To tap heads with ease in VALORANT, you’ll need the best settings possible. A superior frame rate usually gives players an advantage over gamers struggling to flick to heads cleanly.
While reaching 1000 frames per second (FPS) is excellent, let’s remember you’ll easily succeed anywhere from 120 to 300 frames. If you’re looking to play at a higher level for a career, or even as a hobby, you’ll require a PC that’ll take you the extra mile.
What are the best FPS settings in VALORANT?
Here’s what you’ll need to change in the in-game Video settings in order to make your FPS as high as possible in VALORANT:
In the Graphics Quality section of the video settings, perform the following:
- Multithreaded Rendering: On
- Material Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- UI Quality: Low
- Detail Quality: Low
- Vignette: Off
- Vsyncs: Off
- Anti-Aliasing: MSAA 4x
- Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
- Improve Clarity: Off
- Experimental Sharpening: Off
- Bloom: Off
- Distortion: Off
- Cast Shadows: Off
Additionally, you’ll want to head to the General section of the game’s video settings and do the match your settings to the following:
- Limit FPS on Battery: Off
- Max FPS on Battery: 60
- Limit FPS in Menus: On
- Max FPS in Menus: 144
- Limit FPS in Background: On
- Max FPS in Background: 30
- Limit FPS Always: Off
How to check your monitor settings
Make sure your display mode is set to fullscreen. If you’re playing on windowed or any other display mode, you’ll lose valuable frames. Your resolution should match your monitor’s refresh rate. To learn what your monitor’s settings are:
- Go to display settings from your desktop
- Click on “Advanced Display settings”
Once you’ve found your monitor’s native resolution, you’ll be able to change your VALORANT settings to match.
Recommended max FPS for VALORANT
Max FPS is likely necessary if you’ve got a slower PC. Set your max FPS to your monitor’s refresh rate, or one step beyond.
Dropping things to their lowest setting is usually the way to go if you’re looking to maximize your FPS. Depending on what you change, you’ll be impacting things like your shading and texture quality, meaning you might miss key details in the game that can benefit you in your matches.
There are areas in maps like Ascent where if you lower a particular setting, wall bangs will be harder to find. Prepare to learn things slightly slower than other VALORANT players who’ve got their settings turned up to the max right away.
Enable Game Mode on Windows
If you’re playing on Windows, you can always try to activate Game Mode which is designed to prioritize the game you’re playing by turning off unrelated apps in the background.
Here’s how you activate Game Mode
- Press the Start button.
- Type Settings in your search box, and open the Settings app when it appears.
- On the left side menu, find Gaming and click on it.
- Select the Game Mode section.
- Turn Game Mode on.
Minimum and recommended specs for VALORANT
While dropping various aspects to their lowest settings can help your FPS, it could also help you run the game better overall if your PC’s guts aren’t the latest and greatest. With that in mind, here are both the minimum and recommended specs for playing VALORANT as well as PC hardware recommendations.
Minimum
- 30 frames per second
- CPU: Intel i3-370M
- GPU: Intel HD 3000
Recommended
- 60 frames per second
- CPU: Intel i3-4150
- GPU: Geforce GT 730
PC hardware recommendations
- Windows 7/8/10/11 64-bit
- 4 GB RAM
- 1 GB of VRAM
