Last Updated on 1st February 2023
Every modern PC can handle Valorant with ease on relatably high fps. The main focus of players looking for the best Valorant settings is to achieve the highest FPS possible, lowest input lag and latency, and have the smoothest possible gameplay.
Apart from those settings, it’s also important to optimize your mouse, control, and sensitivity settings. I am not the most experienced Valorant player, so I will suggest you settings from Pro Valorant players.
Below I will go over everything you need to know about Valorant camera settings, controller settings, binds, graphics settings, and even sound settings to hear footsteps clearer. If you’ve played Valorant for any time, you should have released that the default settings don’t allow you to play at your best potential.
Sticking to the default settings will disadvantage you no matter how good you are. So we will improve all the settings to get you the most benefits.
Also, at the end of this post, you’ll find resources to optimize your PC to achieve higher performance, fps, less input lag, and less latency in Valorant and any other game you might be playing.
Best Valorant Settings
When it comes to the best Valorant settings, whatever you may be looking for, you will probably find it in this guide.
I will go in-depth in every important setting and give you some suggestions from my experience or from my research on the best Valorant Pro player’s settings.
Best Valorant Video / Graphics settings
One thing that no one can deny in first-person competitive games is that FPS(frames per second) is KING!
Really high FPS absolutely gives you an advantage over the rest of the players since it lets you see your opponents sooner and track their movement better in real-time, making aiming easier. That’s why most pro Valorant players are playing on at least 244fps with 244hz monitors.
For these reasons, your goal should be to adjust your graphics settings in Valorant to get the maximum FPS possible.
So, to go into Valorant’s settings, press the Esc button on your keyboard, choose Settings and navigate to the Video tab.
General
- Display Mode: Fullscreen. Display mode should be always set to full screen to have the best input lag and fps boost possible.
- Resolution: Same as monitor resolution + Highest Hz possible. For most players, you just want to go with the native resolution of your monitor and the highest refresh rate possible.
- Monitor: Choose the monitor you want Valorant to be displayed.(If you have more than one)
- Aspect Ratio Method: Letterbox
- Limit FPS on Battery: Off
- Limit FPS in Menu: On, set it to your monitor’s refresh rate.
- Limit FPS in Background: On, 30 or 60.
- Limit FPS Always: Off, we want to avoid limiting our FPS as much as possible.
Graphics Quality
Next, we have the graphics quality tab. I could just say set everything as low as possible to get the highest frame rates, however there are some important settings in this section that you should be aware of.
- Multithreaded Rendering: Always turned on, unless you know what you are doing.
The next 4 settings should be set to low as there is no competitive benefit to increasing these settings. They will only lower your fps.
- Material Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low
- Detail Quality: Low
- UI Quality: Low
- Vignette: Off, you don’t want this setting enabled since it creates a dark border on the edge of your screen and lowers your FPS.
- Vsync: Always off, no questions asked.
- Anti-Aliasing: Off, makes corners and edges of objects look sharper, but we are aiming for the maximum FPS possible.
- Anisotropic-Filtering: x1 for most of you, you can test it depending to your hardware. For the best frames per second set it to one. Anisotropic filtering increases ground and textures details and has a noticable impact on performance.
- Improve Clarity: Enabled, this actually is one of the only settings that I recommend enabling in Valorant. Improve Clarity setting gives you a clearer picture in-game by increasing the contrast in the mid-tones and creating shadows or darkness in specific areas to give contrast. If you are on a really low-end computer, you can turn this off.
- Bloom: Disabled. Gives brightenss to objects and makes it harder to track enemies.
- Distortion: Disabled. Distorts things behind explosions, orbs, and few agent abilities. Makes it difficult to spot enemies while also lowering your FPS.
- First Person shadows: Disabled. Does not affect enemies shadows, it only affect your shadow and your weapons shadows. You don’t need this, just turn it off.
Stats
In this tab you can turn on stats that will appear on the top left part of your screen in Valorant.
- Client FPS: Text only. You can see what your FPS are in game.
- Server Tick Rate: Hide
- Total Frame Time: Hide
- Idle Time: Hide
- CPU (Game) Time: Hide
- CPU (Render) Time: Hide
- CPU (RHI) Time: Hide
- Network Round Trip Time: Text only if you feel like you are having high ping.
- Packet Loss: Text only if you feel like you are having high ping.
Best Valorant Sound/Audio settings
Sound effects don’t get the needed attention almost in any game. But especially on shooter games, audio settings play a crucial part in your gameplay. You want the absolute best sound settings to hear every footstep, gunfire, or skill spelled in-game to take fast and proper decisions in-game.
Sounds
- Master Volume: 100%
- Sound Effects Volume: 100%
- Voice-over Volume: 100%
- Video Volume: 100%
- All Music Master Volume: 50%
- Menu and Lobby Music Volume: Off
- Agent Select Music Volume: Off
- VOIP Ducks Music: Enabled
- Mute Music When Game Window Out of Focus: Off
- Speaker Configuration: Stereo
- Enable HRTF: Test it. (Headphone users)
Windows setting ( Footsteps PRO TIP ) !
Critical Windows setting. After this, you will hear footsteps and everything else in the game clearer and better.
Navigate to your Windows search bar and type “change system sounds”, and click on the option available.
Navigate to the Playback tab and right-click on your Headphones / Speakers and click on properties.
Now, go to the Enhancements tab, and tick the option Loudness Equalization. Click Apply and Ok.
Let me know if this helped you below in the comments please!
Best Pro Valorant Crosshair settings
Probably the most wanted settings that people are looking for. Below you can find an explanation for each Valorant Chrosshair tab setting and recommendations for the best Crosshair settings by Pro players.
Crosshair Color
When choosing your Crosshair Color, you have to keep in mind that it should stand out from the background to help you aim better.
Most used colors by Pro Valorant Players are Green, White, and Cyan.
Outlines
Outlines will give every section of your crosshair a black edge. You can customize the opacity and thickness of this edge as you desire.
Center Dot
Choose whether or not to have a center dot in your crosshair.
Fade Crosshair with Firing Error
The top part of your crosshair will dissolve if you continuously shoot with an automatic weapon. Once you stop shooting, the line will immediately return.
Show Spectated Player’s Crosshair
This setting allows you to see how other players have set up their own crosshairs when you spectate their game.
Inner Lines & Outer Lines
Two sets of lines to test around with your crosshair. You can adjust their opacity, length, thickness, and distance from the middle of the crosshair and adjust their reaction to movement or/and shooting.
Crosshair settings from the top pro Valorant players.
Tenz Valorant Crosshair settings
| Color: Cyan | Outlines: Off |
| Center Dot: Off | Fade / Movement / Firing Error: Off / Off / Off |
| Inner Lines: 1 / 4 / 2 / 2 | Outer Lines: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 |
Shroud Valorant Crosshair settings
| Color: Cyan | Outlines: On / 1 / 1 |
| Center Dot: Off | Fade / Movement / Firing Error: Off / Off / Off |
| Inner Lines: 1 / 8 / 2 / 5 | Outer Lines: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 |
Aceu Valorant Crosshair settings
| Color: White | Outlines: Off |
| Center Dot: Off | Fade / Movement / Firing Error: Off / Off / Off |
| Inner Lines: 1 / 3 / 1 / 1 | Outer Lines: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 |
Scream Valorant Crosshair settings
| Color: Blue | Outlines: On / 1 / 1 |
| Center Dot: Off | Fade / Movement / Firing Error: Off / Off / Off |
| Inner Lines: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 | Outer Lines: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 |
Hiko Valorant Crosshair settings
| Color: Green | Outlines: On / 1 / 1 |
| Center Dot: Off | Fade / Movement / Firing Error: Off / Off / On |
| Inner Lines: 1 / 2 / 1 / 0 | Outer Lines: 1 / 0 / 4 / 2 |
Wardell Valorant Crosshair settings
| Color: Cyan | Outlines: Off / 0 / 0 |
| Center Dot: Off | Fade / Movement / Firing Error: Off / Off / Off |
| Inner Lines: 1 / 4 / 2 / 2 | Outer Lines: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 |
Subroza Valorant Crosshair settings
| Color: White | Outlines: On / 1 / 1 |
| Center Dot: Off | Fade / Movement / Firing Error: Off / Off / Off |
| Inner Lines: 1 / 2 / 1 / 3 | Outer Lines: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 |
Best Pro Valorant Sensitivity settings
Below you will find the most common sensitivity settings that are being used by the top pro Valorant players.
TenZ Valorant Sensitivity settings – LGPROX
| DPI: 800 | eDPI: 388 |
| Sensitivity: 0.485 | HZ: 1000 |
| Scoped Sensitivity M.: 1 | Windows Sensitivity: 6 |
Shroud Valorant Sensitivity settings – LGPROX
| DPI: 450 | eDPI: 351 |
| Sensitivity: 0.78 | HZ: 1000 |
| Scoped Sensitivity M.: 1 | Windows Sensitivity: 6 |
Aceu Valorant Sensitivity settings – Ultralight 2
| DPI: 800 | eDPI: 376 |
| Sensitivity: 0.47 | HZ: 500 |
| Scoped Sensitivity M.: 1 | Windows Sensitivity: 6 |
Scream Valorant Sensitivity settings – Ultralight 2
| DPI: 400 | eDPI: 314 |
| Sensitivity: 0.785 | HZ: 1000 |
| Scoped Sensitivity M.: 1 | Windows Sensitivity: 6 |
Hiko Valorant Sensitivity settings – Glorious GM
| DPI: 1600 | eDPI: 576 |
| Sensitivity: 0.36 | HZ: 1000 |
| Scoped Sensitivity M.: 1 | Windows Sensitivity: 6 |
Wardell Valorant Sensitivity settings – LGPROX
| DPI: 400 | eDPI: 261 |
| Sensitivity: 0.653 | HZ: 500 |
| Scoped Sensitivity M.: 1 | Windows Sensitivity: 6 |
Subroza Valorant Sensitivity settings – LGGPROX
| DPI: 800 | eDPI: 221.6 |
| Sensitivity: 0.277 | HZ: 1000 |
| Scoped Sensitivity M.: 1 | Windows Sensitivity: 7 |
Optimize your PC
Now assuming you applied the above settings and are still struggling with your FPS being low or unstable, I have a few guides to help you out.
- Windows 11 Ultimate Optimization Guide
- Best NVIDIA Control Panel Settings
- Best AMD Radeon Settings
- Debloat Windows 10
- Reduce & Stabilize your Ping
- Unpark your CPU cores
Enhance your gaming experience
If, after following this guide, you still can’t optimize Valorant or you feel like your PC is underperforming, you can book a PC Optimization appointment with me, and I will be more than happy to help you out and solve all your problems and dramatically improve your pc performance.
Conclusion
Valorant is not a resource-hungry game. Despite that, we always want to make sure that everything is set correctly, and we are taking advantage of every little thing that we can. The settings above should be enough to give you a starting point on creating the best Valorant settings configuration for yourself.
