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

Joseph Pascoulis
Warzone Operators aiming their weapons to fire

Ensuring you’re getting high FPS in Warzone will enable you to play without any interference, react quickly, and potentially lower your deaths due to issues like lag. To improve your experience in the battle royale, here are the best Warzone PC settings in Season 2 Reloaded for max FPS, and more.

Warzone Season 2 Reloaded has finally made its way into the game, introducing plenty of content for Call of Duty fans to dive into. This mid-season update brings a couple of new weapons, SOA Subverter BR and Soulrender Melee, alongside several nerfs and buffs.

Of course, you can’t put the new weapons to a proper test if you’re not getting enough FPS to play without stuttering.

That said, here are the best PC settings for Warzone allowing you to experience the game with high FPS, clear visibility, and dominate your lobbies.

Best Warzone graphics settings for high-end hardware

The best PC settings ensure a smoother 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
Warzone vehicles
You can take full advantage of the best Warzone PC settings using high-end hardware.

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

  • 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 Gulag with logo
Low-end PCs can still run Warzone with a few key adjustments.

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
  • 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 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 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 of 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 2 Reloaded, and if you want to check out other guides then take a look at the ones below:

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About The Author

Joseph is a Senior Writer at CharlieIntel specializing in shooters - Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Fortnite, and Overwatch. He also enjoys Souls-likes, the Resident Evil franchise, and Tekken. After writing for KeenGamer, he joined CharlieIntel in 2021. If Joseph isn't writing about games, then he's most likely playing them. You can contact him at [email protected].