Valorant rewards input clarity over visual fidelity. Even on a mid-range PC, you can maintain a locked 240+ FPS with the right configuration.
In-game settings
| Setting | Recommended |
|---|---|
| Material Quality | Low |
| Texture Quality | Low |
| Detail Quality | Low |
| UI Quality | Low |
| Vignette | Off |
| VSync | Off |
| Anti-Aliasing | MSAA 2x |
| Anisotropic Filtering | 1x |
| Improve Clarity | Off |
| Bloom | Off |
| Distortion | Off |
| First Person Shadows | Off |
| NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency | On + Boost |
Windows tweaks
- Turn off Game Mode — counter-intuitively, Game Mode introduces stutters on most systems.
- Disable Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling — reduces input latency for competitive titles.
- Set Power Plan to “Ultimate Performance” — run
powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61in an admin PowerShell. - Disable Windows Focus Assist — notifications can briefly pause input.
NVIDIA Control Panel
- Low Latency Mode: Ultra
- Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance
- Monitor Technology: G-Sync Compatible (if your monitor supports it)
- Preferred Refresh Rate: Highest available
The most important fix: CPU affinity
Valorant’s anti-cheat sometimes spawns on the wrong CPU cores. Use Process Lasso to lock VALORANT-Win64-Shipping.exe to your fastest performance cores only (first 6 on Intel 13th+ gen, all cores on older CPUs). This alone can boost 1% lows by 30+ FPS.
Aim settings
For competitive play, most pros use 800 DPI with an in-game sens between 0.3 and 0.4 (eDPI 240–320). Raw input is always on. There is no visual benefit above 240 Hz — set your monitor to its native refresh rate.