To play at your best in Black Ops 6 multiplayer, you’ll need to lock in the best PC settings to have higher and smoother framerates, faster response times, and less lag.

Using the best controller or mouse and keyboard settings is extremely important, but with Omnimovement raising the skill gap, having high FPS and fast response times will also give you a huge advantage.

Since you’ll want to maximize your FPS to the fullest, here are the best PC settings to use in this year’s Call of Duty as of Season 2 Reloaded.

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Best PC settings in BO6 Season 2 Reloaded

Display

• Display Mode: Fullscreen Borderless
• Display Monitor: Your primary monitor
• Display Adapter: Your primary graphics card (GPU)
• Screen Refresh Rate: Your monitor’s max refresh rate (e.g. 60hz, 120hz, 144hz)
• Display Resolution: Your primary monitor’s resolution (e.g. 1920×1080, 2560×1440, 3840×2160)
• Aspect Ratio: Automatic
• Display Gamma: 2.2 (sRGB)
• Gamma/Brightness: 55
• NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: On
• Eco Mode Preset:Efficiency
• V-Sync (Gameplay): Off
• V-Sync (Menus): Off
• Custom Framerate Limit: Unlimited
  • Cap this setting to your monitor’s refresh rate if your game suffers from stuttering.
• ReducedMenu Render Resolution: Optimal
• Pause Game Rendering: On
• Reduce Quality When Inactive: 10 Minutes
• Focused Mode: 90
• High Dynamic Range (HDR): On
  • Only visible if you are using an HDR-enabled display

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Quality

• Quality Presents: Custom
• Render Resolution: 100
• Dynamic Resolution: Off
• Upscaling/Sharpening: NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR 3, or Intel XeSS depending on your GPU.
  • AMD Fidelity CAS Strength: 85
  • NVIDIA DLSS Sharpness: 0
  • Intel XeSS: Ultra Quality
• VRAM Scale Target: 80 – Lower this further if you experience hitching or Packet Burst.
• Variable Rate Shading: Off

Details and Textures

• Texture Resolution: Normal
• Texture Filter Anisotropic:Low
• Depth of Field: Off
• Detail Quality: Low
• Particle Resolution: Very Low
• Bullet Impacts: On
• Persistent Effects: On
• Shader Quality: Low
• On-Demand Texture Streaming: Minimal
  • Allocated Texture Cache Size: 16 GB
  • Download Limits: On
• Local Texture Streaming Quality: Normal

On-Demand Texture Streaming is now turned on by default and can’t be turned off, so the best workaround is tomake sure it’s Minimal, set the Allocated Texture Cache Size to 30, and turn Download Limitson with the lowest limit possible. This will disable the setting once 1GB has been downloaded.

Shadow and Lighting

• Shadow Quality: Very Low
• Screen Space Shadows: Off
• Occlusion and Screen Space Lighting: Low
• Screen Space Reflections: Off
• Static Reflection Quality: Low

Shader Quality has a big impact on performance, so some players may want to set it to Very Low rather than just Low. However, this will make shadows appear pixellated and unnatural. From our testing, using Low provides the best balance of performance and visual fidelity. Otherwise, everything under the Shadow and Lighting section should be disabled.

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Environment

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

While disabling all of the Environment settings technically gives the best performance, lowering Water Quality doesn’t have a particularly big impact. As such, it’s worth raising this setting slightly while lowering all the others as much as possible.

If you prioritize visuals over performance, consider changing Tessellation to either Near or All too. When enabled, this gives certain textures a 3D effect that makes the world feel less flat. This will affect your FPS, but it makes a big difference to visual quality, so you’ll have to decide if the trade-off is worthwhile.

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View

• Motion Reduction Preset: Off
• Arachnophobia Mode:Preference
• Field of View: 95 – 115
• ADS Field of View: Affected
• Weapon Field of View: Default
• 3rd Person Field of View: 90
• Vehicle Field of View: Default

The FOV sweet spot for most players is between 95and 115. This offers the best visibility and makes sure you aren’t missing out on vital information at the edges of your screen, which is really important in multiplayer given how fast-paced the action is.

You’ll also want to make sure your ADS Field of View is set to Affected, as this matches your FOV when aimed in to your regular FOV. Not only does this make ADS less jarring, but it also reduces visual recoil, so it becomes easier to track targets at longer distances.

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Camera

• World Motion Blur: Off
• Weapon Motion Blur: Off
• 1 Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
• 3 Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)
• 3rd Person ADS Transition: 3rd Person ADS
• Inverted Flashbang:On

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You’ll want to turn off all types of Motion Blur and Film Grain, as it causes unnecessary visual clutter on your screen. The Inverted Flashbang setting turns your screen black instead of a blinding white, so it’s a nice quality-of-life feature to turn on.

Depending on your PC specs, you can expect to get at least triple-digit FPS with these settings, although they won’t make your game look the prettiest. Feel free to experiment around with your settings to find the perfect balance of performance and visuals.

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PC system requirements

Minimum Requirements	Recommended Specs	Competitive/4K Ultra Specs
Operating System	Windows 10 64 bit (latest update)	Windows 10 64 bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 bit (latest update)	Windows 10 64 bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 bit (latest update)
Video	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, AMD Radeon RX 470, or Intel Arc A580	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti, AMD Radeon RX 6600XT, or Intel Arc A770	NIVIDA GeForce RTX 3080 / RTX 4070, or AMD Radeon RX 6800XT
Video Memory	2 GB	8 GB	10 GB
CPU	Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400	Intel Core i7-6700K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X	Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
RAM	8 GB RAM	12 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Internet	Broadband Internet connection	Broadband Internet connection	Broadband Internet connection
Storage	SSD with 102 GB available space at launch	SSD with 102 GB available space at launch	SSD with 102 GB available space at launch

How to update graphics drivers

Update NVIDIA graphics drivers

1. Download the NVIDIA App, previously known as GeForce Experience, through NVIDIA.com and then launch it.
2. Go to the ‘Drivers’ tab.
3. Hit the ‘Download‘ button in the top right corner.
4. Wait for the download to finish, and then install the drivers. It is recommended to restart your PC after this process finishes.

Update AMD graphics drivers

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

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