Valorant VAN 1067

Riot Games names this code but does not publish the wording it prints on screen, so we quote only the code itself: VAN 1067. Any site showing you an exact message for it has written one.

What it actually means

Riot's current article describes it as Vanguard running into an unexpected issue while starting or checking in with your system — in other words, a failure of the vgc service to start or register, not a hardware requirement.

The community consensus says something else, and it is worth knowing why. For a long time this code was explained as a TPM 2.0 or Secure Boot problem on Windows 11, and Riot support itself answered that way at the time. Nearly every page you will find still says it. Riot's own article no longer does.

So treat the hardware explanation as what it is: formerly correct, no longer what the operator publishes. If your issue really is TPM or Secure Boot, the codes for that are VAN 9001 and VAN 9003.

How to tell which one you have

Open an administrator command prompt and run sc query vgc. If the service is stopped or will not start, that matches Riot's current explanation and the fixes below apply. If vgc is running and you still get 1067, collect logs and open a ticket rather than rebuilding your BIOS settings.

Fixes, in the order worth trying

1. Install all pending Windows updates — Riot lists this first. Vanguard depends on current system components.
2. Unplug extra USB devices — Controllers, docks and capture devices. Vanguard trips over their drivers, and this is the step that surprises people because it sounds unrelated.
3. Run the Riot Client as administrator
4. Set the vgc service to start automatically — Open services, find vgc, set Startup type to Automatic.
5. Run a full malware scan — Riot includes this, and it is not boilerplate — anti-cheat failing to check in is a known symptom of something else hooking the system.
6. Reinstall Vanguard last — Uninstall it, reboot, then launch the game to reinstall it cleanly.

Operator documentation: support.riotgames.com. Riot keeps VAN codes for Vanguard separate from VAL codes for the game, and their numbering overlaps between the two registries. Check which prefix the game printed before following advice written for the other one.

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