Optimize Valorant: your setup, one setting at a time

What this section covers

To optimize Valorant, you adjust several places: Windows, the game itself, your graphics card driver along with your monitor, and the hardware that carries it all. This section gathers them one setting at a time, with the value to use and the reason for it, and for advanced settings how to undo it.

The promise stays measured. A setting can help your PC hold more FPS or react faster, but the effect depends on your machine. The pages tell you what an official source states, what to test on your own PC, and where the risk becomes real. Nothing here promises you a rank.

How to choose where to start

Start from the problem you feel, not from the longest list.

• Windows misbehaves, or you want to clean up the system: open the Windows settings for Valorant.
• The game stutters or the input lag bothers you in the video options: open the Valorant graphics settings, NVIDIA Reflex included.
• You want to know what to do about the driver, the NVIDIA or AMD panel, or your monitor's refresh rate: open the graphics card and monitor settings.
• You wonder whether your PC is enough, or whether a part needs replacing: open the PC requirements and hardware.

If you hesitate, begin with the game: its options change in a few clicks and undo as quickly.

The three levels of settings

Every setting on the child pages carries a level, written in the text.

• Essential: no risk, to apply or check first. You can apply it without a second thought.
• Worth testing: reversible, but the effect changes from one machine to the next. You set it, you compare, you keep it or cancel it.
• Advanced (experienced players): the risk is real and can be recovered with precautions. Each setting at this level comes with what it does, the measured gain, the risks and how to undo it. When no reliable measurement exists, the page says so in plain words.

Read the level before you touch anything. A badly done advanced setting can stop Valorant from starting, and the page concerned says so plainly.

Measure before and after

Without a baseline, you cannot tell whether a setting helped or whether you talked yourself into it. For a Valorant or Windows setting, take that baseline in game: replay the same situation before and after. The reaction time test has 5 trials: it tracks your reaction from week to week, but it runs in your browser and does not measure in-game settings.

Run the same test again later, with nothing else modified: it helps you follow your reaction over time, it does not measure Valorant's internal settings. Your monitor, mouse and browser add their own delay to the result, so compare your tests on the same device, never from one machine to another.

For mouse sensitivity, which belongs to Windows and the game at once, use the Sensitivity Finder.

What these settings do not change

No setting replaces training. A better tuned PC removes obstacles, it does not place your crosshair for you and it does not win you a rank. The gain depends on your hardware: on a machine that is already smooth, it will be small, and that is normal.

Road2Radiant measures and trains mechanical aim, it does not tune your PC for you. These pages explain, and you decide.

Pick a page, apply one setting, judge it in game, then move to the next. To follow your aim over time, create your account, it is free.