While Valorant performs well on many gaming PCs, that doesn’t mean you can mail it in when choosing your Valorant graphics settings. Our guide to the best Valorant graphics settings helps you reach at least 144 FPS on most gaming rights, reduces latency, and gives you eye candy where it matters. Let’s dive in.
Update graphics drivers
Before you’re ready to tinker with your Valorant video settings, updating your graphics drivers is bestto ensure they are up to date. Using outdated graphics drivers can occasionally cause problems with FPS and crashes.
Best Valorant graphics settings (high-end gaming PCs)
Most mid-range gaming PCs and higher will run Valorant at extremely high FPS. In fact, mid-range gaming PCs released in 2023 can easily run Valorant at 500+ FPS, far higher than most gaming monitor refresh rates. But you need to know the best settings for Valorant to balance securing high FPS with visual quality where it matters most in the game.
General
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: Select 1920×1080 for 1080p or 2560×1440 for 2k, select your monitor refresh rate
- Monitor: Select your monitor
- Aspect Ratio Mode: Not applicable since it’s only used when picking a different aspect ratio than your monitor
- Limit FPS on Battery: On
- Max FPS on Battery: 60
- Limit FPS in Menus: On
- Max FPS in Menus: 60
- Limit FPS in Background: On
- Max FPS in Background: 30
- Limit FPS always: Off
- Max FPS always: Not applicable since we’re turning off Limit FPS Always for unlimited FPS
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
Resolution is a critical graphics setting that has a large impact on performance. For the best results, we recommend following the settings pros use. The below chart details the resolution settings pick rates for pros we track on Setup.gg.
Valorant pro resolution pick rates
Graphics quality
- Multithreaded Rendering: On
- Material Quality: Med
- Texture Quality: Med
- Detail Quality: Med
- UI Quality: Med
- 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
The main differences between our suggested high-end and low-end Valorant graphics settings are allowing for higher resolution, setting NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency to On + Boost, enabling Multithreaded Rendering, and updating most “Quality” settings to Med.
On a high-end gaming PC, you may still have some CPU and GPU headroom to bump up your Valorant graphics settings while retaining far above 144 FPS.
Best Valorant graphics settings (low-end gaming PCs)
Our lineup of the best Valorant settings for low-end PCs can run Valorant at competitively high FPS while also reducing latency. This way, you have a competitive advantage in targeting enemies fast without dropping frames.
General
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: Select 1920×1080, select your monitor refresh rate
- Monitor: Select your monitor
- Aspect Ratio Mode: Not applicable since it’s only used when picking a different aspect ratio than your monitor
- Limit FPS on Battery: On
- Max FPS on Battery: 60
- Limit FPS in Menus: On
- Max FPS in Menus: 60
- Limit FPS in Background: On
- Max FPS in Background: 30
- Limit FPS always: Off
- Max FPS always: Not applicable since we’re turning off Limit FPS Always for unlimited FPS
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On
Graphics quality
- Multithreaded Rendering: Off unless you have 8GB RAM, 2GB VRAM, and a CPU with at least 8 cores.
- 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
Pro tip
Display your FPS and latency in Valorant by going to the Stats menu within the Video settings tab. Select Text Only in the Performance section to display your current FPS. Do the same for Game Latency (CPU) in the Input Latency section.
Let’s review some of the reasons behind our lineup of Valorant video settings.
It’s important to also set NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency to On to reduce latency in Valorant, which can impact the timing between when a shot is fired and clicking your mouse.
Material Quality, Texture Quality, and Detail Quality are all set to Low to prioritize FPS over visuals.
While other Valorant graphics settings can impact FPS and latency, these core settings are good items to focus on to start.
Valorant system requirements
We’d suggest reviewing Valorant’s system requirements to get a feel for where your gaming PC stands before adjusting your graphics settings. If your PC matches the high-end system requirements you should be able to utilize our high-end settings out of the box to achieve high FPS.
If you have a gaming PC that matches the minimum or recommended specs, we’d suggest starting with our low-end Valorant settings and adjusting the most critical Valorant settings (outlined below) upward from there.
| Specs | OS | CPU | RAM | VRAM | GPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Windows 7, 8, or 10 64-bit | Intel Core 2 Duo E8400,AMD Athlon 200GE | 4GB | N/A | Intel HD 4000,AMD Radeon R5 200 |
| Recommended | Windows 7, 8, or 10 64-bit | Intel Core i3-4150,AMD Ryzen 3 1200 | 4GB | 1024MB | NVIDIA GT 730,AMD Radeon R7 240 |
| High-end | Windows 7, 8, or 10 64-bit | Intel Core i5-9400F,AMD Ryzen 5 2600x | 4GB | 1GB | NVIDIA GTX 1050ti,AMD R7 370 |
Important Valorant settings
You can change over 25 Valorant video settings to customize your experience. But only a handful pack in a big FPS and latency punch. For players wanting to increase FPS the most and decrease latency, we’d suggest tinkering with the below options to find the best Valorant video settings for you.
Biggest impacts on FPS and latency
- Display mode
- Resolution
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency
- Multithreaded rendering
- Material quality
- Texture quality
- Detail quality
Comparing the quality of our Valorant graphics settings
Valorant isn’t designed with realism in mind. Accordingly, the performance load on many gaming PCs is low since details don’t need to mimic real life. This means that Valorant can render very high FPS. Increasing the visuals is mostly eye candy and doing so doesn’t offer competitive advantages, such as making it easier to click heads faster.
We think it’s best to leave the decision to you about how much eye candy you’d like in Valorant. To help, we’ve included a side-by-side comparison of Valorant scenes below using the best Valorant graphics settings.
Along with our low-end and high-end video settings, we’ve added a third “ultra” option not covered in this guide. Ultra turns all video settings to High and enables other rendering graphics settings, like Bloom and Cast Shadows.
How to test your Valorant video settings
Tinkering to find the best video settings is a good approach, but most Valorant gameplay modes aren’t suitable since you’ll need to focus on the FPS counter and tweaking settings versus clicking heads. Choosing Deathmatch is a good mode to select to see how your video settings hold up in real gameplay.
Deathmatch is a quick free-for-all style that’s good for practicing and adjusting your settings with little risk.
Once in the game, you can hit Esc at any point to access the settings menu and tweak your Valorant video settings.
Jumping into Open Range Practice mode is another option to consider. It’s fast to load up the practice range. But you won’t get the same live gameplay experience that Deathmatch offers. Your FPS can differ between the two game modes.
