This game so poorly optimized, that I’m pulling more FPS in 1440p than in 1080p and more FPS in Al Mazrah than in Vondel. A few things I found out about this game that are so mind-boggling.

I’ve recently upgraded my CPU and GPU to the R7 5800X3D and RX 6950XT, two pieces of hardware I thought would be pulling 250+ FPS in Warzone 2.0 at 1080p and struggling a bit with 1440p. Needless to say, I was way off. I’ve just finished with troubleshooting the different issues that arose with the upgrade, and finally sat down to play a bit of Warzone with my mates, and while they’re off, I’m just dabbling with the different settings and seeing which setup would be best and the most convenient to play on, and my findings are so far away from what I expected.

# Visual Noise

The first thing that I tried was maxing out all the graphics and relishing in the beauty of the game. Unfortunately, I was quickly given a reality check when I stepped into a building. The visual noise that was the result of the extreme graphics settings was so atrocious and so unbearable that made it almost impossible to play. What kind of visual noise I’m talking about? It’s [this one](https://imgur.com/a/kluACBo).

What on earth is even that? How do you mess up your own textures so bad that they look so abominable to the point of making it look worse than a picture from the 1800s? That’s unbelievable.

In order to remove this, I found out the best way is to disable all the graphics settings in the “Shadow and Lighting” section. I don’t know which one is causing the issue, and I couldn’t bother less. I started activating and deactivating them one by one and lost motivation halfway through after trying like 4 of them.

# For some unknown reason, I’m pulling more FPS in 1440p than in 1080p, which doesn’t make sense

As shown in these 2 videos, one is in 1440p and the other is in 1080p, lowest competitive settings with Fidelity at 90%, notice how in 1080p in Al Akhdhar village, I’m pulling 10-20 FPS less than in 1440p. In 1440p, the FPS is floating around 170 while in 1080p, it maxes at 170 and floats around 150.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOCF72GKQE&t=281s&ab\_channel=SoldatX](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOCF72GKQE&t=281s&ab_channel=SoldatX)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJd76HZq-TQ&ab\_channel=SoldatX](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJd76HZq-TQ&ab_channel=SoldatX)

# Al Mazrah, even though the bigger map, is more optimized than Vondel

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLIvEOevhvQ&ab\_channel=SoldatX](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLIvEOevhvQ&ab_channel=SoldatX)

Here is a video in Vondel but without any sharpening or DLSS. Notice how the fps is significantly less than in Al Mazrah, which, again, doesn’t make a lot of sense. Vondel has less players and is a smaller map, how is it not performing better than Al Maz?

TL;DR: WZ2 is much worse than I thought. The game is so poorly optimized that resolution and map dimensions aren’t at all direct factors to PC performance.