Launching game crashes sound on PC

Teaachsee

Starting today with the new patch I cannot open this game without completely ruining my sound. It will play the first 1-2 seconds of sound on the title screen and then everything goes silent. If I am playing a youtube video on my second monitor it will instantly bug the video and cause it to play super laggy and the sound there and on any other application/window on my PC not even system sounds work anymore.

If I close valorant sometimes it recovers and sometimes it does not recover no matter how many things I disable and re-enable until I restart my computer.

I am on windows 10.

Turning off third party audio managers has no effect, neither does running as administrator. ALL drivers are up to date..

This problem was not present before the update.

dinkchavez

This is happening to me too. Audio works until I enter the main menu of Valorant, then all audio (input and output) on my computer dies. Only fix for me has been to restart my PC, but once I launch Valorant, it breaks the audio again.

Tohnoshiki

This has been happening to me too, I thought I was going crazy. I uninstalled and reinstalled many times

DandelionLux

I thought I was alone aswell! I asked for help in the discord server but even after reinstalling the game, updating my drivers and doing the windows updates my game still crashes my sound on the entire PC. Only restarting helps but after launching Valorant again the same bug occurs!
Have any of you solved the problem already? 🙁

kdplan9

My computer started doing this as well. Anyone find a fix or why this is happening??

MidaZ

Started having this issue by sometime near the beggining of August.
I've noticed that Valorant controls all the audio on your pc, even if its not managed by windows(in my case, it's controlled by Creative Labs, since I have a hardware for my headphones.)
I've noticed that it disables my 7.1 configuration and turns it into 2.1, and even after closing valorant, all the sound options on PC make it crash, doesn't matter if it's on windows configurations, creative labs, etc. It just freezes the entire PC.
On my opinion, they changed how the app controls the audio on your device and it simply do a shit job on controlling it.
Hope someone can find a fix soon.

AminHussain

Yes after the new update 6.01.. I have the exactly same Issue!!..only few second on title screen and everything goes silent..same goes after exit..my sound card driver crash..youtube laggy and no sound..literally no nothing..the only fix is restart the pc and things back to normal..dont even start...i install uninstall sound driver,valorant, windows 10 pro..still the same result...just for your info..my pc is windows 10 with Creative Titanium HD with driver version 8.0.3 (Daniel K)...the rest of the game i dont have any issue..except valorant...due to this i have stop playing valorant for awhile..please fix the bug..thanks

0xnap

I used to play Valorant time ago since it were launched but I decided to delete my account a year ago cause it start giving some issues with mi sound card SB XFi Titanium PCIex that I never can fix, the same problem you have guys, i've tried fully re-installing drivers and the game, using differents settings with the sound card, unabling the enancements, using an older driver, etc.. With no doubt the problem is in the Game or it AntiCheat service because it crash only with Valorant, isn't it?
Two weeks ago I created a new account decided to start playing again but I've forgotted the sound problem and now i'm screwed, even if I don't use this device as principal when I launch the game it crash, and is necessary to reboot to recover the audio service. Idk, but i guess this is enterely a Valorant developers responsibility cause them software can't or shouldn't harm the functions or services on your computer, less if the service or function is not being used by the software. I never had an issue with my sound card with anything else, Valorant is the first. They should fix it anyway. It's unbelievable they still can't fix this.
Anyone agree?

MicrowavedBunny

Same issue how is this still a problem? I have tried everything i can think of and every "fix" I can find and nothing works its just completely breaks windows audio after a couple of seconds in game.

annxyy

MicrowavedBunny same, do u resolve?

GOATSOQA

Ive got the same problem, it started out of nowhere I even used SDI to install optimal drivers. I get no output sound and my internet discconects. The only temporary fix i found if you go in the device manager right audio input and output and press on "Scan for hardware changes" wait till its finished then do it again that fixxes it for me.

Windows + R devmgmt. msc to get into device manager or just search in the bottom left.

MatinSanei

i have the same problem after i lunch the game after 20 secount then all audio (input and output) on my computer dies and if i close the game my aduio back to normal and every think fix only i have problems in valorant

annxyy

MatinSanei sameee do u fix?