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

Having a high FPS count in Warzone often gives you a major advantage over other players, and can sway the results of several key gunfights. So, here are the best Warzone PC settings for high FPS, the best graphical fidelity, and clear visibility in Season 6.

Call of Duty Warzone is among the most fun battle royale experiences on the market, at par with Apex Legends, Fortnite, and more. However, the game can be a little hard to run on low-end hardware, which is often due to the size of its map and the amount of players and objects PCs have to render.

If you’re on PlayStation or Xbox, ensuring you have the best controller settings can increase your chances of victory exponentially. If you’re a PC player, however, you’ll need to optimize your game for the highest frames per second, or FPS. This ensures a smoother gameplay experience with lower latency.

So, here are the best PC settings for both high and low-end hardware, as well as the system requirements for Warzone.

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

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

Best Warzone graphics settings for high-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 2560×1440)
• Dynamic Resolution: Off
• Aspect Ratio: Automatic
• 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
• Upscaling / Sharpening: Fidelity CAS
  • AMD Fideltity CAS Strength: 75
• Anti-Aliasing: Filmic SMAA T2X
• Anti-Aliasing Quality: Normal
• Video Memory Scale: 90

Details & Textures

• Texture Resolution: Medium
• Texture Filter Anisotropic: High
• Nearby Level of Detail: Low 
• Distant Level of Detail: Low
• Particle Quality: High
• Bullet Impacts & Sprays: On
• Shader Quality: Medium
• Tessellation: Off
• On-Demand Texture Streaming: On – You can turn this off if you’re experiencing packet burst
• Streaming Quality: Normal
• Volumetric Quality: Low
• Deferred Physics Quality: Off
• Water Caustics: Off

Shadow & Lighting

• Shadow Map Resolution: Normal
• Screen Space Shadows: Off
• Spot Shadow Quality: Medium
• Spot Cache: Ultra
• Particle Lighting: Normal
• Ambient Occlusion: Off

It’s important to have the Spot Cache set to either High or Ultra, as setting it higher will actually boost your FPS and help to fix stuttering issues.

Post Processing Effects

• NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
• Depth of Field: Off
• World Motion Blur: Off
• Weapon Motion Blur: Off
• Film Grain: 0.00

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
• 1st Person Camera Movement: 100
• 3rd Person Camera Movement: 100
• 3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
• Default Spectator Camera: Game Perspective

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
• 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
• Upscaling / Sharpening: Fidelity CAS
  • AMD Fideltity CAS Strength: 75
• Anti-Aliasing: Filmic SMAA T2X
• Anti-Aliasing Quality: Low
• Video Memory Scale: 90

Details & Textures

• Texture Resolution: Low
• Texture Filter Anisotropic: High
• Nearby Level of Detail: Low 
• Distant Level of Detail: Low
• Particle Quality: High
• Bullet Impacts & Sprays: On
• Shader Quality: Medium
• Tessellation: Off
• On-Demand Texture Streaming: On – You can turn this off if you’re experiencing packet burst
• Streaming Quality: Normal
• Volumetric Quality: Low
• Deferred Physics Quality: Off
• Water Caustics: Off

Shadow & Lighting

• Shadow Map Resolution: Low
• Screen Space Shadows: Off
• Spot Shadow Quality: Medium
• Spot Cache: High
• Particle Lighting: Normal
• Ambient Occlusion: Off

Post Processing Effects

• NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
• Depth of Field: Off
• World Motion Blur: Off
• Weapon Motion Blur: Off
• Film Grain: 0.00

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
• 1st Person Camera Movement: 100
• 3rd Person Camera Movement: 100
• 3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
• Default Spectator Camera: Game Perspective

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

How to update graphics drivers for Warzone

If you find that you’re facing problems with your FPS or display 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:

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.

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.

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

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

Naturally, these settings are very similar to those of Modern Warfare 2, so if you prefer multiplayer, check out our best PC settings for Modern Warfare 2 as well.

Those are the best PC settings for Warzone Season 6, and if you want to check out other guides then take a look at the ones below:

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