CoD MW2: The best settings for high FPS on PC

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a hard-hitting PvP shooter where every millisecond counts. That’s why you’ll find the best settings for more FPS on the PC on MeinMMO.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 wows fans worldwide with the high level of detail and how realistic it looks. Accordingly, it will certainly be difficult for many to downplay the breathtaking graphics.

If you want to get the best possible FPS out of the shooter, however, this is a necessary evil. Many professionals also play first-person shooters in low settings and thus deliberately forego graphic splendor.

We will therefore show you what the best graphics settings are for high FPS in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the PC.

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Where does our information come from? We have viewed several guides and YouTube videos for you and tried out the settings for you on the PC.

Important: Please note, however, that your personal taste and habits play a major role here. Accordingly, it is possible that some of these suggestions may not appeal to you.

The most important settings for high FPS

Why should I adjust my graphics settings at all? As with other games, the following applies to CoD: Modern Warfare 2: the lower the graphics settings, the better the performance. If you want to improve this, it is always worth taking a look at the settings.

All important information about the latest Call of Duty can be found in this article:

Display Settings

If you open the graphics settings, you first get to the display tab. In this tab you can then make a few of the most elementary settings for high FPS.

• Display mode: Exclusive full screen mode
• refresh rate: Hertz number of your monitor
• Dynamic resolution: Out of
• V sync (game): Out of
• V Sync (Menu): Out of
• Custom refresh rate limit: Gameplay: max FPS, Menu: 100 FPS
• Brightness: 55

Display mode: If you select the exclusive full-screen mode here, the game will be allocated the most capacity of your system. For high FPS and the best latency, we would therefore recommend you to select this mode. Windowed mode is only worthwhile if you have multiple monitors and want to switch between them quickly.

refresh rate: This is by far the most important setting if you are aiming for a good FPS value. It is therefore essential to set the refresh rate to the highest level adapted to your monitor. As with any other game, the frame rate you will have ultimately depends on your output device. Therefore, make sure that this value is not lower than the hertz number of your monitor.

Dynamic resolution: With this setting you can set a desired refresh rate to which the game will automatically adjust the resolution depending on whether you are below or above this value. This can be helpful in the worst case, but it can also make your image look dirty, which affects your vision and gameplay.

V sync (game): With V-Sync you limit the frame rate according to the Hertz number of your monitor, which prevents tearing. With tearing, the image is “torn” on a horizontal length. But you’re not doing your latency any favors. So better turn off Vertical Sync.

Custom refresh rate limit: Here you can set your own maximum FPS number. Accordingly, make sure that the value in the gameplay slider is set to the maximum. For the menu you can then limit the value to 100 FPS, for example, to protect your hardware a little.

Brightness: Be sure to set this value a bit higher. We recommend a value of 55. The higher brightness provides a better view, but is also heavily dependent on your monitor.

In this article you will find an overview of all maps in multiplayer mode:

quality settings

Now we continue with the quality settings. In which you can make numerous presets. Basically, here too, you should select the options that best correspond to your GPU.

• Quality presets: Balanced
• render resolution: 100
• Antialiasing: SMAA T2X
• antialiasing quality: Low
• Texture resolution: Low
• Anisotropic texture filter: High
• Detail level close: Low
• Level of Detail Removed: Low
• Particle quality: Low
• Particle quality level: Low
• Shader quality: Low
• tessellation: Out of
• terrain storage: Max
• On Demand Texture Streaming: Out of
• Streaming quality: Low
• Volumetric quality: Low
• Quality delayed physics: Low
• Shadow Map Resolution: Low or very low
• Ambient Occlusion: Out of

Quality presets: Here the graphics of the game are automatically set to the quality level you have selected. This is of course comfortable and saves you a lot of work, but with individual readjustments you could possibly provide even more FPS and better latency. In principle, however, we would recommend setting the default setting to “Balanced”. This should give you a good compromise between performance and image quality.

render resolution: As long as you don’t have any performance problems with the game, you should keep your hands off this setting. Also, there are better ways to increase your FPS.

Upscaling / sharpening: Under this setting you can activate AMD’s FSR or Nvidia’s DLSS. The technology behind it lets the GPU calculate the image in a lower resolution and then upscales it again. This is done with an artificial intelligence algorithm and, in the best case, can give you a decent performance boost with almost the same image quality.

antialiasing and antialiasing quality: Here you should activate the “regular” SMAA. This gives you a sharper and clearer picture than the cinematic SMAA. For better performance, we also recommend setting the antialiasing quality to too low.

Texture resolution: Of course it hurts to deliberately make such a beautiful game a little less attractive. However, if you are only concerned with getting the best performance out of Modern Warfare 2, we recommend that you set the resolution to low.

Anisotropic texture filter: Here you should definitely leave the setting on high. The setting is very useful, especially in terms of visibility, and nowadays it costs almost no performance.

Level of Detail Distant and Level of Detail Near: The same applies here: if you are only interested in the best FPS for the multiplay mode, you should set both detail levels to low.

Particle quality: If you reduce this value, you may be able to increase the FPS a little further, since not as many particles have to be rendered by the graphics card. This is especially useful in action-packed moments.

Particle quality level: You should set this setting to low, but don’t expect too much impact on performance or appearance.

Shader quality: Low. The increase in performance is manageable, but so is the loss in image quality.

tessellation: Definitely exhibit this setting! In the campaign, the extra detail and depth is certainly nice, but it costs you way too much performance for multiplayer.

terrain storage: Lowering this setting won’t give you any additional FPS, but will definitely make the game less enjoyable. Therefore leave the setting on “Max”.

On Demand Texture Streaming: Turn off this setting. Otherwise, the game will stream high-resolution textures from the Internet. This saves you space on the hard drive; but it depends quite a bit on the internet connection and partly also on the performance.

Volumetric quality: Low. This setting gives you a decent FPS boost

Quality delayed physics: Again, you can tease out a few more FPS if you turn off the setting. The setting controls the quality of the water physics, but since many levels don’t have this at all, you can safely do without it.

Shadow Map Resolution: Image quality will suffer, but be sure to set this setting to low or very low to get a solid performance boost.

Ambient Occlusion: In the campaign, the more beautiful shadows are nice to look at, but you should definitely disable the option in multiplayer mode for a huge boost in your FPS.

You can read about the additional content planned for the upcoming CoD: MW2 Battle Pass here:

View Settings

Now we come to the last relevant settings if you want to improve your performance. However, these settings are very individual and you should personalize them according to your own preferences.

Field of View (FOV): How much of the area you want to see is a personal preference. A larger field of view can cost you a few FPS, since more additional scenery has to be calculated, but it also significantly improves your gameplay in multiplayer mode. That’s why we suggest you to set the value to the maximum of 120.

Aimer FOV, Weapon FOV, Vehicle FOV: You can adjust these settings completely according to your personal preferences.

Camera: For both settings, we recommend going down to 50% to reduce image shake a bit.

What are your experiences with the settings for more FPS in CoD MW2? Do you have a trick we can add to our guide? Leave a comment on the topic.