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VALORANT pro settings: this is how the pros play

What DPI do esports players actually use and what crosshairs should I use as a duellist? You can find out the best settings for Valorant here.

Written by Julian Spies

4 min readPublished on 30.07.2024 · 13:00 UTC

If you want to give yourself the best chance of climbing the VALORANT ranking ladder and competing at tournaments like Red Bull Home Ground, why not learn from the best? Read on to find out how the pros set up for their matches.

DPI (mouse sensitivity)

Finding the right mouse sensitivity depends on a few factors. You should be able to rotate your mouse pad 180-360 degrees in-game without slipping off the pad.

A lower DPI is recommended for sensitivity in shooters. A standard would be 800 or 1,600. In-game, the Sensitivity: Aim factor for the pros ranges from 0.35 to 0.45.

Scope sensitivity, the factor by which your sensitivity changes when you use the scope on weapons, is 1.00 for 76 percent of professional players. The average here is 0.95.

Event participant celebrates during Red Bull Campus Clutch World Finals in Sao Paulo, Brazil on December 16, 2022. — Things happen fast in VALORANT
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Graphics settings and resolution

The first of your video settings is the display mode. Most pros prefer the full screen here. You should not exceed 1920x1080 pixels for the resolution, higher resolutions only require more computing power.

The FPS settings should mainly be set to "Off" in the "FPS Limit Always" item. Your frames should not be capped below 60 in game either. In the event that there is an "Nvidia Reflex Low Latency" option in your settings, you can set it to "On + Boost" to get even more performance out of your graphics.

For the graphics settings, it is advisable to activate the "Multithreaded Rendering" option. This allows the game to run on multiple threads on your computer and be played more smoothly. For true performance play, it's worth keeping all other graphics settings as low as possible to get as many frames per second as possible.

In the "Stats" area you can display various information about the current computing power, ping, and other connections. Here you have to decide for yourself what information, if any, you want to have displayed permanently.

iiTzTimmy competing at Red Bull Home Ground VALORANT event in Tokyo — iiTzTimmy in action at Red Bull Home Ground in Tokyo
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Audio

Perceiving opponents and their sounds in VALORANT is crucial to always get the maximum information output of your environment. Many pros play without the in-game background music because they either don't want to hear music or have their own running. The most important setting in this tab is the speaker configuration. This should definitely be set to "Stereo" so that you can assign movement sounds to the direction of origin.

Crosshairs

The crosshair is the most personal choice in any game setting. Here you can let off steam. However, we don't want to withhold a few crosshairs from the pros from you. Most players use a dot, circle, or cross for aiming by default. In the user menu under "Crosshairs" you can make all sorts of adjustments to your primary and visor crosshair.