Best PC settings for Warzone: High FPS, graphics, visibility, more

❘ Updated: 2024-05-14T16:14:22

Warzone Operators aiming their weapons to fire

Activision

To make your Warzone experience as smooth as possible on PC, it’s essential to use the optimal settings. Here are the best Warzone PC settings in Season 3 Reloaded for maximum FPS, visibility, and more.

Warzone matches often come down to the finest of margins, and even something as simple as your settings can be the difference between victory and defeat. While your audio setup lets you hear footsteps and M&K settings can help your aim, making sure your PC is running at its best will reduce any frustrating stutters or FPS drops.

With this in mind, here are the best PC settings in Warzone Season 3 Reloaded.

Best Warzone graphics settings for high-end hardware
Best Warzone graphics settings for low-end hardware
Warzone PC system requirements
How to update graphics drivers
How to use NVIDIA DLSS in Warzone

Best Warzone graphics settings for high-end hardware

The best PC settings ensure a smoother and clearer Warzone experience.

Display

Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive
Display Monitor: Your primary gaming monitor
Display Adaptor: Your graphics card
Screen Refresh Rate: Refresh rate of your monitor (e.g. 144)
Display Resolution: Your monitor’s resolution (e.g 2560×1440)
Dynamic Resolution: Off
Aspect Ratio: Automatic
NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On+Boost
Eco Mode Preset: Custom
V-Sync (Gameplay): Off
V-Sync (Menus): Off
Custom Framerate Limit: Custom
- Gameplay Custom Framerate Limit: Your monitor’s refresh rate (e.g 144)
- Menu Custom Framerate Limit: 60
- Minimized Game Custom Framerate Limit: 15
Display Gamma: 2.2 (sRGB)
Brightness: 55
Focused Mode: 0

High Dynamic Range

High Dynamic Range (HDR): Off

Global Quality

Quality Presets: Custom
Render Resolution: 100
Dynamic Resolution: Off
Upscaling / Sharpening: Fidelity CAS
- AMD Fidelity CAS Strength: 75
Path Tracing + Ray Reconstruction: Off
VRAM Scale Target: 75
Variable Rate Shading: Off

Details & Textures

Texture Resolution: Normal
Texture Filter Anisotropic: Normal
Depth of Field: Off
Detail Quality Level: Normal
Particle Resolution: Low / Normal – Has a significant impact on FPS
Bullet Impacts: On
Persistent Effects: On
Shader Quality: Medium
On-Demand Texture Streaming: On – You can turn this off if you’re experiencing packet burst or running low on storage
Local Texture Streaming Quality: Normal

Shadow & Lighting

Shadow Quality: Normal
Screen Space Shadows: Off
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Screen Space Reflections: Off
Static Reflection Quality: High

Environment

Tessellation: Off
Volumetric Quality: Low
Deferred Physics Quality: Off
Weather Grid Volumes: Off
Water Quality: Off

View

Field of View: 110
ADS Field of View: Affected
Weapon Field of View: Wide
3rd Person Field of View: 90
Vehicle Field of View: Default

Camera

World Motion Blur: Off
Weapon Motion Blur: Off
Film Grain: 0.00
1st Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
3rd Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
Spectator Camera: Game Perspective
Inverted Flashbang: Off

Best Warzone graphics settings for low-end hardware

Display

Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive
Display Monitor: Your primary gaming monitor
Display Adaptor: Your graphics card
Screen Refresh Rate: Refresh rate of your monitor (e.g. 144)
Display Resolution: Your monitor’s resolution (e.g 1920×1080)
Dynamic Resolution: Off
Aspect Ratio: Automatic
NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On+Boost
Eco Mode Preset: Custom
V-Sync (Gameplay): Off
V-Sync (Menus): Off
Custom Framerate Limit: Custom
- Gameplay Custom Framerate Limit: Your monitor’s refresh rate (e.g 144)
- Menu Custom Framerate Limit: 60
- Minimized Game Custom Framerate Limit: 15
Display Gamma: 2.2 (sRGB)
Brightness: 55
Focused Mode: Off

High Dynamic Range

High Dynamic Range (HDR): Off

Global Quality

Quality Presets: Custom
Render Resolution: 100
Dynamic Resolution: Off
Upscaling / Sharpening: Fidelity CAS
- AMD Fidelity CAS Strength: 75
Path Tracing + Ray Reconstruction: Off
VRAM Scale Target: 90
Variable Rate Shading: Off

Details & Textures

Texture Resolution: Low
Texture Filter Anisotropic: Normal
Depth of Field: Off
Detail Quality Level: Low
Particle Resolution: Very Low – Has a significant impact on FPS
Bullet Impacts: On
Persistent Effects: Off
Shader Quality: Medium
On-Demand Texture Streaming: On – You can turn this off if you’re experiencing packet burst or running low on storage
Local Texture Streaming Quality: Normal

Shadow & Lighting

Shadow Quality: Low
Screen Space Shadows: Off
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Screen Space Reflections: Off
Static Reflection Quality: Low

Environment

Tessellation: Off
Volumetric Quality: Low
Deferred Physics Quality: Off
Weather Grid Volumes: Off
Water Quality: Off

View

Field of View: 100
ADS Field of View: Affected
Weapon Field of View: Wide
3rd Person Field of View: 90
Vehicle Field of View: Default

Camera

It’s important to ensure your PC can keep up with fast-paced matches.

World Motion Blur: Off
Weapon Motion Blur: Off
Film Grain: 0.00
1st Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
3rd Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
Spectator Camera: Game Perspective
Inverted Flashbang: Off

Setting your FOV slightly lower will lessen the load on your PC for those with lower-end PC builds.

Warzone PC system requirements

Here are the PC system requirements for Warzone, including the minimum, recommended, competitive, and Ultra 4K specifications.

Minimum Specifications

OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 / Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
RAM: 8 GB
Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470
Video Memory: 2 GB

Recommended Specifications

OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K / Core i7-4770 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400
RAM: 12 GB
Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580
Video Memory: 4 GB

Competitive Specifications

OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
RAM: 16 GB
Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
Video Memory: 8 GB

Ultra 4K Specifications

OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K or AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM: 16 GB
Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 64 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Video Memory: 10 GB

How to update graphics drivers for Warzone

If you find that you’re facing problems with your FPS or display when playing Warzone, then you’ll need to make sure that you have the latest versions of your graphics drivers. Ensuring that they’re up to date will let you avoid any problems running Warzone.

How to update NVIDIA graphics drivers

If you have an NVIDIA graphics card, the GeForce Experience app will update your graphics drivers for you:

Download GeForce Experience through NVIDIA.com.
Open GeForce Experience.
Select the ‘Drivers’ tab.
Click ‘check for updates’ in the upper right corner.
If an update is available, follow the steps.

How to update AMD graphics driver

If you have an AMD GPU, you can use the Radeon Settings to update your drivers:

Right-click on your desktop.
Select AMD Radeon Settings.
Click on the Home icon.
Click ‘New Updates’ on the bottom left.
Select ‘check for update.’
If an update is available, follow the steps.

How to use NVIDIA DLSS in Warzone

Warzone features NVIDIA DLSS software to boost your FPS while keeping the resolution high, so if you have an RTX graphics card, here’s how to use the handy feature in Infinity Ward’s battle royale.

Launch Warzone.
Head to Settings and navigate to the Graphics tab.
Select Quality then open the Upscaling/Sharpening drop-down list.
Click on NVIDIA DLSS.
For more options, click Show More where you can select the quality and strength.

If you’re playing Warzone at 1440p, you should only need the Quality or Balanced settings, but if you’re playing on 4K resolution, or are suffering from a low frame rate, you can use Performance or Ultra Performance to squeeze out as many frames as possible.

Naturally, these settings are very similar to those for Modern Warfare 3, so if you prefer multiplayer, check out our best PC settings for MW3 as well.

Those are the best PC settings for Warzone Season 3 Reloaded, and if you want to check out other guides then take a look at the ones below: