Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has launched and MeinMMO shows you how to optimize the shooter on your PC for as many FPS as possible.
Why are these settings relevant? Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 may not have extremely high system requirements, but not every player has a modern gaming PC that can handle the various settings at high or ultra.
Since Call of Duty is primarily a competitive multiplayer game, many players want to achieve as many frames per second (FPS) as possible while still having a visually appealing gaming experience where they can clearly identify opposing players.
When optimizing the settings, it can help to lower or even disable certain graphics options. Below, we show you which settings you can do without.
The best graphics settings for CoD Black Ops 7 on PC
This is where you make changes to the graphics: First, you need to open the settings of Black Ops 7 and navigate to the “Graphics” tab. There, you will now find four submenus: Display, Quality, View, and Benchmark. The latter starts a test to find out how many frames per second you average in different scenarios.
For the following settings, switch to the “Quality” submenu. There, for example, you can change the quality of textures or shadows.
General Quality
- Graphics settings: Custom
- Render resolution: Variable: A high value increases image quality, a low value improves performance
- Dynamic resolution: Off
- Upscaling/Sharpening: Off or depending on the hardware used, such as NVIDIA DLSS or AMD’s FSR
- AMD FSR 3 Frame Generation: Off
- Raytracing Reflections: Off
- VRAM Scaling Target: 85-90 %
- Variable Rate Shading: On
The VRAM scaling target indicates how much VRAM your graphics card is utilizing for Black Ops 7. Often, you can easily set this to 85-90% to get more out of your graphics card. However, if you experience stuttering, you do not have enough VRAM left for other programs. In that case, lower it, for example, to 80%.
Details & Textures
- Texture resolution: Normal
- Anisotropic Texture Filter: High
- Depth of Field: Off
- Detail Quality: Low
- Particle Resolution: Very Low
- Hit Impact: Off
- Permanent Effects: Off
- Shader Quality: Low
- Texture Streaming on Demand: Minimal
- Local Texture Streaming Quality:
- In-Game Video Quality: Low
With the settings “Texture resolution” and “Anisotropic Texture Filter”, you can notice the greatest visual difference, as these options influence the resolution and quality of textures. Feel free to set it to “High” (texture resolution) and “Ultra” (anisotropic texture filter) if your graphics card has enough video memory. If you have a graphics card with more than 8 GB of video memory, you can set it to “High” or higher.
For more FPS or when your graphics memory is stretched, it’s best to gradually lower these settings. A good mix of visuals and FPS for systems that meet the recommended system requirements is “Normal” (texture resolution) and “High” (anisotropic texture filter).
Shadows & Lighting
- Shadow Quality: Very Low
- Screen Space Shadows: Off
- Occlusion and Screen Space Lighting: Off
- *Screen Space Reflections: Off
- Static Reflection Quality: Low
Environment
- Terrain Quality: Very Low
- *Volumetric Quality: Low
- Delayed Physics Quality: Off
- *Weather Effects Quality: Off
- *Water Quality: Off
In the shadow, lighting, and environment settings, you can set everything to “Off” or “Low”/”Very Low”. Our tests showed that the visual impact on the game is comparatively small and you can gain some additional frames here.
The settings marked with a “*” can be turned on or increased depending on your preference if you want to specifically improve the visuals. While the water quality, screen space reflections, and weather effects quality changed very few FPS, increasing the volumetric quality in our benchmarks resulted in an FPS loss of over 5%. However, since the visual effects of these settings are still relatively minor, you can also gain FPS here.
Choose the right resolution: When you switch to the “Display” submenu in the “Graphics” tab, you can select the resolution. You can also gain additional frames per second here.
Keep in mind that individual graphics cards are optimized for different resolutions. Thus, research the ideal resolution for your graphics card and adjust it accordingly if your monitor allows it. Ideally, you will achieve more FPS this way. If not, set the resolution down to 1920×1080, for example.
If you are soon considering buying a new graphics card, MeinMMO’s tech expert Benedikt Schlotmann has written down some essential things you should keep in mind: What you should consider when buying a graphics card
