EVERY VALORANT Graphics Quality Setting Explained

Every VALORANT Graphics Quality setting explained in under ten minutes. Use the chapter markers below if you want to quickly reference individual settings.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:23 Material Quality
01:08 Texture Quality
01:36 Detail Quality
02:27 UI Quality
02:50 Vignette
03:11 VSync
03:36 Anti-Aliasing
04:05 Anisotropic Filtering
04:36 Improve Clarity
05:06 Experimental Sharpening
05:31 Bloom
05:50 Distortion
06:16 Cast Shadows
06:48 Multithreaded Rendering
07:24 Outro
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[@BehradDavoudi]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this. there is so much misinformation about settings on the internet and its really good to have the expert himself explain them. i will refer many people to this video.

[@hammer2247]

Me too

[@Ledzz]

I love how you gave in game examples of everything so I actually know the differences because most of the time I toggle my settings to random things because I have no clue what differences they make looool

[@karen-qw7fw]

tysm this is so well explained and organized!! appreciate your work!!!!

[@lawlesscs]

Loved the video Nu! I think it would be cool to see a deeper dive into how NVIDIA Reflex works within VALORANT, and what the different options do.

[@blackmanwhitesuit]

This was a good tutorial for literally EVERY game. It was well divided into chapters, the explanation was clear and you used examples to demonstrate the changes very clearly (I think the only one I didn't understand was Anisotropic Filtering, but only because I didn't see the difference). I appreciated this very much for tuning my system for FPS and graphics. Thank you.

[@JoPsyph]

Brilliant video! I wanted to know which settings were cpu and GPU bound and you explained just that! Thanks!

[@michelbrittomv]

really digging ur channel man, nice content.

[@Lmoooooooo]

This kind of content is very interesting ! We want more tech stuff and details on valorant ! keep it up

[@gordonho5986]

exactly what I was looking for, very concise too, Cheers mate!

[@paploo968]

Really good video, Nu! Thanks 🙏🏼

[@spaghettienjoyer9685]

thank you for the vid! super helpful and very well made.

[@Drialux]

Thank you, it feels like I have more control over my settings now, in so short time, perfect!

[@SaifDbz]

This was very well made video... Thanks valor leaks for recommending this video... and please deep dive into latency differences too 😊

[@shreyassingh8455]

Thanks for this really needed...very well done 🔥🔥🔥

[@shreyassingh8455]

Input latency would be great choice for new video imo

[@kumiho1729]

Do a deeper dive on input latency! I'm obsessed with minimizing latency even more than maximizing fps.

[@ReneHoffmann194]

He just did :D

[@jurillacsibongat4630]

me using amd gpu :D

[@joshuab0y]

great vid, the multithreaded rendering part is still a little confusing but i guess i'll have to test on my machine

[@cristiancazares]

The best Spike Rusher does it again! Been following you on Twitter for a while and I just find out you have this channel. It is soooo ice, loved the Unreal Tutorials! I still more a Unity guy myself. I would love to see that idea about "how to tune the machine"! :D

[@Hyydrotoo]

Please more videos like this! Getting this kind of information from official sources is suuuuper interesting.

[@ValorantAscended]

Great video Nu!

[@MohdBastaki90]

MASSIVE thanks for this video!

[@TPOID]

Great Video and very well explained! I would love a video about input lag (or is it latency?)

[@Bigolbktofwtr]

Awesome video nu!

[@You-Same]

holy crap im so happy i ran into your channel lol im a nerd when it comes to settings :D

[@GreenSkyGaming]

That's so need to know what's really happen under the hood in Valorant. A video about input latency will really interessting!

[@TimmyCashBeats]

Great video, that's a good idea to make a video about how to make the most out of the computer to boost fps, because a lot of people do not even know about some GPU settings that do a lot of impact in the game. Peace ✌🏻

[@arminazizi8769]

that was really helpful thank you :)

[@realbuali2280]

Amazing informative video, I would like to know more about input latency next video 😁

[@JAYWAL]

Great video! I would like to see videos on both of your suggestions!

[@Boneman9000]

Leaving a comment for the algorithm. Gotta get this out there. Good stuff.

[@SatchelJump]

probably the most important setting video out there hope every valorant player sees this

[@montypython3014]

thank you bro you should def do a deep dive on input latency

[@NuMakesGames]

ULTIMATE GUIDE to Reducing System Latency in VALORANT (2022) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGXbY6CupLx6jck

[@trungkeeper4312]

this video is good, hope u get more views

[@dungtien4375]

very informative video bro

[@alb1reo]

This is the best video on graphics settings

[@_._shinonome_._]

Improve clarity seems to be increasing the dynamic range of the in game renderer

[@deanyuan1812]

Thanks!

[@spongebobmarley7368]

any chance valorant will ever have that beautiful look it had in the project A announcement trailer? you could separate the enhanced lights and shadows settings from the material quality, this way we can let everything else on low but having those cool lights and shades improvements

[@adamdarlington2779]

Nice guide :)

[@21repierre]

Nice video 👍🏻

[@ParaskevasAr]

Is it possible for a TAA option to get added at some point? its always my preferred AA option but its not avaliable in valorant

[@CloutFPS]

I’d like a deep dive into network buffering. Current lowest server is 47 to Oregon. I usually play central (80 both) and i feel like network buffering on moderate sometimes makes the game feel better and sometimes it does not

[@javierb623]

great work

[@UmaPessoaQualquer9]

Great video

[@sodai3440]

Now i know how to pronounce vignette and anisotropic, thank you !

[@slapq5533]

love bro ❤️

[@infected_jcool113]

I still don’t know what too do in my place people look like 3 Pixels far so I can’t hit head shots easily but close is fine I have every on low or off because I have a low end pc but I will turn something up if it fixes my issue what is it?

[@angrynerd2103]

Hello, I am curious, I know that multithreaded rendering is limited to cpus with 8 cores or more. This includes physical and virtual. personally I play on a 6 core no smt r5 3500. this means that while in many cases my cpu is faster than some of the cpus that do support multithreaded rendering, I am still unable to toggle it myself. is there any chance this will open up to 6 core cpus? would there be a benefit without having those 2 extra cores even though its faster as a whole? could there be a way to bypass those requirements for testing purposes? Thanks in advance!

[@ChynChin]

nice video very usefull

[@mohammedahmad1532]

Great video. I had a question tho. How is VALORANT able to switch between settings without requiring a game restart?

[@RicardoMilosGachi]

Which settings should I put higher than on (all very low) If I'm CPU bottlnecked? Only 'Improve Clarity' and 'Image Sharpening'?

[@iplaybedwrs4500]

do I need to have bloom enabled for experimental sharpening to work? because thats what ive heard from other ppl.

[@qazweriopkoilj]

Awesome video, very helpful

[@antiqash7558]

sir thank you😍😍😍😍👌👌👌👌👌👌👍👍❤❤❤❤

[@SavageSoul100]

please do a video on how to optimize pc for valorant to reduce inpu latency/improve fps. There is a lot of snake oil out there. If you could guide us it would be amazing.

[@kamadoshonen9716]

I got draw distance problem in valorant (teleporter/buildings on the range is not visible from afar), it appears similar to texture popping only when close to the objects. How to fix this?

[@nestenpyse]

Hey, adding some lore ipsec - this will most likely be POSITIVE and OMG!!!! YES, this is likable AND SHOULD BE SHARED

[@DizNutsTV]

nice video. what cpu do you use and you have so much fps.?

[@NuMakesGames]

This was recorded on a Ryzen 5900x

[@theflyingwhale5778]

1. Does bloom impact much (I get 30~ fps because I used a laptop) 2. Does bloom affect enemy line (red, purple & yellow)

[@jishan2521]

Ability breakdown next king?

[@manaal8404]

thx

[@7r1pp13]

When you mean CPU bound does it mean in layman's term that you have a weaker CPU or bottlenecked CPU?

[@yDkayOfficial]

Nice.

[@magicswedin]

This is great

[@nestenpyse]

Why am I surprised you "only" have 6K subs when you actually create something worthwhile .... This is a very good example of a youtuber that SHOULD get more attention

[@Dbzq9]

What the difference between MSAA 4x and FXAA for Anti-Aliasing?

[@AG-ld6rv]

I'd check out a video about different types of AA (no need to be specific to Valorant as these techniques do the same thing in all games). Search something like "FXAA vs MSAA" into KZbin. There are several good videos on all the types and what they each do. A quick, high-level overview is that AA won't be as important the higher your resolution is (e.g. 4k and sometimes even 1080p). Load the game up to see if you can see jagged edges on any edge by moving your crosshair like he did near an edge. You might want to keep it off as AA lowers FPS, especially if you don't have a good computer. The benefit of stable, high FPS far outweighs jaggies on edges being removed. If you have the PC for it, MSAA does some intensive calculations to remove jaggies - MS stands for "multisampling". It samples the scene multiple times to average the jaggies out. FXAA is an NVIDIA technology to approximate MSAA but with less impact to FPS. When I researched it, FXAA and its algorithm can sometimes add what looks like motion blur when moving your screen fast. Consult a video for more details on the actual algorithms. They come from signal processing.

[@Dbzq9]

@@AG-ld6rv Thanks

[@Bittexu]

Turn everything on low / off for the ultimate roblox experience! Actually good video tho thanks Nu :)

[@h4n679]

my sovereign mashal purple version look so weird you know how to fix ?

[@RSM_edits]

bro got that brimstone voice

[@joeyjensen6460]

NO WAY! I just refrinced this video to tune my settings and watching the Dev update (posted 5/21/24 ) ARE YOU THE GUY TALKING ABOUT THE REPLAY SYSTEM?? @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="640">10:40</a>?!?!??

[@NuMakesGames]

Yep!

[@joeyjensen6460]

@@NuMakesGames so cool! I saw it was the same haircut and similar voice etc so I thought it was you! Great video and great job on the replay system so far. I speak for everyone when saying we want it but we want it right. Thanks again!

[@wrath2030]

the multithreaded rendering doesnt show for me how do i fix?

[@envyy506]

good video

[@Kinetica_tm]

Give this man an Oscar

[@bictor-03]

Experimental sharpening works with bloom

[@thefreshsupermarket1656]

very cool

[@Ledzz]

Sheesh now I know what to have on/off

[@j99dude-]

question about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="440">7:20</a>. already have multithreaded rendering on, i assume it is greyed out or not displayed as an option if your hardware does not support it?

[@NuMakesGames]

Yeah. It won’t show up if your machine doesn’t support it.

[@j99dude-]

​@@NuMakesGames thanks; thought so, but just wanted to confirm. also do any graphics settings impact the size/borders of smokes? i used to play on all high settings, and swapped to all low settings and i swear the borders are a tiny bit smaller, but i could be wrong. either way, i feel like visibility is much better on low in comparison to high, but it could just be me.

[@apenasluan3661]

can u make a different content? For example, explain de competitive tiers and matchmaking based on this inside unreal engine i think it's a great relevant game programming content

[@Hamza-rn4kj]

cant valorant add no texture mode to give it that really simplistic look and massive increase of fps?

[@xornedge8204]

Thanks bro. Now my game looks better(material quality High and Enhance clarity off)

[@oguzhanylmazer2479]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="408">06:48</a> I have a Ryzen 5 3600 and a GTX 750 Ti 1 GB, I read that my CPU supports multithreaded rendering as it has 12 threads but because my GPU has 1 GB of VRAM I can't enable Multithreaded Rendering. Does this option really need more than 2 GB of VRAM or does the game just doesn't show this option to GPU's with low VRAM as they are generally weaker? GTX 750 Ti is weak for todays standards thats for sure but for Valorant I think it is adequate. So maybe in the future it can be enabled for users like me? =)

[@ismailalighaswala2095]

If you consider upgrading you can you can buy GTX 1050

[@WendlerTV]

I likd and subscrib’d

[@user-vx8ej2ep1j]

SHEEESH

[@Mylca]

Shorty with rifle crosshair doesn't exist, it can't hurt you. Shorty with rifle crosshair: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="414">6:54</a>

[@lomatsh2168]

HEY I HAVE I39TH GEN WITH 1650 GRAPHICS CARD 4GB AND 18GB RAM WITH 128GB SSD STILL I FACE NOT SMOOTH PERFOMANCE ON VALORANT WITH LOW SETTINGS TOO AND I HAVE SLUTTER AND LAGG EHAT TO DO '

[@HaoVAL]

Thanks for this but I'll probably still use everything on low and get 50 fps 😳

[@antoniolyles5531]

ive always wondered why the texture setting did nothing for me lol

[@SudhuJ]

This is going to be extremely helpful for my friends who argue that gun skins improve FPS.

[@autistick1d]

skins = skill

[@littlenassyecks8462]

shotgun with the regular non citclr crosshair near the end?

[@Shiick]

That's a crosshair setting! You have to turn "Use advanced options" in crosshair options. Then in the "Primary" tab, you can turn on "Override All Primary Crosshairs With My Primary Crosshair". That's how it's done. :)

[@littlenassyecks8462]

@@Shiick tysm! always wanted this, diddnt realize it was already in the game

[@Jcob91]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="210">3:30</a> but capping framerate doesn't remove tearing. shouldn't you know this already?

[@jonathangolden231]

I want that shirt

[@mikesimmerman4457]

It does help with fps low graphics gives you more stable fps Higher graphics will make you have more choppy fps

[@christianlai9726]

I can't seem to find the GPU render time stat in my settings... is my game just broken or something lol

[@NuMakesGames]

It only works with Nvidia GPUs

[@christianlai9726]

@@NuMakesGames oooOooo that makes sense, thanks. So should I still use the stats to determine GPU/cpu bounded-ness despite not having GPU render time stat?

[@emadyoesf]

Okay. But Riot Gunbuddy? /s

[@emadyoesf]

really helpful video though 😂😂

[@KiLLJOY1056]

So basically just use Low All unless youre on a 3060ti or higher

[@matchpoint2899]

For material quality, does it have an effect on a CPU bound system? I see you mentioned it affects mostly the GPU, so wondered if I would lose that much fps if I'm not GPU bound.

[@NuMakesGames]

My guess would be you won’t lose anything, but always good to test on your end.

[@matchpoint2899]

@@NuMakesGames is the best way to test in the range using the in game fps counter? Do you suggest installing any 3rd party fps display software or anything along those lines?

[@NuMakesGames]

@@matchpoint2899 I would load up a custom game in a real map and look at common positions. It won’t capture all the work in a ten player game but is a start. No need for third party tools.

[@greateacheronizuka]

It's all good until this guy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="445">7:25</a> looks into my soul 💀

[@mikesimmerman4457]

Higher graphics More shadows More flashes More smoke So you on high graphics enemy can hide in the shadows an all that turn off all that they got nothing tons of more dark spots on the screen so Harder to see enemy's more flashing so it's better low graphics cause alot less retractable things

[@heyvysh]

Me watching this at 300 ping

[@chooorb]

you sound like brimstone

[@mikesimmerman4457]

Forget graphics an go with higher fps an faster input