VALORANT BEST SETTINGS Benchmark - YouTube

let's get these benchmarks underway up first we have multi-threaded

rendering turning this on allows valorent to use all cores (and threads)

of your cpu if set to off it will only use the first core (first few threads)

when we benchmark the options we notice a significant drop in fps

as expected the drop ranges from about 18 to 22 percent and will certainly be

much higher on older cpus valorent should really just remove the ability to

turn the setting off since there is no use for it whatsoever

moving on to material quality taking a look at the actual difference

in render quality we can notice a very little difference at

all between high and medium setting we also notice a clear downgrade

for the low setting this certainly doesn't justify using the high setting

over medium when we can boost four percent fps using

the medium setting using the low setting provides another

four percent fps boost while also removing some of the shadows

in darker corners which is a good thing as a result low is

going to be the recommended setting here for better vision in dark corners and a

significant fps boost moving on to texture quality we see no

visual differences between the settings we see no difference in fps i've also

cross-checked with forcing the setting via nvidia

and the results are still the same

this setting changes nothing so we shall set it to

medium for no reason at all moving on we have detail quality

we start to notice some bigger differences here high setting has

additional cosmetics like this foliage here

and extra texture detail below the window over here

these extra details come at the cost of seven percent to our fps performance

comparing medium and low settings we see no visual difference

and as expected there is no significant difference in fps between the two either

here we once again notice the texture differences on the far

wall

we will go over recommended setting of medium here as the seven percent fps

increase is too big to pass up for just some scattered wall texture upgrades

if you're well above your monitor's refresh rate and you have the fps to

spare this will be one of the settings you

might want to bump up to high next up we have ui quality there is

nothing to compare here this setting has no effect on in-game

visuals or fps at all

so let's take a look at what exactly does the setting do

if we bring up our menu and change the ui quality setting we notice the low

setting gives the menu an opaque background with

almost zero transparency moving to medium quality we gained some

background transparency and the ability to still see

some of our game while in the menus going higher to the high setting

adds some blur effect visuals to the background

it is worth noting that holding tab to look at the scoreboard during gameplay

is not affected by the setting at all given that there is no performance hit

here at all during gameplay we will set this to medium as that

offers us the best visuals for competitive play

in the off chance that you are changing settings mid-round

up next we have vignette vignette has no real effect on fps performance at all

the visual effect added to the game by turning this feature on

is a very minor shade at the top and bottom of the screen

given there is no real benefit to this option other than making us feel

slightly more sleepy we're gonna recommend setting this to off

next up we have v-sync normally we'd recommend setting this to off but we

won't just skip benchmarking this setting

as there is some things we can measure here taking a look at the first two

tests we have a comparison between a 240 fps

limit set via nvidia control panel versus the same limit set via valorents

menu as is often the case in most games we

notice a much cleaner performance with less noise if we use nvidia control

panel instead of the game in order to limit

fps if we compare the v-sync option the same way

we see no real difference between using it via nvidia control panel or using the

valorent in-game menu

in summary if you're experiencing tearing then it's worth giving vsync a

try as it will eliminate tearing but if you

don't need v-sync i strongly recommend setting this to off

and taking full advantage of higher frame rates

up next is a very interesting one anti-aliasing

let's start with the performance differences msaa

2x gives a seven to eight percent fps drop

and msaa 4x adds an additional five percent fps drop

fx aaa provides a relatively low performance hit of only three to four

percent in fps to figure out the best settings we need

to compare the visual differences here this first still image here shows how

the fxaa settings shines by providing the

crispest image of the knife edge the image improvement provided by msaa 2

and 4x seem rather minuscule in this next test

we will take a look at the performance of these settings during movement

here we notice fxaa provide worse flickering

of texture edges and the worst clarity when reading text

coincidentally this is also where msaa 2 and 4x

really shine msaa 2x reduces some of the slickering

but forex almost completely eliminates it

given that valorent is a third-person shooter we can safely exclude fxaa as a

choice since it will degrade visuals and

performance unless you're standing still camping a spot msaa 2 and 4x provide

substantial visual improvements that will help us see more clearly especially

when trying to accurately aim at long distances but this

improvement comes at a reasonable fps cost if your fps is high

enough that you can run msaa 4x and take the 12

to 13 fps hit then it is highly recommended as

it provides a necessary improvement for aiming clarity

especially at long ranges however if your fps is cause for concern

or you're not reaching your monitor's refresh rate then you might want to

consider msaa 2x at the cost of only seven to eight percent fps drop up next

we shall take a closer look at anisotropic

filtering visually we see a difference of

absolutely nothing excluding the fact that 2x seems to always be a couple of

frames lower than expected even after repeat tests

the trend seems to be a slow linear fps drop totaling one percent fps from 1x to

16x but the real question here is what does

anisotropic filtering actually do for us i'm glad you asked

because it's a subtle one taking a look at this still image

reveals an improvement in crispness of the neon lights on this

vandal from 1x to 4x unfortunately there is no visual

improvement between 8x and 16x making 4x the clear and uncontested

winner here next up we have improved clarity this is

the most interesting and controversial setting taking a look

at the fps performance we see a substantial drop in fps

ranging from 4 to 11 depending on what is being rendered

so what do we get in return for this performance drop

one would expect an improved visual clarity as the name implies

unfortunately if we take a still image and zoom in to see this controversial

clarity we end up seeing no difference

to further verify this result we set up a camera on a tripod and took still

images to compare zooming in on these images again shows

no visual improvement finally busting the myth that improving

clarity actually improves clarity now we can confidently set this one to

off knowing we are gaining a lot of fps and losing

nothing in return moving on to bloom we see there is definitely a noticeable

fps drop it seems to range from one to two

percent fps so how does bloom actually affect us

taking a look at this still here we see the bloom effect creating a brightness

effect on the vandals neon trim even though

bloom on might make the game look slightly more

realistic the truth is it only gets in the way of clearer vision

we can confidently set this one to off and save that extra one to two percent

next up is distortion the pattern is a very slight fps drop when turned on

which is usually below one percent difference so what does distortion

actually do likely distort some visual elements of

the game but whatever they are we struggle to find them we can

confidently set those on to off for the extra couple of frames

and possibly get rid of some subtle distorting up next we have

first person shadows lowering our fps between

two to three point five percent for this one we can only hope for something in

return unfortunately this setting has no effect

on the game world and even more unfortunately the character models in

this game have no ground shadows so what does first person shadows

actually do it adds shadows and lighting effects to our hands and firearm

which you need to pay special attention to in order to even notice

we're going to recommend off for the setting as it is not needed and the 3.5

fps is a more welcome boost to our game before we wrap this one up there's one

more benchmark i'd like to do since i know lots of us prefer to game

in windowed borderless mode so we can watch youtube or twitch during

those lengthy warm-up periods without doubt as expected we see a drop

in performance in the range of three to four percent

fps

if you'd like to further increase your valorem performance i have another video

on improving performance through windows settings if this video

helped you at all a sub would be amazing thank you and i wish you all many happy

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