How to fix low FPS issues & stuttering in Warzone

Low FPS and stuttering issues can completely ruin your Warzone experience, not only making the game feel worse to play but also making fights more difficult.

Having consistent frames per second can give you a huge advantage in shooters, improving your reaction time, tracking, and the overall feel of the game.

Players often report performance issues after major updates but don’t worry, here are some simple fixes so Warzone plays as smoothly as possible in Season 5.

Use the best Warzone PC settings to fix FPS issues

If you’re not getting the best FPS possible in Season 5, check out the best PC settings.

There are some extremely demanding settings you might have accidentally enabled, so after checking the PC requirements, it’s worth making sure you’re getting the most FPS from your PC.

Play Warzone in Fullscreen Exclusive mode

Warzone can default to the Fullscreen Borderless setting which can cause all manner of problems such as low FPS, input lag, and stuttering, so make sure you’re using Fullscreen Exclusive.

Rollback NVIDIA drivers

Ensuring you have the most up-to-date NVIDIA drivers can fix many issues (including crashing) but can sometimes have the opposite effect on games like Warzone. If you’re experiencing low FPS and other issues, try rolling back the NVIDIA drivers to a previous version.

Here’s how:

1. Search Device Manager and open it.
2. Select Display Adapters.
3. Double-click on your graphics card.
4. Open the Drivers tab
5. Select Roll Back Driver.
6. Restart your PC.

If the Roll Back Driver box is greyed out, you need to manually uninstall and then install a previous driver.

1. Select Uninstall Driver from the same menu, then follow the steps.
2. Go to the GeForce Drivers tab on NVIDIA.com
3. Search for your graphics card.
4. Install a previous driver from the list.
5. Restart your PC.

Adjust Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling

Warzone players have reported mixed results from the Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling feature, having seen results from turning it both on and off.

It’s off by default so you can try enabling Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling and see if it fixes your issues. If you have it on already, try turning it off and see if there’s any improvement.

Here’s how to find the setting:

1. Right-click on your desktop.
2. Select Display Settings.
3. Scroll down to Graphics Settings and click on it.
4. Turn Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling either On or Off.
5. Restart your PC.

Use NVIDIA DLSS to boost FPS

Warzone features NVIDIA DLSS, an upscaling technology that runs the game at a lower resolution but gives the appearance of a higher one, boosting FPS.

If your FPS is lower than it should be, you can experiment with NVIDIA DLSS. Your game won’t appear quite as crispy as it usually does, but it can be a worthwhile sacrifice for improved performance.

1. After launching the game, head to Settings and navigate to the Graphics tab.
2. Select Quality then open the Upscaling/Sharpening drop-down list.
3. Click on NVIDIA DLSS.
4. For more options, click Show More where you can select Quality and Sharpening.

If you have DLSS enabled but are experiencing issues, you can try turning it off or switching to another method such as AMD FSR 1.0.

Scan and Repair Warzone files

If Warzone is experiencing significantly lower FPS than other games with similar requirements, we recommend performing a Scan and Repair to find and fix any issues with the game files.

Steam

1. Open Steam.
2. Right-click on Call of Duty in your library.
3. Head to Settings and select Properties.
4. Go to Local Files and select Verify integrity of game files.

Battle.net

1. Click on Call of Duty on Battle.net.
2. Select the Cog icon beside Play.
3. Select Scan and Repair.

Turn Weapon Motion Blur on

Back in Warzone 2, players were sometimes hit with extremely low FPS at the start of matches resulting in the game looking like a slideshow when jumping from the plane, and the fix was to enable Weapon Motion Blur.

Although the setting might take some time to get used to, it could completely fix the low FPS and stuttering at the start of matches and even give you a nice frame rate boost too.

Reinstall Warzone to fix lag & stuttering

This is the last resort and we hope you don’t have to, but if a Warzone Scan & Repair didn’t help, we recommend completely reinstalling the game. This will catch any problems that the Scan & Repair didn’t and will hopefully fix any low FPS issues or stuttering you’re experiencing.

Once you solve the issues, be sure to lock in the best controller, audio, and FOV settings to make your experience as smooth as can be.