Yeah gg bro get ssd, its happening to everyone with hdd and riot is too busy milking their bundles instead of fixing their game

hey! just saying ive been having this problem for a while and if u dont want to go through the pain of getting a new pc or the SSD stuff i have some solutions that fs helped me a lot. Now, i can load into the first-second round of games so if im lucky my team wont remake if you just tell them "my computer sucks i might not load into the first round" so first when u open valorant go into task manager, details, scroll down to the valorant.exe and valorant-win64.exe ur gna want to right click and change priority to below normal. Then, go to services and find vgc. make sure this is running. if its stopped right click and click start. then when valorant is on the home screen heres the slightly annoying part. you gotta load up like 3-4 custom games. you can exit out of them as soon as u load but u still gotta see them all through. you have to hover an agent until the agent animation pops up. the more customs u load the faster thw animation will appear. It takes me 2-3 until its comfortably loading tbe animation as soon as i hover an agent. then, you can load up a unrated or competitive and have fun. (make sure to tell ur team that u might not load in so u have a higher chance of them not remaking) if you're lucky you might even load into buy phase. also if u have a problem when other ppl dodge and u get stuck on the agent select, dodging the second game that u automatically queue into sometimes it might load u into it if you do this enough or have valorant running for that long. it also helps to be in a duo or party so if someone dodges they can dequeue you guys. hope this helped!

ssnipxrpug That's so ridiculous. My friend has a HDD and every time we try to play it takes him like 20 minutes to load in, and I have made a comment about his HDD needing to upgrade but he claims it IS a SSD.

aTrashPanda tbh tell him to try my method since it helped me a lot

ssnipxrpug you also have to change ur max fps always to 20 and turn rvery limiting button to off

i’m on a ssd and the initial game booting up takes forever, same when i go into a game