Sometimes Valorant is not installed or does not run with different notifications (error codes).One such situation is an error when starting Valorant "Couldn't start".
The complete error is as follows:
"Couldn't start *:\Riot Games\VALORANT\live\ShooterGame/Binaries/Win64/VALORANT-Win64-Shipping.exe" ShooterGame -remoting-app-port=55944 -remoting-auth-token -ares-deployment=na -config-endpoint=https://shared.na.a.pvp.net -savetousrdir -cultur=en_US -rso-endpoint=https://auth.riotgames.com CreateProcess() returned 5
Error occurs when trying to start the game It is quite easy to fix the situation and in most cases no difficult actions will be required.
What to do
- After an error occurs, restart your computer and try running Valorant again, Most often restarting the system helps.
- Reinstall Riot Vanguard anti-cheating system Start anti-cheat, after which the Vanguard icon will appear in the lower right corner of the taskbar (trey).Right click on the icon and select Remove Vanguard. Next, go to Valorant to have the installer install the anti-cheat again. Reload PC.
- Act similarly to the previous point, only after deleting the anti-read, run Valorant as an administrator (click on the RMB shortcut and select the desired item at the very top of the context menu).
- The cardinal solution is to remove the Valorant completely along with the anti-cheat and cleanly install from scratch.
Reinstall from the latest version of the installation file. You need to download Valorant from the official website.
The listed actions should help resolve the startup issue, which is accompanied by a "Couldn't start createprocess() returned 5" error.
The actions for each player are individual. For some, a regular reboot will help, for others, they will have to reinstall the game with Vanguard.
If the game still does not start and the error appears again, then support recommends writing to them in Discord.
