Best Call of Duty: Warzone PC settings for maximum performance

Best Call of Duty: Warzone PC settings for maximum performance

Ganesh Jadhav

9 Nov, 2023, 11:01

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Last updated: 10 Apr, 2025, 18:30

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)
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)
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)
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.

Featured Image Credits: Call of Duty Blog

Read More: Call of Duty launches Call of Duty: Warzone Urzikstan trailer

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