Black Ops Cold War: The best settings to improve your FPS...

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is finally available, and players around the world will now be busy exploring all of its content. However, some PC gamers face several issues that impact game performance. Here’s how to improve your frame rate and avoid issues.

The franchise Call of Duty is far from new to PC releases, yet that doesn’t prevent every new game from experiencing various performance issues. If it is obvious that it is difficult, not to say impossible to foresee an optimization on all the different configurations, it is nonetheless extremely frustrating to find yourself as a player faced with a game that does not work correctly despite a powerful hardware. . In fact, just a few hours after the game’s release, several PC gamers are already reporting major FPS concerns that have drastically impacted the gameplay of the game.

There is indeed nothing worse than being in the middle of a shootout only to be killed because of a sudden drop in your FPS. It is imperative, especially for a game like CoD, to always have a constant number of frames per second for a pleasant gaming experience and thus better crush your opponents. To help reduce the current FPS issues in Black Ops Cold War, we’ve noted several tweaks to check in your game settings.

The best PC settings for Black Ops Cold War

Call of Duty pro player Justin “SILLY” Fargo-Palmer is one of the many players to have encountered these problems on his PC version of the game. With the following settings, SILLY managed to display between 170 and 180 FPS . It is also, important to note that these performances were recorded while it was streaming and it is therefore not impossible that you may exceed this figure depending on your machine.

In order to boost your FPS on Black Ops Cold War, go to the settings menu (bottom left) and click on the Graphics tab then follow the following instructions:

Equipment

• Display mode : Full screen
• Refresh rate: 144 Hz (depending on your screen)
• Vertical game synchronization : Without
• Vertical menu synchronization: Without
• Display Ratio: 16:9

Display

• Field of view : 105
• Sight field of view: Predefined
• Limit frames per second: Unlimited
• Limit of images per second in reduced window: 60

Details and textures

• Texture quality: Very weak
• Quality of the models: Low
• Quality of special effects: Average)
• Reflections on the screen: Low
• Viewing distance of objects: Low

Shadows and lighting

• Volumetric lighting: Low
• Shadow quality: Low
• Dynamic shadows: All
• Shadows of special effects: Without
• Shadow of Weapons: Without

Ray Tracing

• Ray Tracing – Shadows of the sun: Without
• Ray Tracing- Local Ombres: Without
• Ray Tracing – Occlusion ambiante : Without

Post-processing effects

• NVIDIA DLSS : Quality
• Quality of ambient occlusion: Without
• Motion blur: Without
• Motion blur quality: Low
• Transluminescence : With
• Transparency quality: Low

Advanced

• Target use of VRAM: Low (70%)
• Display gamma: Computer (sRGB)

The suggested settings should help your computer reduce performance slumps in Black Ops Cold War, and we recommend that you run several tests to see how your machine responds if it struggles to maintain a constant FPS count.