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The best Valorant PC settings to have more FPS and lower system latency

Skill is the most important factor when you want to achieve victory in VALORANT, but can your PC perform well enough to allow for it? Here are some recommendations to help your PC run the game better.

Wins in VALORANT are achieved through player skill and team communication, as knowing how to play correctly is the most important factor there is. But how are you going to improve your reaction time if your PC isn’t showing you all of the information you need to have? We’ve gathered some of the most popular settings to choose in the game to help you get a higher framerate and improve the system latency.

VALORANT system requirements

By design, VALORANT isn’t a terribly demanding title, meaning that it is purposefully built to be able to run in as many hardware variations as possible. Below you’ll find both the minimum and recommended PC specs, as shared by Riot Games themselves.

Minimum system requirements

  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / AMD Athlon 200GE
  • RAM: 4 GB
  • GPU: Intel HD 4000 / Radeon R5 200
  • VRAM: 1GB
  • OS: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit

Recommended system requirements

  • CPU: Core i3-4150 / Ryzen 3 1200
  • RAM: 4 GB
  • GPU: GeForce GT 730 / Radeon R7 240
  • VRAM: 1GB
  • OS: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit

Best VALORANT settings

If you’re already running the game, there are some options you can change in the game’s settings to help you run the title better. Of course, as PC hardware is so varied, there is no assurance that this will actually affect how the game performs. But these are generally going to help those with less powerful machines get some extremely valuable extra frame.

Additionally, feel free to alter any of the following settings by yourself: some options may help you more than others, but this is all a very “trial and error” process. Something we can absolutely be sure of, however, is that you should be playing in Fullscreen Display Mode, with the game’s Resolution set to your monitor’s native resolution with the highest available refresh rate. Also take care to turn off the FPS Limit, and if you have access to NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency, enable it with the “+Boost” option.

Without further ado, this are the graphic settings that have worked for us:

  • Multithreaded Rendering: On
  • Material Quality: Low
  • Texture Quality: Low
  • Detail Quality: Low
  • UI Quality: Low
  • Vignette: Off
  • VSync: Off
  • Anti–Aliasing: MSAA 2x
  • Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
  • Improve Clarity: Off
  • [BETA] Experimental Sharpening: Off
  • Bloom: Off
  • Distortion: Off
  • Cast Shadows: Off