Frequent frame drops in Valorant with a Ryzen 9700X and RTX 5070Ti GPU
Frequent frame drops in Valorant with a Ryzen 9700X and RTX 5070Ti GPU
I’m facing a really annoying problem with Valorant where I keep losing frames and seeing sudden spikes in frame time every few seconds. This is making the game almost impossible to play. I’m curious if others have experienced this on a similar system or have any advice. How can I fix this since it’s ruining my experience? My setup details: Valorant version 11.04, Windows 11 Pro, 10.0.26100, CPU Ryzen 7 9700X, RAM DDR5 6000MT/s CL36 (16GBx2), GPU Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, motherboard Gigabyte X870E. Overall FPS is decent but there are consistent frame time jumps visible in the performance graph (Ctrl+Alt+F). I’ve updated to the latest NVIDIA drivers and even rolled back once. I’ve turned off overlays like Discord, GeForce Experience, and MSI Afterburner OSD. I’ve tried both uncapped FPS and slightly capping it below the monitor refresh rate. RAM is confirmed at EXPO (6000MT/s CL36). When I switched to high performance mode, Latencymon reported: “You might see buffer underruns causing dropouts, clicks, or pops. A possible cause could be power management—disable CPU throttling in Control Panel and BIOS.”
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It seems you're suggesting a different RAM configuration. The current setup might not be optimal—consider using a CL30 6000MHz combo for better performance.