Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been making rounds due to it being the successor to 2019’s beloved Modern Warfare. Given the stunning graphics, ray tracing, and tons of options fans have been given to choose from, it can be tricky to choose the absolute best options in the game, especially if you play on PC. Seeing how the settings can directly impact how well you perform, we will cover the best Modern Warfare 2 PC settings in this guide.

The Best Modern Warfare 2 Settings For PC

Below are the best Modern Warfare 2 PC settings for getting the best FPS:

  • Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive, helps reduce latency
  • Display Monitor: Choose your primary display
  • Display Adapter: choose your graphics card
  • Screen Refresh rate: Adjust this by picking the highest setting your monitor has
  • Display Resolution: Depends on your GPU, 1080 is recommended for average and above average builds. Powerful GPUs can get away with 1440p and even 4k.
  • Dynamic Resolution: Off
  • Aspect Ratio: Automatic
  • V-Sync Gameplay: Off
  • V-Sync Menu: Off
  • Custom Frame Rate Limit: Custom
  • Gameplay Custom Frame Rate Limite: 300
  • Menu Custom Frame Rate Limit: 90
  • Out of focus Custom Frame Rate Limit: 30
  • Display Gamma: 2.2 (sRGB)
  • Brightness: Whatever feels the best as long as the visibility is relatively high
  • Focus Mode: Off

Below are the best quality settings for Modern Warfare 2 on PC:

  • Gameplay Custom Frame Rate Limite: 300

  • Menu Custom Frame Rate Limit: 90

  • Out of focus Custom Frame Rate Limit: 30

  • Quality Presets: Custom

  • Render Resolution: 100

  • Upscaling / Sharpening: FidelityFX CAS

  • FidelityFX CAS Strength: 65 – This will make the game sharper without impacting FPS much at all.

  • Anti-Aliasing: SMAA T2X

  • Anti-Aliasing Quality: Normal

  • Video Memory Scale: 90

  • Texture Resolution: Low

  • Texture Filter Anisotropic: High

  • Nearby Level of Detail: Low

  • Distant Level of Detail: Low

  • Clutter Draw Distance: Short

  • Particle Quality: High

  • Particle Quality Level: Low

  • Bullet Impacts & Sprays: On – Important for multiplayer gameplay

  • Shader Quality: Low

  • Tessellation: Off

  • Terrain Memory: Max

  • On-Demand Texture Streaming: Off

  • Streaming Quality: Low

  • Volumetric Quality: Low

  • Deferred Physics Quality: Low

  • Water Caustics: Off

  • Shadow Map Resolution: Low

  • Spot Shadow Quality: Low

  • Cache Spot Shadows: On

  • Spot Cache: Low

  • Cache Sun Shadows: On

  • Particle Lighting: Low

  • Ambient Occlusion: Off

  • Screen Space Reflections: Off

  • Static Reflection Quality: Low

  • Weather Grid Volumes: Off

  • Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: On

  • Depth of Field: Whatever feels best

  • World Motion Blur: Off

  • Weapon Motion Blur: Off

  • Film Grain: 0.00

Below are the best view settings for Modern Warfare 2 on PC:

  • FidelityFX CAS Strength: 65 – This will make the game sharper without impacting FPS much at all.

  • Field of View: 100–110 – A higher field of view will ensure players are able to perceive more of the map thus helping with visibility

  • ADS Field of View: Affected

  • Weapon Field of View: Default

  • 3rd Person Field of View: 80-100

  • Vehicle Field of View: Default

  • 1st Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)

  • 3rd Person Camera Movement: Least (50%)

  • 3rd Person ADS Transition: Your Preference

  • Default Spectator Camera: Your Preference

These are the best Modern Warfare 2 PC settings; for more tips, guides, info, and news, keep visiting The Nerd Stash!

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