Valorant error 46: What the error code means and how to fix it?

Error codes can be one of most frustrating things that you can experience while playing games on PC. This is because y take a significant amount of time to fix and can often be confusing. Unfortunately, Riot Games’ popular first-person shooter, Valorant, has been plagued with countless error codes since its beta release. It has been dealing with all kinds of exploits and bugs. Valorant error 46 is among many error codes that players have been encountering while logging into game. So, let us understand what error code actually means and how you can resolve issue.

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What causes Valorant error 46

Valorant error 46 represents an issue connecting to platform. Riot Games advises users to restart game client, which is a viable solution to most of error codes that appear in game. However, it doesn’t always seem to fix Valorant error 46 issue as same code continues to flash on screen after rebooting  game.

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How to fix Valorant error code 46

When you come across an error after launching game or during your play session, it is usually associated with some hardware or software malfunction from client end. However, in case of Valorant error 46, it was revealed by game officials that error is caused due to server downtime.

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Officials at Valorant take down  gaming servers for maintenance for a short period of time in order to deal with  heavy loads on servers. To fix issue, Valorant suggests that users log out of game, n log back in after encountering this particular error code. company has also explained issue relating to this code on its Valorant FAQ p. p mentions that Valorant error code 46 is a planned downtime that is allotted for engineers to work on company systems.

For users who have been seeing this error code for an extended period of time, and above steps don't seem to help, y can contact Valorant support team.

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