If you’re trying to launch Valorant or join a match, but you keep on getting Unexpected Provisioning errors, you’re not the only one. Stating that other gamers are experiencing the same problem can be a relief as it indicates this issue is rather coming from the game’s servers and it’s not on your end. But this simple sentence does not fix your problem.
In this guide, we’ll take a look at provisioning errors in Valorant to see why they occur in the first place and if there’s anything you can do to get rid of them.
Understanding Unexpected Provisioning Errors in Valorant
The bad news is that information is really scarce. Riot has not offered any details about provisioning errors on their official support page. There’s not much information on how to fix it either. Meanwhile, you can try some of the solutions listed in this guide in case Valorant fails to launch with unexpected provisioning errors.
Most likely, this is a server issue
Since this error occurs mainly when users try to launch the game, we believe this points to a server-side problem. Let us not forget that Valorant was only recently launched and there’s a huge number of request coming from millions of computers to the game servers.
Most likely, the game servers were unable to respond to your computer’s requests. As the error message suggests, this is an unexpected problem but we’re sure Riot will solve it as soon as possible. Or the servers may simple be down.
Being able to join the fun when a new major game, such as Valorant, is launched matters a lot for passionate gamers. But perhaps the best approach is to just wait a few hours or maybe a few days until the first major patch for Valorant is released.
This buys Riot more time to patch major issues and better organize their server architecture so as to avoid outages caused by a huge number of players trying to connect to the game servers simultaneously.
We’ll keep an eye on this matter and we’ll bring you more information about it as soon as it’s available.