In this guide, you will come to know how to easily fix Sutters, FPS Drops and Input Delay in Valorant.
In your Video settings, you have to make sure that you’re in the Stats section and enable the Client FPS, GPU Render Time, Game Latency, and the Network Round Trip Time and Packet Loss indicators. These will help you figure out if the next steps have a lot of impact on the frame rate and input delay of the game.
In your General video settings, play in fullscreen mode and set the Display Resolution to your native monitor resolution. You will also want to reduce your overall resolution as a last resort to improve your overall gaming performance, but it will also reduce the visual quality.
You will need to cap your FPS to a value below the maximum FPS you can get, which is 120. In the Graphics Quality section, you have to make sure to turn vertical sync off, which will otherwise induce a lower frame rate. When this is done, make sure to close Valorant for now and search for “keyboard” in your start menu search to open up your Keyboard Properties Control Panel.
Under Speed, make sure to set the Repeat Delay to Short and the Repeat Rate to Fast. Depending on how these settings were set before, you should notice a difference in input delay when playing Valorant. The next step would be to update your peripheral drivers. To do so, search for Device Manager to open it up.
Expand your Mice and other pointing devices, Keyboards, Sound, video, game controllers, and other hardware you might be using on your PC. For each device, right-click the name and select Update Driver. On the window, click on Search automatically for drivers. Use the GeForce Experience application or the AMD Radeon software to update your graphics driver, depending on which GPU you use.
In the Drivers tab, click on Download, and automatically download and install the latest driver. Repeat this step every few months to ensure that you get the most out of your hardware. In the Home section, click on Details for Valiant. It will allow you to preview your current in-game settings and the recommended settings by the application.
These settings will be applied when clicking on Optimize, but you need to change them manually while in-game. Click on the wrench icon to access some custom settings for the game. Make sure that this slider setting is set to Performance to maximize your Performance. The last significant step in this application is hidden in your settings. Access your GeForce Experience settings, and in the General section, scroll down to enable NVIDIA Image Scaling.
NVIDIA Image Scaling can help run the game at a higher resolution. It will allow you to decrease your in-game resolution and still get a great visual experience. Play around with your resolution settings and play a bot game to see how much this improves your in-game Performance. Lastly, look at your Display Settings, right-click your desktop, and select Display settings.
On this window, make sure that the correct display is selected, and below, you can preview and set the recommended scale and resolution. Under Advanced display, make sure to use the highest refresh rate available.
