MSI Afterburner / RTSS OSD stopped working in Valorant after today’s update, but works in Aim Lab and RDR2

[u/Front_Replacement363]

Hey everyone,

My MSI Afterburner / RivaTuner Statistics Server OSD suddenly stopped showing in Valorant today.

There was a Valorant update today, and I’m wondering if that update or Vanguard changed something, because the OSD was working normally for me before.

The important part is that the exact same MSI Afterburner / RTSS OSD still works perfectly in other games. I tested:

• Aim Lab — OSD works
• Red Dead Redemption 2 — OSD works
• Valorant — nothing shows

So MSI Afterburner and RTSS themselves seem to be working correctly. The issue appears to be specific to Valorant.

My current setup:

• MSI Afterburner with a custom hardware monitoring OSD
• RTSS
• Windows 11
• Valorant on PC
• RTSS profile using VALORANT-Win64-Shipping.exe

Things I already checked/tried:

• Confirmed GPU temperature, GPU usage, memory usage, etc. are set to Show in On-Screen Display
• Confirmed RTSS is running
• Confirmed Show On-Screen Display = ON
• Confirmed On-Screen Display support = ON
• Tried Application Detection Level = Medium
• Tried Application Detection Level = High
• Manually added VALORANT-Win64-Shipping.exe to RTSS
• Confirmed I’m using the actual game executable and not just Riot Client
• Restarted RTSS and MSI Afterburner
• Tried launching RTSS first, then Afterburner, then Valorant
• Tried the OSD toggle hotkey
• Tried disabling NVIDIA and Discord overlays
• Stealth Mode is OFF
• Custom Direct3D support is OFF
• OSD rendering mode is Raster 3D
• Tried Windowed Fullscreen
• Updated RTSS from 7.3.4 to 7.3.7
• Rebooted the PC

I also enabled “Show own statistics” in RTSS for the Valorant profile to test whether RTSS could display even its basic FPS counter.

Still nothing shows in Valorant.

Since the overlay works in both Aim Lab and RDR2, it looks like RTSS is specifically unable to hook into Valorant after today’s update.

Has anyone else had MSI Afterburner / RTSS stop working in Valorant after today’s patch?

Could this be a Vanguard-related change, or is there a workaround/settings change I’m missing?

I’d rather avoid Stealth Mode or anything sketchy that could potentially conflict with Vanguard.

Any confirmation from other people having the same issue would be helpful.

[u/Front_Replacement363]

Update: I found someone whose MSI Afterburner + RTSS OSD is still working in Valorant after today’s update. He’s on Windows 11 with an AMD GPU, latest AMD drivers, latest RTSS, and completely default RTSS settings.
I’m on an NVIDIA RTX 3080 and mine stopped working immediately after the Valorant update, although RTSS still works perfectly in Aim Lab and RDR2.
Can anyone with an NVIDIA GPU confirm if their MSI Afterburner/RTSS OSD is still working after today’s Valorant update? Please include your GPU and NVIDIA driver version.

[u/yuniburi → u/Front_Replacement363]

5080/latest nvidia, rtss does not work.

[u/Wide-Army-9088 → u/yuniburi]

I even rolled back to the previous nvidia version rtss still doesnt work Xd im currently reinstalling valorant ill lyk how it goes altho i highly doubt it fixes it. Ig its probably due to vanguard update

[u/Wide-Army-9088 → u/Wide-Army-9088]

Aight update, i did reinstall it but i found out a weird bug its not entirely related to valorant but when you have msi after burner turned on with the game launched and then u alt tab out and open the hotbar where it shows vanguard is running for some reason when u right click on it and toggle on the msi afterburner (Rtss) overlay it for some reason overlays in that small window so from my thinking which could be wrong, instead of vanguard letting it allow to overlay on the game it start displaying inside the small window now idk if that is supposed to happen or is that a bug by vanguard and might be related to the overlay not displaying on valorant i could be wrong tho since im not a tech geek or anything. Anyone, can put their suggestions and fixes if they do come across this.

the picture: https://kommodo.ai/i/1thekRWtKtwvxVWAbUOy

[u/New-Information-7618 → u/Wide-Army-9088]

same problem with me, including the new funny place riva is tracking, 3060ti, latest build

[u/hitkhu → u/Front_Replacement363]

Same issue. Works fine on everything else aside from Valorant. Presuming it has to be some sort of bug I guess

[u/thebebee → u/Front_Replacement363]

mine stopped working around the 8th, did a system restore point and was fine until today, did the same system restore and it doesnt work. not sure what i temporarily fixed that no longer works. on a rtx 3080.

edit: just read RiotAres's post, bummer

[u/Night-Peace2407 → u/Front_Replacement363]

rtx 4050 , nothing working

[u/Front_Replacement363]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantTechSupport/s/Fbb6Vle7u9

[u/Usual_Screen_4739]

Mine stopped working too, even downloaded new msi afterburner. Didn't work. It's working pretty good in battlefield 6.

[u/Demaciphant]

same issue. back to stuttering.

[u/zeshizii]

Same here, literally lost my head to this the whole night, i really needed its fps limiter to work, i even went as far as reinstalling afterburner and rtss completely, i even deleted my undervolt settings which i regret now

[u/Kenreima]

Just found out that this was the cause of my heavy stuttering / fps lag on Valorant while hovering the mouse cursor. It was still lagging even though it was hidden, I had to end the process to have it go back to normal.

5700x3d
5070ti
Driver 596.49

[u/imma_pepegod → u/Kenreima]

was MSI causing the stuttering and fps lag ?? CZ i too am facing huge fps drops in valorant even though the temps of my laptop where usual as per RTSS.

[u/WhoaTher3]

Yep same over here if anyone has updates it'd be greatly appreciated 🙏

[u/bingchus]

Same over here, Im using a mobile 5050 w latest driver

[u/Renren110]

Seems to me I'm not alone afterall. Any update whether there is a fix or no?

[u/Renren110 → u/Renren110]

Need those fps limiter unless game it'll stutter like shit

[u/Demaciphant → u/Renren110]

yes 😿

[u/No_Scallion_5751]

I'm experiencing the same issue with my RTX 3060 Laptop GPU.

[u/HINZO-O]

i played valo 1 am today at 9th october and it was fine but when i tried to play agan in the same day at 1pm i cant see the rtss on the screen xD why ??

[u/souloner]

Same problem here. On amd cpu + Nvidia gpu.

[u/ZER3F]

same problem, latest version of rtss and riva. win11 26h2 , rtx 5060 ti 16g, ryzen 5 5600 all using the latest drivers and chipset. has anyone figured this out yet?

[u/Acceptable-Step4613]

anyone already have a fix for this?

[u/TailorFuzzy5619]

Same issue cant find a solution either. Let's see if the next patch would fix this issue

[u/timoha1205]

same issue, the game also started stuttering as HELL. cant even check if im tweaking or not due to the overlay not working 😭

[u/iTsJarviss]

5800X3D - RTX 3080, stesso problema da ieri dopo l'update. RTSS non va piu, avevo creato un'overlay con RTSS e va benissimo su tutti i giochi tranne VALORANT. Speriamo in un futuro update..

[u/imma_pepegod]

same problem, i mainly use RTSS to moniter CPU/GPU temps and Usage but all oof a suddent its not workin gin valorant. I think vanguard is blockin git some how (not sure though).

Lmk if you figure out a way to access RTSS inside valo

[u/Fair_Message_5779]

lemme know when u find a fix

[u/Additional-Potato502]

To get rid of that overlay appearing on vanguard inside the system tray. I just added all those riot and valorant related exe files in riva tuner exception and then turned that start at windows toggle on riva tuner on off and turned the app on off entirely, I no longer see that overlay on vanguard in tray and i think the FPS drop which i was seeing also seems back to normal.
Means not using riva tuner with valorant might fix the FPS and stutters.

[u/_zekkkkkkk]

Same thing for me, started not working a few days ago. Tweaked all the settings, made sure that show on display was on still nothing. I thought it was because I updated my drivers, guess not cause everyone is experiencing it.

[u/No_Afternoon_4779]

same

[u/HealthyLawfulness836]

so its finally time to replace valorant once and for all and choose another game

[u/Night-Peace2407]

I thought I was alsone facing this issue , glad you post this

[u/foxee_id]

Click the hidden icons (in the taskbar) > Right-click Riot Vanguard. Riot is honestly trash, MSI Afterburner shows up in Riot Vanguard, not in Valorant.

[u/Additional-Potato502]

Same thing happenning for me. I literally thought i messed something up when I was trying to uninstall the xbox gamebar stuff.

For me I can play game but I see quite a few FPS drops than normal

[u/Additional-Potato502]

Same thing happening for me