Why does my computer completely freeze when playing valorant?

My guess would be that you bought a computer that’s designed to be used for basic office work, and not for gaming. You should contact Riot for tech support for their game, as they are best equipped to help you.

I noticed the same problem on mine, I have my computer attached via HDMI and the picture was freezing... Turns out the problem was that if xbox does not detect any sound coming in from the HDMI in, it freezes the picture. When sound resumes, the picture
resumes as well. So my solution till they fix it is to play a 'silent' wav file in the background on my computer, and the freezing stops.

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I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today despite this Noah

Please tell me:
When you say that a game crashes, the game just closes unexpectedly and the desktop appears or your whole windows system crashes?

Also, when you say “I have reset my computer to a fresh wipe” how did you exactly reinstalled windows?
Did you formatted everything?

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In the meantime, this can be a bit dumb. But please try connecting the PC to a completely different power socket or in a different room
Just to see if it’s something with socket used

Hi Noah, please try the socket thing when you’re able to do it.

If maybe that doesn’t work, please try reinstalling windows instead using a USB flash drive (it’s more clean)
In some cases and depending the corruption the option inside Windows settings is not the best

If you need a tutorial for that, check this one:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

So when the game crashes, it black screens and all my peripherals stay on (mouse, keyboard) then after a couple seconds, it restarts. I reinstalled windows off of the device but I deleted all personal files and reset the settings to factory. I will try the socket thing and thank you so much for the response!