Best Call of Duty: Warzone PC settings for maximum performance

Ganesh Jadhav

9 Nov, 2023, 11:01

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)

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.

Featured Image Credits: Call of Duty Blog