VALORANT — Region pricing differences on the same store

Coming back after a long break and trying to catch up. I do not want to sink more time or money into it before I understand what I am optimising for.

Would rather learn the right way now than build a bad habit.

Agreed on most of this, except the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Quick correction to the above: check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Adding to the above: do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

In my testing, the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

That fixed it for me, at least.

Not the answer you want, but it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Quick correction to the above: verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Others may have a cleaner method.

Adding to the above: the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Had the exact same issue. check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, if it only happens in one mode, that narrows it down considerably.

That fixed it for me, at least.

For what it is worth, measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

The usual fix here is the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

From experience, nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

I went through this last month. the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Adding to the above: the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.