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Valorant Diskless Launcher

This document provides instructions for installing a diskless Valorant launcher. It involves: 1) Installing Valorant normally and moving its files to a new installation directory. 2) Creating batch files to symbolically link the Valorant files and launch the game without installing locally. 3) Running the batch files to install and launch Valorant without using the local disk. Additional steps are needed for Windows 7 like installing an update and disabling driver signature enforcement.

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Valorant Diskless Launcher

This document provides instructions for installing a diskless Valorant launcher. It involves: 1) Installing Valorant normally and moving its files to a new installation directory. 2) Creating batch files to symbolically link the Valorant files and launch the game without installing locally. 3) Running the batch files to install and launch Valorant without using the local disk. Additional steps are needed for Windows 7 like installing an update and disabling driver signature enforcement.

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Valorant Diskless Launcher

- First, install Valorant as usual and reboot after the installation complete. For this
tutorial we will install the Valorant to drive I ( you can install Valorant to other drive
such as C, D, E etc ).
- Make a new folder inside Valorant directory and rename it to "Localdata".
- Hold windows button (⊞ Win)  and push R button, and type %localappdata%,
then hit enter.
- Cut folder Riot Games and VALORANT and paste them into "Localdata" folder
inside Valorant installation directory that we created earlier.
- Hold windows button (⊞ Win)  and push R button, and type %ProgramData%,
then hit enter.
- Cut folder Riot Games and paste it inside Valorant installation directory ( not inside
"Localdata" folder ).

-  Hold windows button (⊞ Win)  and push R button, and type %ProgramFiles%,


then hit enter.
- Cut folder Riot Vanguard and paste it inside Valorant installation directory ( not
inside "Localdata" folder ).

- Make a new text document inside Valorant directory and save it as batch file, then
rename it to "Mklink Riot Folder.bat".
- Edit the "Mklink Riot Folder.bat" and copy these commands into the batch file.
Then save it and run it once :

@echo off
mklink /J "C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard" "Riot Vanguard"
mklink /J "C:\ProgramData\Riot Games" "Riot Games"
mklink /J  "%LocalAppData%\Riot Games\" "LocalData\Riot Games"
mklink /J  "%LocalAppData%\VALORANT\" "LocalData\VALORANT"
exit
- Make a new text document inside Valorant directory and save it as batch file, then
rename it to "Valorant_launcher.bat".
- Edit the "Valorant_launcher.bat" and copy these commands into the batch file. 
This file will be the launcher for diskless client. Don't forget to save it.
@echo off
start "" "Riot Client\RiotClientServices.exe" --launch-product=valorant --launch-
patchline=live
exit

- Super user / Super client one of your diskless client. Boot up the client and go to
Valorant directory, Delete all files inside "Riot Vanguard" folder. Then run "Mklink
Riot Folder.bat" in the client.
- Then Run "Valorant_launcher.bat", wait until the launcher finishes installing Riot
Vanguard. After the installation complete, play the game until it tells you to reboot.
- After reboot, run "Valorant_launcher.bat" and play the game until you enter the
game lobby / tutorial .
- Exit the game and shutdown the client. Then save the client's image.

For Windows 7 :
- Download and install windows update KB4499175 from here or here.
- Disable Driver Signature Enforcement by pressing F8 when client boots up in super
client / super user mode before running the valorant for the first time on client.

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