Same problem. It is very irritating because you completely fulfill the requirement. Game and OS both in SSD, more than enough specification and even lowering the graphic resolution. When selecting agent, the agent animation take like 30-40 secs to load. Sometimes it doesn't load at all after selecting it. Just yesterday, when I get into the game, the surrounding and the players all looks polygons for 1 round. It is so bad to play like that. It is probably my internet issues because I have 60ms in that round but why need internet to load local resources? I feel like playing on cloud gaming. I also encountered sounds delay and some agents sounds do not play at all.

My specs - AMD Ryzen 3 3200G, RTX3050, 16gb RAM, SSD 240GB

Bucky

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I am having the same issue. My HP laptop had its motherboard changed a few days ago. A "Manufacturing program mode is in Unlock Mode" message pops up during booting. Does it have anything to do with the unreal load-in times in valorant? By the time I enter a Deathmatch, the top player already has 20 kills. The load in times for competitive is a little bit lower but still absurd.

arslanarslan I have done quite literally every single option on this post lol.. even BEFORE ever seeing this page. I've looked it up on YouTube, and nothing helps. My specs can run the game just fine. When I press "play" on the Riot Client it takes minimum around 4 minutes to take me in. When I queue for any game mode (Deathmatch, TDM, Comp, etc) literally any game mode except for custom I get stuck on the "Match Found". For example, today I queued a deathmatch, got stuck in "Match Found" for like 3 minutes and loaded in once everyone was already moving and fighting. I queued a TDM, got stuck got stuck in "Match Found for like a couple seconds, loaded in, picked my agent (which to my surprise loaded in lol) and when there were like around 38 seconds left in agent select the game freezes. Even worse, it just completely crashes my computer. Sometimes when I try to alt+tab or alt+esc it just freezes and I am forced to turn off my computer by holding down the button on the PC case. The worst thing is that I am getting the penalty warning for dodging. Again, I loaded up into a TDM and picked Raze, and when there were 10 seconds left, the whole thing just froze. Obviously, there is nothing I can do because it freezes the whole computer and I can't turn off the PC because I dodged and I'd get a penalty. So I am forced to wait it out. Turns out someone else dodged and I knew that because I heard "Select Your Agent" on the NEXT game (remind you I am still stuck on the 10 second Raze screen) and FINALLY after getting off that screen it loads the screen where it just shows the map when someone dodges and I got stuck there. Then I get loaded into the lobby with a penalty warning on my screen. Sent them an email, they helped out and it worked for a while, like a week and a half and then just broke again. It has been like this for a couple months now.

Hi Cactijack i've also been having this issue for about the past month. I've talked to VALORANT support and they also didn't know how to fix it. Are you using an HDD or SSD? I was using an SSD and go an external SSD thing from amazon for like $25 and now the game loads in fast. I can give you the link if you want.

I meant I was using an HDD***

fraxbnezl you look like my ass crack bro

its sucks that I get banned for loading too slow 1 hr ban when I load slow in team deathmatch is ridiculous

Bucky crazy how valorant is concerned with adding gay ass characters, making expensive ass skins but not improving the actual fucking game? like what is riot doing bro?

btw guys and ik this will sound very bad (get a nvidia gpu, like a really cheap one and i think valorant will work) i used to have a bad pc that i slowly upgraded but nothing seemed to help my fps UNTIL i got a cheap ass nvidia gpu thats like at the bottom of all gpus, everything just suddenly loaded faster than light so yeah ik this reply wont help but u could still follow my advice.

Just play couple of games it'ill reduce