Activision’s latest entry in the Call of Duty first-person shooter series, Black Ops 6, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for Call of Duty Black Ops 6 on PC, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
DISPLAY
- Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive
- Screen Refresh Rate: as per the max refresh rate of your display
- Display Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- VSync (Gameplay): 0%
- VSync (Menus): 100%
- Render Resolution: 100
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaling/Sharpening: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else Intel XeSS, else AMD FSR
- Upscaling/Sharpening Preset: Quality
- VRAM Scale Target: 85
QUALITY
- Texture Resolution: High
- Texture Filtering: Ultra
- Depth of Field: Off
- Detail Quality: High
- Particle Resolution: Medium
- Bullet Impacts: On
- Persistent Effects: On
- Shader Quality: High
- On-Demand Texture Streaming: Optimized
- Local Texture Streaming Quality: Normal
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Screen Space Shadows: Low
- Occlusion and Screen Space Lighting: Normal
- Screen Space Reflections: Normal
- Static Reflection Quality: Low
- Tessellation: All
- Volumetric Quality: Low
- Deferred Physics Quality: Low
- Weather Grid Volumes: Low
- Water Quality: Water Caustics
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
DISPLAY
- Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive
- Screen Refresh Rate: 60
- Display Resolution: 1280 x 800
- VSync (Gameplay): 100%
- VSync (Menus): 100%
- Custom Frame Rate Limit: Custom
- Gameplay Custom Frame Rate Limit: 45
- Menu Custom Frame Rate Limit: 45
- Render Resolution: 84
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaling/Sharpening: Intel XeSS
- Upscaling/Sharpening Preset: Balanced
- VRAM Scale Target: 85
QUALITY
- Texture Resolution: Low
- Texture Filtering: High
- Depth of Field: Off
- Detail Quality: Normal
- Particle Resolution: Very Low
- Bullet Impacts: On
- Persistent Effects: On
- Shader Quality: Medium
- On-Demand Texture Streaming: Optimized
- Local Texture Streaming Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Screen Space Shadows: Low
- Occlusion and Screen Space Lighting: Low
- Screen Space Reflections: Normal
- Static Reflection Quality: Low
- Tessellation: All
- Volumetric Quality: Low
- Deferred Physics Quality: Low
- Weather Grid Volumes: Low
- Water Quality: Water Caustics
As seen in the video, the settings mentioned above allow Call of Duty Black Ops 6 to generally run at 45 fps range during gameplay. In order to get a relatively consistent frame time delivery, the in-game Custom Frame Rate Limit is set to 45.
