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Update is live check out Nemi's post for more information. https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/g9aoap/upcoming_vanguard_changes/

This update will hopefully help. If you keep noticing problems though, please reach out to player support so that they can help with triage!

Any files from "C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard\Logs" would help and if you know of any VMWare logs that could have information those would be good too (but I don't know where they live).

/u/0xnemi knows what he's talking about but I'm also happy to answer questions!

While we normally don't plan on documenting changes to Vanguard, our Anti-Cheat system for VALORANT, on a frequent basis, this new update to Vanguard adds a new visual component that will give you, the player, more visibility and control over it. This post serves to provide some context.

 

Starting today, Vanguard will start showing a system tray icon

(after a reboot) while it's running. From there, you'll be able to turn off Vanguard at any time. Turning off Vanguard puts your machine in an untrusted mode and will prevent you from playing VALORANT until you reboot. If you want to keep Vanguard off indefinitely until you play VALORANT (e.g. persisting across multiple reboot sessions), you'll be able to do so mor...

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Sure!

There's a patch this week with some improvements!

For sure! I considered adding dual channel memory to our min and recommended specs. We see the same thing internally where the game won't run well on one stick of RAM. It seems like it may be more popular to run just one stick of RAM than we originally thought. Dual channel RAM is going to speed a computer up a ton and not just for VALORANT.

The ping chart averages over 1/10th of second. I think the scoreboard is 1/4th of a second. It's possible you're seeing really transient ping spikes that are actually much higher than the chart shows.

Could also be packet loss so you might try turning that chart on as well.

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

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

Ahh sh*t you're right I forgot.

On a more serious note though, we do hold ourselves to a high perf bar for the game. I'm glad players are giving us perf information from the more subjective side. We do have numbers but hearing from player's experiences directly as well is great, both when they're having a great performance and when they think we're missing the bar.

I just want to jump in and clarify that our game is indeed multi-threaded. The game is using 3+ threads nearly 100% of the time. It varies based on the amount of work that can be multi-threaded at the time.

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.

That being said we can always look at multi-threading more of the systems to get even better performance on systems that have a large number of cores. It's something we're aware of.

We're still working on AMD optimizations, so I don't have an AMD-equivalent yet. It's hard to make a recommendation without knowing how the different parts perform :-)

We will not be supporting 32-bit :(

edgy (the mature content option allows it)

Allow Mature content turns on blood and turns off the profanity filter.

Performance is really complicated, memory access speed is definitely going to help with game performance but how much will depend on all your other components too.

If overclocking the ram helps but overclocking the CPU doesn't then it sounds like memory access speed is the bottleneck for you. This is pretty rare in my experience but isn't impossible.

I have seen other people have memory bottlenecks on one stick of ram but usually those players have integrated GPUs which places extra demands on memory access speed/bandwidth.

We won't be adding new guns for a while, so the shop you see will be around for the foreseeable future (though we'll be adding some QoL stuff over time.) We like the current "all-up" layout because it presents all of your options up front, and makes mixing/matching guns, abilities, and armor a lot easier compared to other approaches.

In the meantime we'll look at ways to make broken armor more noticeable for folks who might be missing it.

The distinction that I'm making is that it's not that Vanguard being an anti-cheat gives it the ability to read things from your computer, it's that all regular programs on your PC can access basically everything.

Every game you install, every program (Discord, Steam, OBS, GeForce Experience, Origin, Epic Game Store, Battle.net, etc etc) could read your browsing history and record your keystrokes.

Most programs are well behaved but it's not because they are restricted in their permissions (like phone apps) but because the developers have no interest in your browsing history (same with Vanguard).

I haven't been able to reproduce this on any of my machines with any version of VMWare so far.

If you message me I'd be willing to look at your logs to see if there's anything going on.

We have improvements coming for systems like yours in the next patch. Personally I saw my i9 framerate go from about 220 to 280 (and others with better OC characteristics were getting above 300, YMMV).

I wouldn't say that Fortnite is necessarily a more demanding game, Valorant's networking and movement model is very demanding (in part due to the high number of updates per second the server sends).

It would be a nice long term goal to increase the usage of additional cores but going from 2 or 3 cores heavily utilized to an arbitrary number isn't as simple as a configuration change. Concurrency issues are some of the trickiest problems in all of programming and so work needs to be spread across cores very carefully to prevent subtle bugs from appearing.

On the other hand we think there's still a bunch more performance improvements that we can get into the game and we're hoping to deliver some this patch but we are also hoping to continue to improve in the futu...

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