Best Call of Duty: Warzone PC settings for maximum performance

The Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1 kicked off on 8th December and has introduced a plethora of new features including a brand new map Urzikstan.

Similar to its predecessors the current Call of Duty: Warzone supports PC. The recommended system requirements for the game are as follows:

• Processor - Intel® Core™ i5-6600K / Core™ i7-4770 or AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400
• Graphics Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 580 - DirectX 12.0 compatible system
• RAM - 12 GB
• Disk Space - 125 GB

These requirements aren’t as heavy, but take a toll on the system, especially your CPU. The strain on the system can lead to frame drops, throttling fps or in-game lag. To avoid such a circumstances, use the following Warzone settings to get maximum performance out of your PC.

Best Call of Duty: Warzone PC settings

Display Settings

Call of Duty: Warzone II Display Settings (credits: Screeshot via Call of Duty)

• Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive (Using Fullscreen Exclusive gives COD the direct control of the screen and hence leads to a better performance.)
• Display Monitor: Select your primary monitor.
• Display Adapter: Select your primary graphics card.
• Screen Refresh Rate: Select monitor’s refresh rate.
• Display Resolution: Use the monitor's native resolution.
• Display Gamma: 2.2 (sRGB)
• Brightness: Personal preference
• Eco Mode Preset: Custom
• V-Sync (Gameplay): Off
• V-Sync (Menus): Off
• Custom Frame Rate Limit: Custom
  • Gameplay: 300 (Choose the lowest of 2x monitor refresh rate or 300)
  • Menu: 90
  • Out of focus: 30
• Focused Mode: 0
• High Dynamic Range (HDR): Off (Set it off to get a better performance)

Quality Settings

Call of Duty: Warzone II Quality Settings (credits: Screeshot via Call of Duty)

• Graphic Preset: Custom
• Render Resolution: 100 (Lower to 75 if the VRAM size is lower)
• Dynamic Resolution: Off (Increases CPU load)
• Upscaling / Sharpening: Ideally Off (Use FidelityFX CASS if required with 75 strength)
• VRAM Scale Target: Maximum
• Variable Rate Shading: On
• Texture Resolution: Normal
• Texture Filter Anisotropic: Normal
• Depth of Field: Off
• Detail Quality Level: Normal
• Particle Resolution: Very Low
• Bullet Impacts: Off
• Persistent Effects: Off
• Shader Quality: Medium
• On-Demand Texture Streaming: On (can switch it off but lowers visual details)
• Local Texture Streaming Details: Normal
• Shadow Quality: Normal
• Screen Space Shadows: Off
• Ambient Occlusions: Dynamic Objects
• Screen Space Reflections: Normal
• Static Reflection Quality: High
• Tessellation: Near
• Volumetric Quality: Medium
• Deferred Physics Quality: Low
• Weather Grid Volumes: Normal or Low
• Water Quality: Water Caustics

View Settings

Call of Duty: Warzone II View Settings (credits: Screeshot via Call of Duty)

• FOV: 100 - 110 (Personal preference)
• ADS FOV: Affected
• Weapon FOV: Default
• 3rd Person FOV: 80 - 100 (Personal preference)
• Vehicle FOV: Default
• World Motion Blur: Off
• Weapon Motion Blur: Off
• Film Grain 0.25
• 1st Person Camera Movement: Least
• 3rd Person Camera Movement: Least
• 3rd Person ADS transition: Personal preference
• Spectator Camera: Personal preference
• Inverted Flashbang: Off

These settings tweak the visual aspects of the game to get maximum performance out of the system. Using the in-game presets also works if you have a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / AMD Radeon 6800 XT card or higher.

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