Why do i have bad fps on valorant?

[splatt]

I have between 70-120 fps in Valorant on LOW settings
CPU: Intel Core i5-11600K - 99.3%

GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060 - 104.3%

SSD: Kingston SA2000M81000G 1TB - 296.5%

RAM: Kingston KF3600C18D4/32GX 1x31GB - 50.1%

MBD: Asrock Z490 Steel Legend

Every other game works perfectly for me, and my pc is 50% better then my friends(benchmark tests) and he has 400-450fps

[Bruce]

Finding the reason for FPS drops are the Holy Grail of gamers.
Luckily I’m not a gamer but here is my stock standard response, see if anything helps.
If you have your PC as lean and clean as you can make it, that’s part of the battle.

Sadly, the other parts may be outside your control like; number of users/devices on your network, bandwidth, line attenuation, signal to noise ratio, etc. Logging into your modem’s config menu will show these values.

But things you can control are;

• reboot modem/router/pc
• delete restore points
• turn off hibernation (powercfg -h off)
• empty web browser cache
• delete system temp files
• scan Windows for system corruption (sfc /scannow)
• scan drive for file corruption (chkdsk c: /r)
• disable unwanted scheduled tasks
• disable unnecessary startup services
• disable scheduled defragging
• TRIM any SSD’s
• turn off Timeline and Activity History, and all things Microsoft Telemetry based
• empty recycle bin
• delete log files and error reports
• remove old Windows Updates files
• cleanup software installer and distribution caches
• delete unwanted programs
• remove any browser extensions
• if connecting via wireless, try ethernet
• pause any online cloud storage synchronising (OneDrive, DropBox)

CCleaner or Glary Disk Cleaner or the inbuilt cleanmgr command can do most of those points.
Note: when running CCleaner, only run the Custom Clean, not the Health Check, or Registry clean, or Driver Updater features.
Also, when installing, be sure to check all pre-selected options carefully and not simply allow it to use default suggestions.
It may offer to install AVG Anti-virus, there is no need for this.
It will also add a Smart Cleaning process to Windows Startup and a couple of tasks to Task Scheduler – these can be disabled from within CCleaner.

ShutUp10 by O&O Software can stop a lot of telemetry items.

Other things to try; create another user account and login under that profile.
Also check for firmware updates for modem/router and PC BIOS

Do a web speed check - go to www.speedtest.net and post the results.

Have there been any changes in the time frame that the FPS rates have dropped? Like new software or hardware, or extra users on the network?

[Bruce]

@splatt - any news?

[Bruce]

Closing – no response.
To request a re-open, go to Members > Staff Members, click a Staffer then Start Conversation and quote thread name.