Best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for max FPS & visibility

Gray Zone Warfare’s engine requires a fine-tuning of your setup to run well. We’ve compiled the best PC settings so you can run the game smoothly.

Gray Zone Warfare has the best of Escape from Tarkov while bringing its own spin to the genre. However, some players are struggling to run this new PvPvE extraction title smoothly, so you’ll need to tune your PC to get the best experience with this realistic combat simulator.

Here are the best PC settings for Gray Zone Warfare, and its system requirements.

• Best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for high FPS
• Best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for graphics
• How to update graphics drivers for Gray Zone Warfare
• Does Gray Zone Warfare have DLSS & FSR?
• Gray Zone Warfare system requirements

Best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for high FPS

Here are the best PC settings for achieving high performance and FPS in Gray Zone Warfare:

Display

• Monitor: Your primary monitor
• Window Mode: Fullscreen
• Resolution: Depends on your monitor
• Vertical FOV: 65
• VSync: Off
• Brightness: 100
• Contrast: 100
• Saturation: 100
• Gamma: 100
• Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
• Frame Rate Limit (Background): 30 FPS

Quality

• Quality Presets: Custom
• 3D Resolution: N/A
• Global Illumination: Low
• Shadow Quality: Low
• Texture Resolution: Low
• Effects Quality: Low
• Reflections Quality: Low
• Foliage Quality: Low

Postprocessing

• Post Processing: Low
• Motion Blur: None
• Sharpening: 10
• Colorblind Mode: Off
• Colorblind Mode Strength: N/A

Advanced

• Anti-Aliasing/Upscaling method: FSR
• Anti-Aliasing Quality: N/A
• NVidia DLSS Super Resolution: N/A
• NVidia DLSS Sharpness: N/A
• NVidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
• FidelityFX Frame Generation: Off
• Fidelity FX Super Resolution: Performance
• XeSS Super Sampling: N/A

You’re welcome to turn on FidelityFX Frame Generation as it will give a big performance boost, but the game won’t feel as responsive. Unless it’s unplayable without it, we’d recommend leaving it off.

Best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for graphics

Here are the best Gray Zone Warfare PC settings for high graphics:

Display

• Monitor: Your primary monitor
• Window Mode: Fullscreen
• Resolution: Depends on your monitor
• Vertical FOV: 65
• VSync: Off
• Brightness: 100
• Contrast: 100
• Saturation: 100
• Gamma: 100
• Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
• Frame Rate Limit (Background): 30 FPS

Quality

• Quality Presets: Custom
• 3D Resolution: N/A
• Global Illumination: Medium
• Shadow Quality: Medium
• Texture Resolution: Medium
• Effects Quality: Low
• Reflections Quality: Low
• Foliage Quality: Low

Postprocessing

• Post Processing: Low
• Motion Blur: None
• Sharpening: 10
• Colorblind Mode: Off
• Colorblind Mode Strength: N/A

Advanced

• Anti-Aliasing/Upscaling method: FSR
• Anti-Aliasing Quality: N/A
• NVidia DLSS Super Resolution: N/A
• NVidia DLSS Sharpness: N/A
• NVidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
• FidelityFX Frame Generation: Off
• Fidelity FX Super Resolution: Quality
• XeSS Super Sampling: N/A

These are the best settings that you can apply in Gray Zone Warfare to make the game look the best it can while still being playable, as the FPS difference from Medium to High is incredibly high.

How to update graphics drivers for Gray Zone Warfare

If you’re facing problems with your FPS then make sure you have the latest versions of your graphics drivers.

Here’s how to update both NVIDIA and AMD graphic 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!

Does Gray Zone Warfare have DLSS & FSR?

Yes, Gray Zone Warfare has both DLSS 3 and FSR included. Experts on X recommend these upscaling methods and we can confirm they greatly boost the game’s performance to meet the hefty requirements:

Next tip – turn on FSR to add 30+ FPS https://t.co/L9AyBCZdz4 pic.twitter.com/XTcXig7YLF

— TactiGamer | Gray Man Lifestyle (@tactigray) April 30, 2024

Gray Zone Warfare system requirements

Here are the minimum and recommended system requirements to run Gray Zone Warfare on a PC:

	Minimum specs	Recommended specs
OS:	Windows 10, 64-bit (latest update)	Windows 10, 64-bit (latest update)
CPU:	Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600	Intel Core i7-9700K / AMD® Ryzen 5 3600X
Memory:	16 GB RAM	32 GB RAM
Graphics:	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 / AMD Radeon RX-5700 / Intel Arc A770	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070ti, AMD Radeon RX-6800
DirectX:	Version 12	Version 12
Storage:	40 GB	40 GB

And that is everything you need to know about the best PC settings to run Gray Zone Warfare. If you need help sorting out through the Faction Tasks in the game, we suggest you take a look at our Mission Guides, and here are the best loadouts for the AK-47 and the M4A1.