Fixing VALORANT crashing my network drivers

In a sweet irony, given I published a post about Evaluating kernel level anti-cheats as a consumer , some aspect of VALORANT, likely Vanguard, ended up soft bricking my internet whenever I tried to play the game. While this was a soft brick - only happened when playing the game, and it would fix itself after exiting the game - it was incredibly frustrating to run into. Here is what I learned and…