Why does Valorant spike my CPU usage so high? Every other game, even on high settings doesn't come close to what Valorant does to my CPU. Whenever I'm in game in Valorant my CPU usage is constantly above 80% and sometimes spikes to 100. Even in menus my CPU usage seems way too high for just sitting in menus. I tried lowering my frame cap to match my refresh rate and that lowered it by 10% ish, before it was at 90% almost constantly, and again, no other game has this problem.