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no. valorant doesnt allow it and will specifically render the game to give no advantage
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True stretched resolution in VALORANT means the game is actually rendering at the custom resolution you select, not just scaling or stretching the image afterward. VALORANT does not support true stretched resolutions. If you pick a non-16:9 resolution, the game will add black bars (letterboxing/pillar-boxing) or scale the image to fit your screen, but the rendered field of view (FOV) and hitboxes stay exactly the same. This is different from older titles like CS:GO, where a stretched res would change how models looked on screen.
So in short:
- True stretched resolution = the game engine itself is rendering the world in that aspect ratio (e.g. 4:3 stretched to 16:9).
- What VALORANT does = the engine always renders at 16:9, and any "stretching" is just your display/GPU scaling the image. No gameplay or hitbox advantages come from it.