[2020] I feel like this game needs some CPU optimization.

Originally posted by mavericked

Awesome to hear! How important is RAM for framerate in Valorant? Overclocking my DDR4 ram (I only have 1 stick) from 2400 -> 3200 yields about 40 fps more on average. What's weird is that OC'ing my CPU from 4.4 to 5.1 yields almost nothing, which is really making me scratch my head.

Originally posted by Devilishola

It's definitely a problem when I get the same FPS on Apex Legends - a complete BR game with a map 100x the size of this to render. I made a thread a while ago and got replies from a Riot Dev (link below), it turns out the game is heavily single threaded with almost no bottleneck on any GPU that's past a few generations old.

It's still very strange they've chosen to go with singlethreading over multithreading with how the CPU market is right now. I hope they optimize the game well, I'm a bit disappointed seeing only 180fps average.

Link Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/fxlcxu/riot_pls_valorant_doesnt_use_100_of_the_gpu_and/

Originally posted by Dnomes

Cmon Riot, it's so f**king SIMPLE!

.RunValorant(parallelize = true, threadCount = THREADS.MAX, coreCount = CORES.MAX) parameters, shit, how did the devs forget those options?

There are a lot of metrics that go into development, and it doesn't seem you really care about the performance bounds on either side of the userbase, plus visual fidelity isn't the only performance drain in the game, considering there's a lot of logic going on in the background. Cores and threads doesn't necessarily == FPS, as some tasks just don't benefit from being 'split' up like that.

From my anecdotal evidence, the game runs great in terms of frametime and framerate on low end and high end setups, that I have run the game on, which is really really commendable.

Originally posted by Rawzlekk

I have a Ryzen 7 2700x with a GTX 980 Ti. Haven’t had big fps issues. I can consistently get 150-200 depending on what’s happening on the screen. In fact I don’t even notice the drops so I can’t say I really know what I get during fights or anything like that.

This is for another thread but the bigger issue for me is this “Network Problem” icon that’s consistently popping up when I have 39-45 ping. The stuttering can get really bad, like unplayable bad at times. And it’s super frustrating when I seemingly have good ping. I turned on the ping chart and there are occasional spikes that the KDA board doesn’t show, but the spikes are up to 50-60 ping which doesn’t seem to justify major stuttering.

Originally posted by mavericked

Gotcha, I appreciate the response. My friend just purchased another stick of ram to go run dual channel (just to test our theory of 1 stick vs 2) and he's seeing a 50-60 fps peak increase in fps. I actually saw a similar phenomena in Overwatch with RAM frequency, but I don't recall if I was single or dual channel. Just figured I'd share. Thanks again!

Originally posted by iDoomfistDVA

Any ETA for us Ryzen bois?

Originally posted by Yomafacio

What do you mean it's not just pthread_create? Just mutex everything and you'll be using more cores in no time! Sure, all the extra utilization is going towards context swaps and shit, but it's now multithreaded! /s

Originally posted by Devilishola

Hey dude, good to hear from you again.

When I've been saying "single threaded" I mean it's just using the few threads it does (as you explained in your lengthy post before) and I have linked back to the thread so people can read it themselves. I've checked threads in use on HWID during games and I can see it's not strictly on 1 thread, somebody else posted something similar a couple days ago too.

I think when most people talk about "multithread" in this context, we're generally talking about using way more than it does right now, given that there's CPU's with 16 threads out there today. It just feels like a bummer knowing that this game was marketed as being well optimized (and it is for lower end PC's) but everybody else with more modern machines are found wanting.

My post was to clarify that on higher end systems the best way to improve framerate is to increase core-clock of the CPU and to let people know upgrading their GPU wasn't going to help as much if you already have a pretty modern GPU.

True, sorry if seems like I'm pushing something else - I'm not, it's just that I'm dumbing down some comments I make. The context of our conversation last time on this topic was about me streaming and deciding to get a stronger GPU (purely for NVENC) as that would be in my best interest, I already hold enough FPS to be able to play at 144+ as long as I'm not streaming using x264 at the same time.

On that note, thanks for the transparent feedback and clarification. I think it's important to re-establish advice sometimes. You and some other frequenters here are doing great work at community communications so far and I hope you keep it up.

Originally posted by 1Leep

Are there more optimization patches planned anytime soon? You can see by the threads people are still getting poor performance

Originally posted by jld2k6

New user to the game here... I am running a ryzen 2600 @ 4ghz with 3200mhz RAM CL16 and an RTX 2060 super. I can't even hold my 144hz refresh rate on my monitor and drop below 100 during games. Is this considered normal after the patch that already rolled out? I'm seeing people with ryzen 3600's on stock saying they never go below 200fps even though the 3600 only has a 10% improvement in performance over the 2600. The framerate in this game for how simple the graphics are is not making much sense. I get a better framerate in Doom Eternal on Ultra-Nightmare settings than I do on this game's lowest settings and it's supposed to be able to run on a 10 year old PC. It technically runs, but you shouldn't need such a good CPU to run 144hz in a competitive shooter like this