Valorant

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Valorant

Developers
	Riot Games
Engines
2020-2025	Unreal Engine 4
	Unreal Engine 5
Release dates
Windows	June 2, 2020
Reception
Metacritic	80
OpenCritic	81
IGDB	78
Taxonomy
Monetization	Free-to-play
Microtransactions	Cosmetic, Currency, Infinite spend, Free-to-grind, Unlock
Modes	Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Shooter
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Sci-fi

Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

General information

Official Discord server

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website
Epic Games Store
Publisher website		China version.
Microsoft Store		Included exclusively with Xbox Game Pass for PC.

Global version requires a Riot Games account.

China version requires a QQ account.

All versions require a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Accounts from different platforms (PC storefronts, PlayStation and Xbox) can be linked for cross-progression at Riot Games Account

Monetization

Type	Notes
Free-to-play	The game is free-to-play with microtransactions in the form of currency purchases.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Cosmetic	Cosmetic skins can be purchased for weapons using Valorant Points or earned as rewards for the purchasable Battle Pass every season.
Currency	Valorant Points can be purchased with real money. Radianite Points can be obtained using Valorant Points or from seasonal Battle Pass completion.
Free-to-grind	All additional characters can be unlocked through gameplay, with an option to skip the "contract" by purchasing with Valorant Points.
Infinite spend	There is no limit to how much currency can be purchased.
Unlock	Valorant Points can be used to purchase additional characters.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\VALORANT\Saved\Config

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher		Linked to Riot Games account.
Xbox Cloud		Linked to Riot Games account.

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			Pillarboxed. Use Valorant Ultrawide Fix for Vert- FOV.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Locked to 103°
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16x
Anti-aliasing (AA)		2x MSAA, 4x MSAA or FXAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Disabled by default.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Support Auto HDR.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		Tritanopia, Deuteranopia and Protanopia

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 5 page for more details.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

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  General settings

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  Display settings

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  Graphics settings

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity		Separate value for scoped view sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

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  Key remapping

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  Crosshair settings

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, Sound Effects, Voice-over, Video, All Music, Menu & Lobby Music and Agent Select Music
Surround sound		Spatial Audio (HRTF) is available.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Only music can be toggled to mute when game focus is lost
Royalty free audio

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  Sound settings

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  Voice chat settings

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  Voice-over settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese				Unavailable outside China.
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Thai
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		14	Versus 128-tickrate servers 10 players on Unrated, Spike Rush, Swiftplay, Competitive, Premier, Team Deathmatch, Escalation, Replication and Snowball Fight game modes 14 players in Deathmatch game mode

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated		Developer-hosted
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Valorant Support Center

Official knowledge base covering issues with the game, such as error codes and troubleshooting, and the Vanguard anti-cheat software.

Troubleshoot the issue according to Riot Games Support's Valorant support center

Issues unresolved

Shader compilation stutter on AMD GPU's

Users with AMD GPU's (RDNA 1 and up) on recent driver versions (22.5.2 or newer) will experience shader compilation stutter/hitching after updating/reinstalling their GPU drivers, due to AMD's DX11 driver implementation + the fact that this game does not precompile shaders. Nvidia GPU's don't suffer nearly as much from this issue. Stuttering will usually also occur after a game update, although the stutters appear to be less severe. The stutters will occur every time a new weapon/weapon skin is fired, an ability is used or a kill finisher is displayed, and as such the majority of such stutters should occur within the first few games played after a GPU driver install or game update. A WORKAROUND for this issue would be to update GPU drivers as infrequently as possible, but this does not fix the problem and only reduces how often it occurs. The best thing users can do is to manually force the shaders to compile by shooting/using all guns and agent abilities in the range, and playing a few practice matches afterwards. This issue is still present as of driver version 25.6.2, and will likely persist until it is either fixed by AMD or by Riot, which unfortunately has not happened even after the game's update to Unreal Engine 5 as of July 2025.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Anti-cheat	Riot Vanguard, Packman, Tencent Anti-Cheat Expert	Tencent Anti-Cheat Expert uses only in China Version. Packman uses only in Global version. Riot Vanguard uses only in all versions. Vanguard autostarts with Windows. While it can be disabled post-boot, it requires a reboot of the computer before allowing play again.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10 (2004), 11
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-540 AMD Athlon 200GE		Intel Core i3-4150 AMD Ryzen 3 1200
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	35 GB
Video card (GPU)	Intel HD Graphics 4000 AMD Radeon R5 220 1GB of VRAM		Nvidia GeForce GT 730 AMD Radeon R7 240 1GB of VRAM
Other	TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot

A 64-bit operating system is required.

The game requires CPU with SSE4.2 or AVX instructions.