Best PC settings for Modern Warfare 3: High FPS, visibility, graphics, more
Max Candelarezi
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is one of the biggest competitive shooter titles in 2024. Whether you’re hopping into Ranked Play or regular multiplayer, here are the best PC settings for MW3 Season 1 Reloaded, helping you boost your FPS, enemy visibility, and more.
However, if you wish to truly enjoy the content and dominate your matches, you’ll need to optimize your PC’s performance. While you could jack up the settings to the maximum for the best graphics, it will put a lot of stress on your PC, leading to low FPS and stutters, along with regular spikes in your GPU’s temperature.
To avoid all of the above, you can simply use the best Modern Warfare 3 PC settings in Season 1 Reloaded, ensuring high FPS and smooth gameplay.
Modern Warfare 3 PC system requirements
Before you jump into Modern Warfare 3 and start adjusting the settings, you can check out the system requirements:
Best MW3 graphics settings for low-end hardware
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Having the best graphic settings in Modern Warfare 3 will help you dominate your enemies.
Display
Display Mode: Fullscreen Exclusive
Display Monitor: Your primary gaming monitor
Display Adaptor: Your graphics card
Screen Refresh Rate: Refresh rate of your monitor (e.g. 144)
Display Resolution: Your monitor’s resolution (e.g. 1090×1080)
Running Modern Warfare 3 on your PC with an outdated graphics driver can lead to significant problems. To achieve the best gameplay experience, we highly recommend ensuring that your graphics drivers are updated to their latest version, and here’s how:
How to update NVIDIA graphics driver
If you have an NVIDIA graphics card, the GeForce Experience app will handle this for you.
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