The Best Settings To Play On PC

Call of Duty: Warzone is a fast-paced game that demands consistent performance and a steady FPS rate – but as recent games have become more demanding and hardware more expensive, many players have been unable to keep up with the requirements. As with any first-person shooter, you are required to react quickly and move often in order to stay alive in Warzone.

But especially as a competitive multiplayer game, Warzone demands unusually short reaction time and, with the added wrinkle of online connectivity, some seriously powerful hardware. Thankfully, the benefit of playing on PC is that you have a variety of different graphical settings to choose from, which you can tweak to improve Call of Duty‘s performance in multiple ways. Here’s a complete guide to the best settings in the most recent version of Warzone.

Best Warzone PC Graphics Settings

Display Settings

The graphical settings for Call of Duty: Warzone are divided into three categories: Display, Quality, and View. We’ll start with Display, which mostly includes settings that revolve around the physical screen where you’re playing Call of Duty. You likely won’t find cause to adjust most of these unless you’re using multiple monitors or GPUs, but just in case, here’s what you should look like for the best performance:

Quality Settings

Next up is the Quality settings menu, which affects how the game is rendered. This is where you’ll find the most relevant settings to game performance, so if you’re having an issue with low FPS or poor performance, this should be the first place you look.

View Settings

Finally, there’s View, the list of settings that determine how the camera behaves in-game. These may not affect performance as much as Quality, but many of them can have an effect.

How To Boost FPS In Warzone

Tips For Better Performance

If your settings match all of the above, and you’re still experiencing performance issues, you can try a few things to improve the situation. To begin with, close any other programs open on your computer, even if the window is minimized. Having other applications open, like web browsers, editing software, or chat clients, can consume a fair bit of the processing power available to your PC, slowing its performance considerably. Make sure to also check and close everything in the System Tray – the carat symbol (^) on your taskbar.

If that doesn’t do it, press Ctrl+Alt+Del and open the Task Manager. Select any tasks you’re not planning on using while you play Warzone, and click End Task. Stick to tasks under Apps and Background Processes; don’t end any task you don’t recognize.

If all else fails, check the Task Manager window (or Microsoft Game Bar by pressing Win+G) and note the performance of your CPU, GPU, Memory/RAM, and VRAM. If one or more of them are pushing 100%, and you’re still experiencing poor performance, it’s time to upgrade your PC. Although any of the above components could be the culprit, low FPS usually means you need a better CPU or GPU. Use the recommended hardware section below to guide your decision.

Minimum & Recommended Warzone PC Specs

What You Need To Play Warzone

The table below shows the minimum and recommended specs to run Warzone on your PC. These are pulled directly from the game’s Steam page. Note that you don’t necessarily need these exact components – their equivalents of other brands will do just fine.

Adjusting these settings accordingly should guarantee decent performance. This way, Call of Duty: Warzone will work even on low-end PCs and laptops without sacrificing quality.

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Call of Duty: Warzone.

Platform(s)

PS5
, PS4
, PC
, Xbox One
, Xbox Series S
, Xbox Series X

Released

November 14, 2022

Developer(s)

Infinity Ward
, Raven Software

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer

Engine

IW, IW 9.0

ESRB

m

How Long To Beat

100 hours

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