Valorant opengl32.dll Error Solution

When Valorant players try to open the game, they encounter the "opengl32.dll" error and cannot access the game. If you are facing such a problem, you can find the solution by following the steps below.

What is Valorant opengl32.dll Error?

This error is usually encountered with the graphics card not being up to date. Of course, it may not be the case that the video card is not up to date, but not working. One of them may be a problem that occurs with your Windows operating system not being up-to-date. For this, you need to confirm whether your Windows operating system is up to date.

Windows files may be corrupt or faulty. For this, we can understand what is causing the problem by checking the windows files. We will try to give you a solution by considering many possibilities like this and giving suggestions in this article.

How To Fix Valorant opengl32.dll Error?

In order to fix this error we encountered, we can reach the solution of the problem by performing the following suggestions.

1-) Update Windows

Check if your Windows operating system is up to date. If your Windows operating system is not up to date, do not forget to update it. If your Windows operating system is out of date, it can cause many problems.

2-) Update Graphics Card Driver

In such continuity problems, we may encounter an update error on the graphics card. For this, we will need to update the graphics card. If you're ready, let's start.

For Users with Nvidia Graphics Cards;

• First of all, Nvidia's Geforce ExperienceWe need to download and install the program.
• After completing the download and installation process, we open our program and open the Drivers menu above.
• Let's download our update by clicking the Download button that appears above.
• After our download is complete, let's perform the installation process by pressing the quick installation button.
• After this process is finished, restart your computer.

For Users With AMD Graphics Cards;

• Released by AMD  AMD Radeon SoftwareWe need to download and install the program.
• After completing the download and installation process, we open our program and click the Check for Updates button under the driver and software menu on the right, and check whether our video card is up to date.
• You can restart your computer by performing the update process.

After updating our graphics driver and restarting our computer, we can try to open the Valorant game.

3-) Repair Windows Files

Error or corruption in Windows files can bring many errors in the operating system. For this, we can eliminate the problem by repairing the corrupted files in the system.

Do an SFC Scan

Damaged or corrupted files that occur in Windows files can present many error codes. For this, we will tell you a few ways to solve the problem.

• Type "cmd" in the start search screen and run as administrator.
• Type "sfc /scannow" in the command prompt that opens and press enter.

After this process, corrupted or damaged files will be scanned and correction processes will take place. Do not shut down or restart your computer until the process is complete. After this process, let's perform another suggestion.

Scan for DISM

• Type "cmd" in the start search screen and run as administrator.
• In the command prompt screen that opens, type the following commands in order and press enter.
• Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
• Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
• Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

After the process is completed successfully, you can restart your computer and check if the problem persists.

4-) Turn off Antivirus Program

Disable any antivirus program you use or delete it completely from your computer. If you are using Windows Defender, disable it. For this;

• In the start search screen, type "virus and threat protection" and open it.
• Then click on "Manage settings".
• Turn Real-time protection to "Off".

After this process, let's turn off other ransom file protection.

• Open the start search screen.
• Open the search screen by typing "Windows security settings".
• Click on the "Virus and Threat Protection" option on the screen that opens.
• Click the Ransomware Protection option in the menu.
• On the screen that opens, turn off the Controlled Folder Access.

After performing this operation, we will need to add the Valorant game files as an exception.

• In the start search screen, type "virus and threat protection" and open it.
• Select Manage settings under Virus and threat protection settings, and then Add or remove exclusions under Exclusions .
• Select Add an exclusion and then select the Valorant game folder saved on your disk.

After this process, close the Riot Client program completely with the help of a task manager and try to run the Valorant game again. If the problem persists, let's move on to our next suggestion.

5-) Allow Firewall

The firewall might be blocking the Valorant game. In order to prevent this, we will need to allow a few valorant applications from the Windows Defender Firewall.

• Type "Windows Defender Firewall" on the start search screen and open it.

• Click on the Allow an application or feature to bypass the Windows Defender Firewall option on the left side of the screen that opens.

• Click on the Change Settings button in the menu that opens.

• After clicking the button, the Allow another application button below will be active. Let's click this button.

• Let's open the file location listed below by pressing the "Browse" button on the screen that opens.

• Then, let's make our selection by accessing the file location I left on the side. C:\Riot Games\VALORANT\live\VALORANT.exe

• Then we add the following folders by applying the same way.
• C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard\vgc.exe
• C:\Riot Games\Riot Client\RiotClientServices.exe

• After performing these operations, we restart our computer by pressing the OK button. Then you can run Valorant Launcher .

6-) Reload the Game

If the above processes did not solve you, completely delete the game from your computer and reinstall it. Since there are many users who solved the problem by performing this action, we wanted to include this suggestion in our article.