Question Lagging and audio cutting out in Valorant ?

[PsychoSaik21]

So while I was playing Valorant today I experienced this weird bug where I would suddenly experience a decrease in performance to what felt like 10fps (although the fps counter did not change) and at the same time a complete audio cut-off. I restarted my game (making sure it was closed in task manager) and still felt the same issue, which was such a problem that I had to restart my entire PC, which decreased the frequency but the game felt completely off and I did still experience these stutters. I have not experienced any of these issues in CSGO and Metro Last Light.

Motherboard - MSI B550-A Pro

Drivers are fully updated, no thermal throttling was detected, even after limiting FPS to 50 it still dropped and lagged out completely.
Example of what it looked like: https://medal.tv/games/valorant/clips/1bIMNI1tmtNehs/d13371MDuCmZ?invite=cr-MSxzYzMsNDQ2MjAzNDMs (has gotten even worse)

 

[ak47jar3d]

I would use a tool like msi afterburner to determine where the issue lies. There should be an obvious bottleneck somewhere....