Best PC settings for Gray Zone Warfare: High FPS, graphics, more

Joaquín Frere
Gray Zone Warfare look from the top of a Chopper.

Gray Zone Warfare is here, and with its demanding graphics, we’ve compiled the best PC settings so you can run the game smoothly.

Gray Zone Warfare is a brand-new extraction shooter that brings the best of Escape from Tarkov while bringing its own spin to the genre. Players are struggling to run this new PvPvE extraction title after its early access launch so you’ll need to prepare your PCs and apply best settings in the game.

So, here are the best PC settings for Gray Zone Warfare, and its system requirements.

Best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for high FPS

Here are the best PC settings for achieving high performance and FPS in Gray Zone Warfare:

Display

  • Monitor: Your primary monitor
  • Window Mode: Fullscreen
  • Resolution: Depends on your monitor
  • Vertical FOV: 65
  • VSync: Off
  • Brightness: 100
  • Contrast: 100
  • Saturation: 100
  • Gamma: 100
  • Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
  • Frame Rate Limit (Background): 30 FPS

Quality

  • Quality Presets: Custom
  • 3D Resolution: N/A
  • Global Illumination: Low
  • Shadow Quality: Low
  • Texture Resolution: Low
  • Effects Quality: Low
  • Reflections Quality: Low
  • Foliage Quality: Low

Postprocessing

  • Post Processing: Low
  • Motion Blur: None
  • Sharpening: 10
  • Colorblind Mode: Off
  • Colorblind Mode Strength: N/A

Advanced

  • Anti-Aliasing/Upscaling method: FSR
  • Anti-Aliasing Quality: N/A
  • NVidia DLSS Super Resolution: N/A
  • NVidia DLSS Sharpness: N/A
  • NVidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
  • FidelityFX Frame Generation: Off
  • Fidelity FX Super Resolution: Performance
  • XeSS Super Sampling: N/A

You’re welcome to turn on FidelityFX Frame Generation as it will give a big performance boost, but the game won’t feel as responsive. Unless it’s unplayable without it, we’d recommend leaving it off.

Gray Zone Warfare settings menu
It’s worth sacrificing visual quality to improve performance in Gray Zone Warfare.

Best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for graphics

Here are the best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for high graphics:

Display

  • Monitor: Your primary monitor
  • Window Mode: Fullscreen
  • Resolution: Depends on your monitor
  • Vertical FOV: 65
  • VSync: Off
  • Brightness: 100
  • Contrast: 100
  • Saturation: 100
  • Gamma: 100
  • Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
  • Frame Rate Limit (Background): 30 FPS

Quality

  • Quality Presets: Custom
  • 3D Resolution: N/A
  • Global Illumination: Medium
  • Shadow Quality: Medium
  • Texture Resolution: Medium
  • Effects Quality: Low
  • Reflections Quality: Low
  • Foliage Quality: Low

Postprocessing

  • Post Processing: Low
  • Motion Blur: None
  • Sharpening: 10
  • Colorblind Mode: Off
  • Colorblind Mode Strength: N/A

Advanced

  • Anti-Aliasing/Upscaling method: FSR
  • Anti-Aliasing Quality: N/A
  • NVidia DLSS Super Resolution: N/A
  • NVidia DLSS Sharpness: N/A
  • NVidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
  • FidelityFX Frame Generation: Off
  • Fidelity FX Super Resolution: Quality
  • XeSS Super Sampling: N/A
  • These are the best settings that you can apply in Gray Zone Warfare to make the game look the best it can while still being playable, as the FPS difference from Medium to High is incredibly high.

    How to update graphics drivers for Gray Zone Warfare

    If you’re facing problems with your FPS then make sure you have the latest versions of your graphics drivers.

    Here’s how to update both NVIDIA and AMD graphic drivers:

    How to update NVIDIA graphics drivers

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

    1. Download GeForce Experience through NVIDIA.com
    2. Open GeForce Experience
    3. Select the ‘Drivers’ tab
    4. Click ‘check for updates’ in the upper right corner
    5. 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:

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

    Does Gray Zone Warfare have DLSS & FSR?

    Yes, Gray Zone Warfare has both DLSS 3 and FSR included. Experts on X recommend these upscaling methods and we can confirm they greatly boost the game’s performance to meet the hefty requirements:

    Gray Zone Warfare system requirements

    Here are the minimum and recommended system requirements to run Gray Zone Warfare on a PC:

    Minimum specsRecommended specs
    OS:Windows 10, 64-bit (latest update)Windows 10, 64-bit (latest update)
    CPU:Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600Intel Core i7-9700K / AMD® Ryzen 5 3600X
    Memory:16 GB RAM32 GB RAM
    Graphics:Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 / AMD Radeon RX-5700 / Intel Arc A770 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070ti, AMD Radeon RX-6800
    DirectX:Version 12Version 12
    Storage:40 GB40 GB

    And that is everything you need to know about the best PC settings to run Gray Zone Warfare on PC! For more on the extraction shooter, also check out:

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Joaquín is a new Senior Writer for Charlie Intel with years of experience on games journalism. Focusing on all things JRPGs and a videogame developer at heart. Graduated from Game-Dev School and Public Relations, his current work is Charlie Intel and Infobae for LATAM. You can contact Joaquín at [email protected]