{"id":5766,"date":"2020-06-17T02:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/valorant-frame-drops-after-1-01-patch"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:30:21","slug":"valorant-frame-drops-after-1-01-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/valorant\/valorant-frame-drops-after-1-01-patch","title":{"rendered":"Valorant frame (FPS) drops after 1.01 patch and how to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"
Valorant, Riot’s tactical first-person shooter, is officially out of beta for almost three weeks now, but the game still has many issues and bugs that need to be fixed.<\/p>\n
And while Valorant patch 1.01 <\/a>brought a lot of fixes and solutions, unfortunately, it also came with a set of new issues and bugs that are making players’ experience worse.<\/p>\n One of the biggest problems players are encountering are sudden frame drops. Players are reporting massive frame drops and sound stuttering, even with the best, high-end PCs and they don’t know what’s the issue.<\/p>\n Fortunately, a Reddit user that goes by the name mackfun seems to have a solution for this issue<\/a>. Apparently, the problem is that after the latest patch, Valorant is now using only one CPU core, and he explains how to fix this.<\/p>\n You should follow these steps to check or fix the issue:<\/p>\n Launch Valorant, and minimize the game.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Open your Task Manager (by right-clicking the Windows Task Bar and clicking “Task Manager”).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Click “More Details”, and select the “Processes” tab.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Right-click Valorant, and select “Go to details”.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Right-click “VALORANT-WIN64-Shipping.exe”, and select “Set Affinity”.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n A window will pop up showing which CPU threads are currently enabled for Valorant. If they’re all checked, this fix probably doesn’t apply to you. If there’s only a couple checked off and everything else is unchecked? Check the box “<All Processors>”, and click OK<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Repeat step #5 and 6, but on “VALORANT.exe”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n According to comments in this Reddit thread, this will indeed fix your problems with frame drops in Valorant. <\/p>\n Mackfun says that he is not sure if the issue is due to the new patch 1.01 or a Windows Update, but he explains that you will need to do this again whenever you start playing the game again since the problem is constantly resetting.<\/p>\n Hopefully, Riot will fix this annoying issue with the new patch, that should be out next week and it will bring Ranked Play.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nEven the players with high-end PCs are reporting issues with frame drops since (Picture: Riot Games)<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\n(Picture: Riot Games)<\/span><\/p>\n