Game freezes after a few mins

I recently had an issue where my game would crash my PC every time I opened it, after a few seconds in the loading screen. After talking to the Riot Support, turns out the issue was that I had my game installed in my secondary drive, so I reinstalled it on my main drive and it opens correctly now. However, after a few minutes of being in the game, whether I'm in the main menu, in The Range, in a match, or even if I have the game minimized, my computer freezes completely and I have to reboot.

I already asked Riot about this but I'm also asking here if anybody has ran into this issue before.

Zach•4/23/24, 10:45 PM

Having this same issue. Ive uninstalled both the game and the client, made sure windows is up to date, closed any conflicting softwares, set priorities, etc. Cannot get this to work

Zach•4/23/24, 10:46 PM

@Blixer lmk if u have any luck

ZZach @Blixer lmk if u have any luck

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:48 PM

Riot Support told me the issue was likely the fact that my CPU is too old (which doesn't make sense at all, the game works perfectly fine until my computer freezes)

Zach•4/23/24, 10:49 PM

damn. And it didnt happen till this new update right? @Blixer

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:49 PM

The time between the game opening and my computer crashing seems consistent though

Zach•4/23/24, 10:49 PM

maybe we have a seperate issue. Mine is random, doesnt matter if im loading in game, in game, range, etc.

ZZach damn. And it didnt happen till this new update right? @Blixer

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:50 PM

No idea, this is my first time actually playing the game

Zach•4/23/24, 10:50 PM

ohhh. What cpu do u have? do you know? @Blixer

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:51 PM

first gen i7, specifically the Core i7 920

BBlixer The time between the game opening and my computer crashing seems consistent thou...

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:51 PM

This is around 2 to 3 minutes

Zach•4/23/24, 10:52 PM

blixer i got news

Zach•4/23/24, 10:52 PM

that is a processor released in 2008

Zach•4/23/24, 10:52 PM

def the problem

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:52 PM

I know

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:52 PM

But it doesn't make sense how the game runs perfectly fine (even getting 120 FPS in high settings) and then just crashes lol

Zach•4/23/24, 10:53 PM

overloaded most likely

Zach•4/23/24, 10:53 PM

i mean u can try halting other processes that take up processing power

ZZach overloaded most likely

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:53 PM

Not really

Zach•4/23/24, 10:53 PM

the 120fps mostly effects gpu

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:54 PM

iirc it barely goes to like 40% usage when running the game

Zach•4/23/24, 10:54 PM

hmm

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:54 PM

will check again tomorrow

Zach•4/23/24, 10:54 PM

could just be compatability issues?

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:54 PM

maybe

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:54 PM

at this point I can really expect anything

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:55 PM

if the game refused to run before and crashed my PC just because I had it installed on another SSD lol

BBlixer iirc it barely goes to like 40% usage when running the game

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:56 PM

even games like fortnite which are a lot more demanding (Fortnite specifically because it's poorly optimized) manage to run alright in my PC

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:56 PM

so it's either compatibility or just a bug with anything on my build

BBlixer Riot Support told me the issue was likely the fact that my CPU is too old (which...

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:57 PM

support also told me that "what the game does after being launched is trying to set the resolution to 1680x1050 and then closes"

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:58 PM

doesn't make sense either since the game runs at that resolution fine for the time I mentioned before

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 10:59 PM

doesn't directly crash my computer the moment it loads

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 11:00 PM

at some point I'll likely get a new PC so I guess I'll be able to play then

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 11:01 PM

but not for now (if it's not on my laptop, which is an office laptop but runs the game at consistent 60FPS in low graphics without any issues)

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 11:04 PM

@Zach also, if you haven't tried that before, add exceptions to Valorant, Vanguard and Riot Client to your firewall

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 11:04 PM

that's one of the things Riot Support told me to do

BlixerOP•4/23/24, 11:20 PM

maybe it's just a bug with my CPU or something who knows