Valorant is a competitive shooter where frame rate and input lag matter more than visual fidelity. The engine (Unreal Engine 4) is well optimized, but default settings are not tuned for maximum performance.
Display Settings
Display Mode — Fullscreen. Not Windowed Fullscreen. True fullscreen bypasses the Windows compositor and reduces input lag.
Resolution — Native if your GPU can sustain 144+ FPS. If not, dropping to 1600x900 or 1280x720 can recover significant frames on weaker hardware.
Limit FPS — Set to your monitor's refresh rate or slightly above. Uncapped FPS can cause unnecessary GPU heat. If your monitor is 144Hz, limit to 145–160.
Graphics Quality
Material Quality — Low. No visual impact on gameplay, noticeable FPS recovery.
Texture Quality — Low or Medium. Low is fine for competitive play.
Detail Quality — Low.
UI Quality — Medium or High. This affects how clean ability effects look — worth keeping slightly higher.
Vignette — Off.
VSync — Off. Use FreeSync or G-Sync instead, not VSync.
Anti-Aliasing — MSAA 2x or FXAA. MSAA 4x costs frames for minimal visual gain at high resolutions. At 1080p, FXAA is acceptable if frames are tight.
Anisotropic Filtering — 4x. Minimal performance cost, noticeable texture improvement at oblique angles.
Improve Clarity — On. This is a sharpening filter that costs almost nothing and improves edge clarity at low settings.
Bloom — Off. Personal preference but most competitive players disable it.
Distortion — Off. Ability effects like Omen's smoke are cleaner.
Shadows — Off for maximum performance, Medium if you want some visual grounding.
What Actually Moves the Needle
The two biggest FPS gains in Valorant are:
- Material Quality to Low — consistent 10–20% FPS improvement across hardware tiers
- True Fullscreen — reduces frame time variance significantly
Everything else is incremental.
Monitor Settings for Valorant
For competitive play, prioritize low input lag mode, fast overdrive, and high refresh rate over color accuracy. Most Valorant players boost digital vibrance in the Nvidia/AMD control panel — 70–75% on Nvidia's scale makes ability effects more readable without looking oversaturated.
Community monitor presets for gaming at BestSettingsFor.com — filter by Gaming to see what other competitive players are running on your specific display.
