Best Warzone PC settings for FPS, graphics & reduced lag

Warzone matches often come down to the finest of margins, and even something as simple as your PC settings can be the difference between victory and defeat.

While your audio setup lets you hear footsteps and M&K settings can help your aim, running the best PC settings for Warzone detailed below will have the game running smoothly, reducing any frustrating stutters, FPS drops, or lag spikes.

Best Warzone PC graphics settings

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
• NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On+Boost
• Eco Mode Preset: Custom
• 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
• Dynamic Resolution: Off
• Upscaling / Sharpening: FidelityFX CAS
  • AMD Fidelity CAS Strength: 85
• Path Tracing + Ray Reconstruction: Off
• VRAM Scale Target: 90
• Variable Rate Shading: Off

Details & Textures

• Texture Resolution: Low
• Texture Filter Anisotropic: Normal
• Depth of Field: Off
• Detail Quality Level: Low
• Particle Resolution: Very Low – Has a significant impact on FPS
• Bullet Impacts: On
• Persistent Effects: Off
• Shader Quality: Medium
• On-Demand Texture Streaming: Minimal
  • Allocated Texture Cache Size: 16
  • Download Limits: On
  • Daily Download Limit (GB): 1.0
• Local Texture Streaming Quality: Low

The Season 5 Reloaded update made On-Demand Texture Streaming mandatory, which can cause lag and stuttering issues if your internet isn’t top-of-the-line. These issues have persisted into Season 6 as well.

To limit its impact, set it to Minimal, have the Allocated Texture Cache size on its lowest setting (16), turn Download Limits On, and set the Daily Download Limit to its lowest. This means On-Demand Texture Streaming will turn off after 1GB has been downloaded.

Shadow & Lighting

• Shadow Quality: Low
• Screen Space Shadows: Off
• Ambient Occlusion: Off
• Screen Space Reflections: Off
• Static Reflection Quality: Low

Environment

• Tessellation: Off
• Volumetric Quality: Low
• Deferred Physics Quality: Off
• Weather Grid Volumes: Off
• Water Quality: Off

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

Camera

• World Motion Blur: Off
• Weapon Motion Blur: Off
• Film Grain: 0.00
• 1st Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
• 3rd Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
• 3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
• Spectator Camera: Game Perspective
• Inverted Flashbang: Off

Setting your FOV slightly lower will lessen the load on your PC for those with lower-end builds.

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
• NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On+Boost
• Eco Mode Preset: Custom
• 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: 0

High Dynamic Range

• High Dynamic Range (HDR): Off

Global Quality

• Quality Presets: Custom
• Render Resolution: 100
• Dynamic Resolution: Off
• Upscaling / Sharpening: FidelityFX CAS
  • AMD Fidelity CAS Strength: 85
• Path Tracing + Ray Reconstruction: Off
• VRAM Scale Target: 75
• Variable Rate Shading: Off

Details & Textures

• Texture Resolution: Normal
• Texture Filter Anisotropic: Normal
• Depth of Field: Off
• Detail Quality Level: Normal
• Particle Resolution: Low / Normal – Has a significant impact on FPS
• Bullet Impacts: On
• Persistent Effects: On
• Shader Quality: Medium
• On-Demand Texture Streaming: Minimal
  • Allocated Texture Cache Size: 16
  • Download Limits: On
  • Daily Download Limit (GB): 1.0
• Local Texture Streaming Quality: Low

Shadow & Lighting

• Shadow Quality: Normal
• Screen Space Shadows: Off
• Ambient Occlusion: Off
• Screen Space Reflections: Off
• Static Reflection Quality: High

Environment

• Tessellation: Off
• Volumetric Quality: Low
• Deferred Physics Quality: Off
• Weather Grid Volumes: Off
• Water Quality: Off

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

Camera

• World Motion Blur: Off
• Weapon Motion Blur: Off
• Film Grain: 0.00
• 1st Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
• 3rd Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
• 3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
• Spectator Camera: Game Perspective
• Inverted Flashbang: Off

Warzone PC system requirements

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

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How to update graphics drivers

How to update NVIDIA graphics drivers

If you have an NVIDIA graphics card, the GeForce Experience app will update your graphics drivers for you:

1. Download GeForce Experience through NVIDIA.com.
2. Open GeForce Experience.
3. Select the ‘Drivers’ tab.
4. Click ‘check for updates’ in the upper right corner.
5. 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:

1. Right-click on your desktop.
2. Select AMD Radeon Settings.
3. Click on the Home icon.
4. Click ‘New Updates’ on the bottom left.
5. Select ‘check for update.’
6. If an update is available, follow the steps.

If you’re facing problems with your FPS or display, you might need to have the latest versions of your graphics drivers installed. Ensuring they’re up to date should avoid any problems running the game.

How to use NVIDIA DLSS

1. Launch Warzone.
2. Head to Settings and navigate to the Graphics tab.
3. Select Quality then open the Upscaling/Sharpening drop-down list.
4. Click on NVIDIA DLSS.
5. For more options, click Show More where you can select the quality and strength.

NVIDIA DLSS software boosts your FPS while keeping the resolution high, so if you have an RTX graphics card, it’s worth using the handy feature.

If you’re playing at 1440p, you should only need the Quality or Balanced settings. If you’re playing on 4K resolution, or are suffering from a low frame rate, you can use Performance or Ultra Performance to squeeze out as many frames as possible.

Pair these Warzone settings with the best guns and Perks and you’ll be all set to dominate, no matter the map or mode.