In the competitive world of multiplayer battle royale, maintaining a consistently high frame rate is crucial for getting the best results; even small frame rate drops can make it harder to compete. So newly detailed settings to maximize frame rates inCall of Duty: Warzonewill help gamers, especially those who want to becompetitive in the highly popular game modewithout first throwing down tons of money on high spec equipment.
The information comes from eSports gaming site Dexerto, and providesCall of Duty: Warzonesettings that maintain 1080p resolution, which is important for aiming and visibility, but reduces effects that tax the graphics card and CPU significantly. Of course, gamers with better hardware can also use these settings as a starting point, and try adding one or two extra effects, or higher resolution if they want a bit more visual polish.
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The recommended settings are:
Display Settings:Display Mode: Full Screen; Screen Refresh Rate: 144Hz (or as high as the monitor supports); Render Resolution: 100% (Reducing will reduce your resolution below 1080p); V-Sync: Disabled; NVIDIA Highlights: Disabled; NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Enabled + Boost.
Details and Textures:Texture Resolution: Low; Texture Filter Anisotropic: Normal; Particle Quality: High; Tessellation: Disabled; On-demand Texture Streaming: Disabled; Streaming Quality: Low.
Shadow and Lighting:Shadow Map Resolution: Low; Cache Spot Shadows: Enabled; Cache Sun Shadows: Enabled; Particle Lighting: Low; DirectX Ray tracing: Disabled; Ambient Occlusion: Disabled; Screen Space Reflection (SSR): Disabled.
Post Processing Effects:Anti-Aliasing: Off; Depth of Field: Disabled; Filmic Strength: 1.00; World Motion Blur: Disabled; Weapon Motion Blur: Disabled.
Other:Dismemberment & Gore Effects: Disabled
While gamers used to high visual settings may find the lower detail a bit jarring at first, these settings will certainly increase frame rates substantially, and may end up being the small difference between winning and losing. They will be especially useful forCall of Duty: Warzonegamers using laptops, which lack the brute force of desktop hardware. The other simple thing that will boost frame rates is updating graphics drivers, to ensure that the hardware is as optimized as possible.Xbox Series X owners are in luck too, as 120Hz mode is now availableon the new console.
There are two easy ways toget higher frame rates inCall of Duty: Warzoneand other titles, lower the visual quality settings, or buy more powerful hardware. These settings do a great job with the former, but gamers who are on the lookout for updated hardware are in luck, as the latest desktop hardware from AMD and Nvidia provide excellent boosts in CPU or graphics, with better FPS per dollar performance than the previous generation of hardware.
The only difficulty is finding the new hardware in stock, which means these frame rate boosting setting may still come in handy until availability improves.
Call of Duty: Warzoneis available now on PC, PlayStation4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
