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Best visual settings in Modern Warfare 3

At least these settings won't make you sweat.

It seems like Modern Warfare 3 will be able to run on most PC rigs out there. This is good news for many who are running weaker systems. With games becoming even more taxing on even the beefiest systems, one would assume upgrades would have to be done sooner rather than later nowadays.

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Follow along to get the best visual settings in Modern Warfare 3.

Modern Warfare 3: Best visual settings

Since everyone’s PC is a little different, no one will have the same experience, the settings below should work for a wide range of setups.

  • Quality Present: Recommended
  • Render Resolution: 100
  • Dynamic Resolution: Off
  • Upscaling and Sharpening: FidelityFX CAS
  • FidelityyFX CAS Strength: 65
  • Anti-Aliasing Quality: SMAA T2X
  • VRAM Scale Target: 80
  • Variable Rate Shading: Off
  • Video Memory Scale: 90
  • Texture Resolution Scale: Low or Medium 
  • Texture Filter Anisotropic: Normal
  • Depth of field: On
  • Detail Level: Low or Medium
  • Distant Level of Detail: High
  • Clutter Draw Distance: Short

These settings can be tweaked a bit to your liking, so consider them a more of a starting point rather than a surefire fix. If you have an Nvidia 3000 series and above video card or AMD’s equivalent, consider upping these settings a bit since your GPU and likely handle it. Thankfully, the recommended specs for Modern Warfare 3 are not that high. So you have a lot of room to play around.

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Additionally, I recommend updating your drivers. Updated drivers can ensure fps improvements, higher resolutions, and can deliver an overall boost to PC performance. On top of that, make sure you close any programs that are taking up your CPU memory. The game does eat quite a bit of CPU power, so freeing up even a little could make a world of difference.

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Modern Warfare 3 is available for pre-order via Battle.net.


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Raza Malik
Raza is a Contributing Writer who's been at PC Invasion since March 2023. After he earned his Media Arts degree at Niagara College, he went on to grow his portfolio by working at such publications as GameRant. While he plays a wide array of different types of games, Raza enjoys discussing open-world games, shooters, and live service games. Some of his favorite series include Assassin's Creed, God of War, and the Diablo series. On the side, he enjoys editing videos, and creating content for his side project Marching Into Madness.
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