How to fix low FPS issues & stuttering in Warzone

❘ Updated: 2024-02-26T15:40:16

Activision

Experiencing stutters and lag issues will ruin your chances of making it to the final circles, so if you’re looking to fix low FPS and stuttering issues in Warzone Season 3, here are all the quick fixes you should be aware of.

Season 3 has introduced a plethora of new content for you to dive into in Warzone. While there are three new weapons added to the arsenal at the time of launch, you can’t empty spray down your enemies or have consistency in your performances with lag issues.

That said, we’ve listed all the best fixes for low FPS and stutter issues in Warzone.

Use the best Warzone PC settings
Play in Fullscreen Exclusive mode
Rollback NVIDIA drivers
Adjust Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling
Use NVIDIA DLSS in Warzone
Scan and Repair Warzone files
Turn Weapon Motion Blur on
Reinstall Warzone

Warzone Operators charging with their weapons

Smooth gameplay lets you shoot with precision in Warzone.

Use the best Warzone PC settings to fix FPS issues

If you feel like you’re not getting the best FPS possible in Season 3 then you should take a look at the best Warzone PC settings.

There are some extremely demanding Warzone settings you might have enabled by accident, 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 issues such as low FPS, input lag, and stuttering, so make sure you’re using Fullscreen Exclusive.

Rollback NVIDIA drivers

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

Here’s how:

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

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

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

Adjust Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling

hardware accelerated gpu scheduling setting in windows 10

Adjusting Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling can improve Warzone’s performance.

Warzone players have reported mixed results from the Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling feature, where players are seeing 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:

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

Use NVIDIA DLSS to boost Warzone 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.

After launching 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 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

Call of Duty Scan and Repair on Battle.net

Using Scan & Repair can fix a variety of issues in Warzone.

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.

Here’s how to Scan and Repair Warzone on Steam and Battle.net:

Steam

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

Battle.net

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

Turn Weapon Motion Blur on in Warzone

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 can even give you a nice frame rate boost as well.

Reinstall Warzone

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

You can also check out some of our other Warzone guides: