Valorant error 4 indicates that your display name is invalid. This means there’s a problem with your Riot ID. In this guide, we’ll talk about this specific error and how you can fix it.
Valorant Error 4: Why it Occurs & How to Fix it
According to the official Riot support page, the first thing you should do when getting error 4 in Valorant is to change your Riot ID.
How to change your Riot ID in Valorant
- Step 1 – Navigate to your Riot Games account page
- Step 2 – Enter your username and password to log in to your Riot Games account
- Step 3 – Locate your Riot ID option
- Step 4 – Hit the Edit button of your Riot ID and enter a new display name
- Step 5 – Click Submit to save the changes.
Keep in mind there are some limitation as to how often you can change your display name. For more information on how to change your Valorant display name, check out this guide.
Additional solutions
Here are some additional troubleshooting suggestions you may try just in case changing your display name is not enough.
- Run Valorant as administrator. This gives you full permissions for installing, running or deleting the game.
- Restart the Riot Client, as well as your computer and modem. A simple action such as restarting your game client, machine and network devices helps you to eliminate temporary files that might cause all sorts of glitches when playing your favorite games.
- Disable background processes. Valorant is a not a game that has out-of-this-world system requirements but turning off unnecessary processes while playing the game is a good idea. In this manner, your computer’s CPU and RAM power will be used powering Valorant. You can end resource-hogging processes using the Task Manager. Simply right-click on the processes you want to stop and select End Task.
There you go, we hope error 4 is no longer bugging you. However, if you still can’t access the game, submit a ticket to Riot support.