GAME · VALORANT · CHECKED ON DRIVER 621.14
NVIDIA Profile Inspector for Valorant (low-end and high-refresh PCs)
Valorant is a light DirectX 11 game that is usually limited by your CPU, and it has NVIDIA Reflex, so driver tweaks rarely move the needle. We did not measure any, but the settings that could matter on a weak GPU are texture filtering and power management, and neither has a published Valorant test. Valorant has no DLSS. Vanguard runs at kernel level and Riot has published no statement about driver profiles, so keep to a frame cap and nothing visual.
Why Valorant barely reacts to driver tweaks
Valorant is a DirectX 11 game built on Unreal Engine 4 with light visuals. On many PCs the CPU, not the GPU, sets the frame rate, so a driver change that affects the GPU has nothing to speed up. We did not measure GPU utilisation, because this site has no GPU, so we state this as the reason popular configs are said to do little and not as our result. COMMUNITY · player reports
Low-end GPU or laptop
If your GPU is the limit, the candidates are texture filtering quality and power management. Both are explained with their values on the texture filtering page and the power management page. The one power test we found, from 2019, showed no consistent FPS gain from Prefer maximum performance. We have no Valorant-specific test of any setting.
Latency: Reflex, Low Latency Mode, caps
Valorant supports NVIDIA Reflex, so use that in the game. For G-SYNC, a cap a few FPS under refresh is the usual advice, see the G-SYNC recipe.
“Riot’s custom NVIDIA profile” claim
A Blur Busters forum thread mentions a Riot-specific profile. NVIDIA’s driver 621.14 package does contain a predefined Valorant profile with 10 settings. LAB · driver 621.14 Here is exactly what it sets.
| Setting | ID | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Experimental - The amount of VA space in bytes reserved for the shader heap | 0x001ABC0F | 0x40000000 0x40000000 |
| Indicator MFAA | 0x00666665 | 0x00000000 Off |
| Experimental - Device Thread Queue Size | 0x006EA977 | 0x00080000 0x00080000 |
| Rebar Expr Modes | 0x00C09D09 | 0x00000002 Mode 2 |
| Ansel Behavior 2 100D51f7 | 0x100D51F7 | str:Filters=(RemoveHud.fx), Buffers=(Depth) |
| Antialiasing - FXAA Enabled (predefined by NVIDIA) | 0x1034CB89 | 0x00000000 Disallowed |
| Freestyle Filters Allow | 0x1035DB89 | 0x00000001 Allow |
| CPU Expr Modes | 0x105E2A1D | 0x00000004 Mode 4 |
| 0x109B7DB3 (Driver) | 0x109B7DB3 | 0x00000001 0x00000001 |
| Vertical Sync Expr Behaviors | 0x80857A28 | 0x00000001 Mode 1 |
Most are internal driver values. We cannot say what each does at run time, but you now know NVIDIA already tunes the game, so change this profile and do not create another for the same exe.
Our approach for a low-end PC
No downloadable file. Use the existing Valorant profile, which lists the game process, and not the launcher RiotClientServices.exe. Add a game explains exes. Then set only a frame cap, changing one thing at a time. We did not test it.
Laptops
Make sure Valorant runs on the NVIDIA GPU. Windows Graphics settings is the usual route. See power management and Optimus.
Vanguard and NPI
Undo
Delete the profile you created, or reset the rows. Undo and reset has the steps.
Questions people ask
Does NVIDIA Profile Inspector increase FPS in Valorant?
We could not test it. The game is usually CPU-bound, so driver settings change little on a mid-range or better GPU.
Can Vanguard ban me for NPI?
Riot has published no statement about driver profiles that we found. A profile change is not a game file, but no one can promise a tool is safe with a kernel anti-cheat.
Does Valorant support DLSS?
No. It has NVIDIA Reflex, not DLSS.
Low Latency Mode on or off for Valorant?
Use Reflex in the game. We did not test the driver mode with it.
Sources
- NVIDIA driver 621.14 predefined profile database nvidia.com · accessed 8 Nov 2026 · official
- Blur Busters forum forums.blurbusters.com · accessed 8 Nov 2026 · community