The color scheme of Call of Duty Warzone makes it rather hard to see enemies. This is particularly difficult in dark locations, or at a distance. Unlike other Call of Duty games, you can’t just bump up the brightness settings. Increasing the brightness will cause your game to look foggy, making it hard to see. However, you do have alternative options to help improve your visibility on Warzone.
The graphic design for Warzone follows the likeness of its title release, Modern Warfare. Although most CoD games follow a similar graphic style, there are still many differences. This means that our recommended Call of Duty: Cold War settings differ from Warzone.
- Adjust brightness.
- Use the square mini map.
- Disable motion blur.
- Turn off film grain.
- Increase field of view.
- Use colorblind mode.
- Use Nvidia game filters.
- Change Nvidia control panel settings.
- Optimize screen color settings.
Warzone Settings for Visibility
There are several game settings that you can change to allow you to see better in Warzone. It is important to get these settings right so you can see everything around you without obstruction.
Brightness
To start you will need to open your general settings and locate the brightness settings. There is a brightness guide that will help you set your colors appropriately for your monitor. Typically following the guide will give you the best result. However, you may like to have the “Not Visible” option slightly seen to help with seeing enemies in shadows.
Mini Map
In the general settings, you can also customize your HUD. This allows you to choose between a circle or square mini map. The square mini map is larger by nature. A larger mini map helps you see more enemies on the radar.
Motion Blur
New Call of Duty games have a motion blur feature. Motion blur helps add to the cinematic feel of the game. While this is great for the campaign, it’s a different story for multiplayer.
The motion blur distorts the image and can be the difference between you seeing an enemy or not. In Modern Warfare there are two types of motion blur, weapon, and world. You can disable both motion blur options in the post processing section of the graphic settings.
Film Grain
Film grain adds a grainy noise to your gameplay. This can make it difficult to see a player in the distance. For maximum visibility, you want to set your film grain to zero.
Depth of Field
The depth of field will blur out of focused areas of the screen. This can make it harder to see other players at a distance. It is best to disable depth of field for Warzone.
Anti-Aliasing
Anti-aliasing controls the method used to smoothen out edges. Using either SMAA 1X or SMAA T2X option will make players stand out by defining their outline. Having anti-aliasing enabled will also make the graphics look better without impacting the frame rate too much.
Field of View
If you’re playing on PC, then you have the option to change your field of view. Increasing your field of view will widen the visible area around you. A wider FOV is helpful if there is a player to your side, that would otherwise be hidden.
Increasing your field of view will make the camera look like it is sitting further back. Decreasing the size of players and objects. This makes rooms and fields look larger and can also make seeing distant enemies difficult.
Your field of view will need to be set to your personal preference. Anywhere from 100 to 120 should work well. A FOV of 110 is a happy medium that many players use.
Best Nvidia Game Filter for Warzone
PC gamers with an Nvidia graphics card can make use of GeForce Experience game filters to increase visibility. To use these filters you will need to have GeForce Experience installed, with the shadowplay feature.
- With Warzone open you can launch the GeForce interface via the keyboard shortcut Alt + Z.
- Click the “Game Filters” option.
- Select one of the numbers to create a new filter preset.
- Use the dropdown menu to add a new Brightness / Contrast layer.
- Add a Details layer and a Color layer.
- Click on each of the filter layers to expand the settings, then copy the settings below.
Brightness/Contrast
Exposure: 0
Contrast: 5
Highlights: between -20 and -50
Shadows: between -30 and -70
Gamma: 0
Details
Sharpen: between 30 and 80
Clarity: 20
HDR Toning: 15
Bloom: 0
Color
Tint Color: 0
Tint Intensity: 0
Temperature: 0
Vibrance: between 20 and 75
Feel free to adjust them to your liking. The color layer is also optional, it is used solely to increase the vibrance of colors in Warzone.
Display Settings
Warzone is also played on console. Consoles don’t have as much freedom or control over graphics. Making players easier to see on console may be as simple as changing your monitor or TV settings. Most modern screens come with some sort of color tuning tools. You can use these to adjust how your display looks.
Popular esports monitors often include features that can greatly improve in-game visibility, with motion blur reduction technology and black eQualizer settings. Motion blur reduction helps make it easier to see and track moving targets in Warzone.
Although each screen is different, there are some settings you should adjust for improving game clarity. Typically increasing contrast, sharpening and vibrance can help. Also decreasing the highlights, shadows, and exposure can also make seeing enemies easier.
Best Nvidia Control Panel Settings for Warzone
If you don’t want to use a game filter, you can also adjust your color settings using the Nvidia control panel. The control panel allows you to adjust settings and colors to better optimize your gameplay and performance.
You can open the control panel by right-clicking on your desktop and choosing the Nvidia control panel option.
Nvidia Color Settings
Choose “Adjust desktop color settings” under the display tab in the left panel. Here you can play with your brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, and digital vibrance settings. You can control these settings for every individual monitor.
Select the monitor that you’re playing on, then enable NVIDIA settings.
The recommended settings will greatly differ depending on your monitor. Typically increasing the contrast and brightness will help make it easier to see in dark locations. If you’d like to make Warzone more colorful, then increasing the digital vibrance will achieve this effect.
Apply the settings to see how your adjustments look in-game.
Nvidia 3D Settings for Performance
Adjusting the Nvidia 3D settings can help improve the frame rate and performance in Warzone. These settings are typically the best for most games, so you will want to set them as global settings.
The Nvidia control panel also lets you set program-specific settings. This allows you to make adjustments to each game individually to optimize it to your liking. To create custom Warzone settings you will need to add the Modern Warefare executable file.
Conclusion
Regardless of if you’re on PC or Console, there are some visibility improvements that you can make. With the right game, monitor, and graphic settings, you can fine-tune Warzone so you can see enemies easier. A lot of the graphics options are based on personal preference, however, they go a long way to make Call of Duty look better.
