Having Call of Duty: Warzone 2 run smoothly with high frames per second can offer a major advantage over your opponents. Here’s our ultimate guide to the best Warzone 2 PC settings for high FPS and clear visibility, no matter your hardware.
Warzone 2 is the next step for Call of Duty when it comes to battle royale, an upgrade to the original that stands next to Modern Warfare 2, continuing Infinity Ward’s reimagining of the fan-favorite Modern Warfare franchise.
Alongside using the best controller settings and meta weapons, having high frames per second (FPS) is something that all PC players should look for. Not only will it have your game feel smooth, but it will also lower latency and improve your reaction time.
You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars to get a high FPS in Warzone 2 though, as we’re breaking down the best PC settings for both high and low-end hardware, as well as the system requirements.
- Warzone 2 PC system requirements
- Best Warzone 2 graphics settings for high-end hardware
- Best Warzone 2 graphics settings for low-end hardware
- How to update graphics drivers
- How to use NVIDIA DLSS in Warzone 2
Warzone 2 PC system requirements
According to Activision Support, here are the PC system requirements for Warzone 2, including the minimum, recommended, competitive, and Ultra 4K.
Minimum Specifications
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
- CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 / Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- RAM: 8 GB
- Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470
- Video Memory: 2 GB
Recommended Specifications
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
- CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K / Core i7-4770 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400
- RAM: 12 GB
- Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580
- Video Memory: 4 GB
Competitive Specifications
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
- CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
- RAM: 16 GB
- Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
- Video Memory: 8 GB
Ultra 4K Specifications
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
- CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K or AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
- RAM: 16 GB
- Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 64 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
- Video Memory: 10 GB
Best Warzone 2 graphics settings for high-end hardware
Display
- Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive
- Display Monitor: Your primary gaming monitor
- Display Adaptor: Your graphics card
- Screen Refresh Rate: Refresh rate of your monitor (e.g. 144)
- Display Resolution: Your monitor’s resolution (e.g 2560×1440)
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Aspect Ratio: Automatic
- V-Sync (Gameplay): Off
- V-Sync (Menus): Off
- Custom Framerate Limit: Custom
- Gameplay Custom Framerate Limit: Your monitor’s refresh rate (e.g 144)
- Menu Custom Framerate Limit: 60
- Minimized Game Custom Framerate Limit: 15
- Display Gamma: 2.2 (sRGB)
- Brightness: 55
- Focused Mode: Off
High Dynamic Range
- High Dynamic Range (HDR): Off
Global Quality
- Quality Presets: Custom
- Render Resolution: 100
- Upscaling / Sharpening: Fidelity CAS
- AMD Fideltity CAS Strength: 75
- Anti-Aliasing: Filmic SMAA T2X
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: Normal
- Video Memory Scale: 90
Details & Textures
- Texture Resolution: Medium
- Texture Filter Anisotropic: High
- Nearby Level of Detail: Low
- Distant Level of Detail: Low
- Particle Quality: High
- Bullet Impacts & Sprays: On
- Shader Quality: Medium
- Tessellation: Off
- On-Demand Texture Streaming: On – You can turn this off if you’re experiencing packet burst
- Streaming Quality: Normal
- Volumetric Quality: Low
- Deferred Physics Quality: Off
- Water Caustics: Off
Shadow & Lighting
- Shadow Map Resolution: Normal
- Screen Space Shadows: Off
- Spot Shadow Quality: Medium
- Spot Cache: Ultra
- Particle Lighting: Normal
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
It’s important o have the Spot Cache set to either High or Ultra, as it setting it higher will actually boost your FPS and help to fix stuttering issues.
Post Processing Effects
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
- Depth of Field: Off
- World Motion Blur: Off
- Weapon Motion Blur: Off
- Film Grain: 0.00
View
- Field of View: 110
- ADS Field of View: Affected
- Weapon Field of View: Wide
- 3rd Person Field of View: 90
- Vehicle Field of View: Default
- 1st Person Camera Movement: 100
- 3rd Person Camera Movement: 100
- 3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
- Default Spectator Camera: Game Perspective
Best Warzone 2 graphics settings for low-end hardware
Display
- Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive
- Display Monitor: Your primary gaming monitor
- Display Adaptor: Your graphics card
- Screen Refresh Rate: Refresh rate of your monitor (e.g. 144)
- Display Resolution: Your monitor’s resolution (e.g 1920×1080)
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Aspect Ratio: Automatic
- V-Sync (Gameplay): Off
- V-Sync (Menus): Off
- Custom Framerate Limit: Custom
- Gameplay Custom Framerate Limit: Your monitor’s refresh rate (e.g 144)
- Menu Custom Framerate Limit: 60
- Minimized Game Custom Framerate Limit: 15
- Display Gamma: 2.2 (sRGB)
- Brightness: 55
- Focused Mode: Off
High Dynamic Range
- High Dynamic Range (HDR): Off
Global Quality
- Quality Presets: Custom
- Render Resolution: 100
- Upscaling / Sharpening: Fidelity CAS
- AMD Fideltity CAS Strength: 75
- Anti-Aliasing: Filmic SMAA T2X
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: Low
- Video Memory Scale: 90
Details & Textures
- Texture Resolution: Low
- Texture Filter Anisotropic: High
- Nearby Level of Detail: Low
- Distant Level of Detail: Low
- Particle Quality: High
- Bullet Impacts & Sprays: On
- Shader Quality: Medium
- Tessellation: Off
- On-Demand Texture Streaming: On – You can turn this off if you’re experiencing packet burst
- Streaming Quality: Normal
- Volumetric Quality: Low
- Deferred Physics Quality: Off
- Water Caustics: Off
Shadow & Lighting
- Shadow Map Resolution: Low
- Screen Space Shadows: Off
- Spot Shadow Quality: Medium
- Spot Cache: High
- Particle Lighting: Normal
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
Post Processing Effects
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
- Depth of Field: Off
- World Motion Blur: Off
- Weapon Motion Blur: Off
- Film Grain: 0.00
View
- Field of View: 100
- ADS Field of View: Affected
- Weapon Field of View: Wide
- 3rd Person Field of View: 90
- Vehicle Field of View: Default
- 1st Person Camera Movement: 100
- 3rd Person Camera Movement: 100
- 3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
- Default Spectator Camera: Game Perspective
Setting your FOV slightly lower will lessen the load on your PC for those with lower-end PC builds.
How to update graphics drivers
Before you start playing Warzone 2 on PC, you should ensure that your graphics drivers are up to date. Here’s how to update graphics drivers on both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.
How to update NVIDIA graphics driver
If you have an NVIDIA graphics card, the GeForce experience app will update your graphics drivers for you.
- Download GeForce experience through NVIDIA.com.
- Open GeForce experience.
- Select the ‘Drivers’ tab.
- Click ‘check for updates’ in the upper right corner.
- If an update is available, follow the steps.
How to update AMD graphics driver
If you have an AMD GPU, you can use the Radeon Settings to update your drivers.
- Right-click on your desktop.
- Select AMD Radeon Settings.
- Click on the Home icon.
- Click ‘New Updates’ on the bottom left.
- Select ‘check for update’.
- If an update is available, follow the steps.
How to use NVIDIA DLSS in Warzone 2
Warzone 2 features NVIDIA DLSS software to boost your FPS while keeping the resolution high, so if you have an RTX graphics card, here’s how to use the handy feature in Infinity Ward’s battle royale.
- Launch Warzone 2
- 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 the quality and strength.
If you’re playing Warzone 2 at 1440p should only need the Quality or Balanced settings, but 4K players or those suffering from a low frame rate can use Performance or Ultra Performance to squeeze out as many frames as possible.
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