Valorant is a competitive tactical shooter where every frame matters. The good news: it's relatively easy to stream because its art style is clean and compresses well. Here are the best OBS settings for streaming Valorant.
Recommended Settings
Twitch
- 1080p 60fps: 5,000–6,000 Kbps, NVENC (New), Preset P5
- 720p 60fps: 3,500–4,500 Kbps — great if you want maximum game FPS
YouTube Live
- 1080p 60fps: 8,000–10,000 Kbps
- 1440p 60fps: 12,000–15,000 Kbps
Why Valorant Compresses Well
Valorant uses a stylized art style with flat colors and clean geometry. Unlike Fortnite or Warzone, there's less visual noise — fewer particles, simpler textures, and less foliage. This means the encoder can produce sharp output at lower bitrates than most shooters.
At 1080p 60fps, 5,000 Kbps on Twitch looks excellent for Valorant. You can even get away with 4,500 Kbps without noticeable quality loss during normal gameplay.
Encoder Settings
NVENC (Recommended)
- Rate Control: CBR
- Bitrate: 5,000–6,000 Kbps (Twitch) / 8,000–10,000 Kbps (YouTube)
- Preset: P5 (Slow)
- Profile: High
- B-frames: 2
- Look-ahead: Off
x264
- Preset: Medium
- Profile: High
- Tune: None (don't use "zerolatency" — it hurts quality)
In-Game Settings for Streaming
Valorant is CPU-light, so streaming impact is minimal. Recommended in-game settings:
- Resolution: 1920×1080 (native)
- Material Quality: High
- Texture Quality: High
- Detail Quality: Medium
- Anti-Aliasing: MSAA 4x
- Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
- Distortion: Off (reduces visual noise)
- Bloom: Off (cleaner image for stream)
Performance Tips
Valorant targets 128+ FPS for competitive play. To maintain high FPS while streaming:
1. Use NVENC encoding — it offloads work to the GPU's dedicated encoder chip, not the game rendering cores
2. Cap your game FPS at your monitor's refresh rate to reduce GPU load
3. Close Chrome and other background apps — Valorant is sensitive to background CPU usage
4. Set OBS process priority to "Above Normal" in Settings → Advanced
Quick Reference
| Platform | Resolution | FPS | Bitrate | Encoder |
| Twitch | 1080p | 60 | 5,000–6,000 Kbps | NVENC P5 |
| Twitch | 720p | 60 | 3,500–4,500 Kbps | NVENC P5 |
| YouTube | 1080p | 60 | 8,000–10,000 Kbps | NVENC P5 |
| Kick | 1080p | 60 | 6,000–7,000 Kbps | NVENC P5 |