I had a question too, forgot to ask 😂. My auto guns keep stop firing randomly while holding down LMB. I have checked outside the game and the LMB works fine. Is it because my laptop is on the lower end side of the spectrum? I have a laptop with i5-7200u with GeForce 940MX and 8GB of RAM.
We've seen a few reports of issues like this and we're investigating. Hopefully we can track it down but I suspect a game bug rather than something unique to your computer. Your computer sounds like it should run the game fine!
What would you recommend I do about this. I am more concerned over temperatures than fan wear so I always have my fans at 100% voltage using MSI command center. If I uninstall command center they immediately go to operating very slowly until my CPU gets hotter than I would like. Has this exploitable driver issue been fixed in recent updates to MSI command center, or am I going to be forced into choosing if I want excessively hot CPU/mobo or not playing valorant?
I haven't tested it but the change log from MSI Afterburner 4.6.2 says
Which sounds promising!
/u/RiotArkem Hello there. Sorry for botherin you but i have a quick quiestion. League of legends has something called League Displays which let's you pick wallpapers from charmpions and skins etc. Have you thought about adding Valorant wallpapers?
I'd love for something like this to exist, not sure if/when it'll happen though!
Yeah I get the same behavior from NZXT Cam, with Vanguard blocking driver cpuz_149x64.sys.
It prevents CPU temp monitoring and fan speed control. I've opened a ticket with NZXT, I guess we'll see if they're responsive towards this or not.
Feel like we'll get stuck in a he said/she said between Riot and the other companies that make these programs.
Yeah, that driver has a security vulnerability, here're the details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-15302/
Versions later than 1.81 should be ok though!
I get it that when two pieces of software are incompatible it's easy for the two vendors to blame each other. We try not to blame the other software providers but in cases like this (with publicly documented security vulnerabilities) we're comfortable saying that the problem lies with the other software.
"Removed character portrait from player’s minimap icon to better distinguish player icon; icon will receive additional color and polish in the future"
Does anyone know what this means? Are they removing our own portraits from the mini map to help find yourself on the minimap, or all portraits? I liked the portraits more than just colors like CSGO, or just blue colors like it was in valorant befoe the change
Just your portrait. Your teammates still have their portraits.
I didn't see anything about the ping spamming issue that drops FPS for the whole team. Hopefully this is something they fix, extremely easy to troll with it.
We mostly fixed it in 0.47+ but there was still a way to do it. 0.49+ closes that last loophole.