Valorant
Riot's VALORANT writes rotating Unreal Engine runtime logs and Windows crash-report bundles under its Saved folder while the game records startup checks, patching events, rendering warnings, anti-cheat handshakes, and match-session diagnostics. Those files can accumulate into large .log sets, minidumps, diagnostics.txt reports, and crash context data after repeated updates or instability, even though they are only for troubleshooting. Kudu removes these disposable logs and crash-report artifacts without touching game files, settings, Riot account data, keybinds, or match history.
Why clean Valorant?
- Repeated launch failures or Vanguard-related errors generate new log files every session, and the growing Saved/Logs folder can quietly consume hundreds of megabytes of SSD space
- Every crash can leave behind minidumps, crash context files, and copied diagnostics in Saved/Crashes, so a period of instability often shows up as unexpectedly large local app data usage
- Verbose Unreal Engine renderer and network logging after patches can create many rotated logs, leaving users to notice disk space shrinking even though the game itself was not reinstalled
- Old crash bundles rarely help after the underlying bug is fixed, but they remain on disk and make it harder to find the latest report when troubleshooting a new freeze or desktop crash
- When the game writes logs across many sessions, cleanup and indexing by Windows security tools can add background disk activity, which some users notice as extra SSD churn after closing the game
- If you are investigating current crashes, removing stale reports first makes new failures easier to isolate because only fresh dump and log files remain instead of months of historical noise
Cache paths Kudu targets
Windows
%LocalAppData%/VALORANT/Saved/Logs |
%LocalAppData%/VALORANT/Saved/Crashes |
Common questions about Valorant
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