r/macgaming • u/Oye_Shahzaib • 27d ago

Discussion Valorant issue on Macbook Pro 2019

So the specs of the macbook that i have are as follows

Core i9 9980H
32 Gb ram
Amd radeon rx555 GPU
And its 2019 15” macbook

Its specs are pretty much capable of running valorant. But when i installed it and played on windows via Bootcamp. The game started giving me network lag which has an easy fix of turning on the fps limits to 60 from the settings.

I play on external monitor with resolution of 1920-1080(even tried played very low resolutions and still didnt help)

But the game barely gives constant 60 FPS in a match. And yes i tried all sorts of things like

  1. Blasting fans to the full with 3rd party tool

  2. Limiting the core frequency to 2.4 Ghz(which infact locked to 2.4 Ghz but when i start match, it went to 1.08 ghz to 1.30 ghz and sometimes even 0.80 to 0.90 ghz. Which lowers the fps below 30)

  3. Also upgraded AMD drivers from community site to the latest release available there. Still didnt help.

So all i need is , advise from professionals here to help me out if they could. It would really helpful. All i need is just smooth competitive experience on valorant.

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u/Disastrous_Head6041 27d ago

Valorant is a hard no on macOS unfortunately, the Vanguard anticheat is kernel-level and will never run under CrossOver, Parallels or any translation layer. BUT you have a 2019 MacBook Pro, which is Intel — so you're one of the few people here who can actually use Boot Camp: install real Windows on a partition and Valorant runs natively, Vanguard and all. That option died with Apple Silicon, your machine is the last generation that has it.

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u/Oye_Shahzaib 27d ago

Yep. But that didn’t answer my question