Finding the best Black Ops 7 settings for your gaming PC is thankfully an easy job. When it comes to graphics, there's a useful auto-detect system to get you up and running, and the game is generally well-optimized. However, there are plenty of details to look out for, which we've outlined below. Meanwhile, if you're looking for the best mouse and controller settings, we've also tested these, and you'll find our preferred choices below.
The Black Ops 7 system requirements don't demand the very latest best graphics card options, meaning you can play the latest Call of Duty game on fairly old hardware. That being said, there's still an element of optimization needed to get the best out of Black Ops 7, and that's where our testing can help.
Best Black Ops 7 settings for PC
Display
- Display mode: Fullscreen borderless
- Screen refresh: Auto
- Display resolution: Auto or your preferred resolution (needs fullscreen exclusive display mode)
- Aspect ratio: Auto
- Display gamma: 2.2
- Gamma/brightness: 50 or adjust to preference
- Nvidia Reflex low latency: On
- Eco Mode preset: Efficiency
- V-Sync gameplay: Off
- V-Sync menus: 100%
- Custom frame rate limit: Unlimited or you can limit the menu rate to save power
- Reduce menu render resolution: Optimal
- Pause game rendering: Off
- Reduce quality when inactive: 10 mins or your preference
- Focus mode: 0
- High dynamic range: Automatic for single-player, off for multi-player
Quality
- Dynamic resolution: Off
- Upscaling: Nvidia DLAA for single-player, off for multi-player
- Nvidia DLSS frame generation: Off
- AMD FSR 3 frame generation: Off
- Ray tracing reflections: Off
- VRAM scale target: 70
- Texture Resolution: High
- Texture Filter Anisotropic: High
- Depth of Field: On for single-player, off for multi-player
- Detail Quality: High
- Particle Resolution: High
- Bullet Impacts: On
- Persistent Effects: On
- Shader Quality: High
- On-Demand Texture Streaming: Optimized
- Local texture streaming quality: Default
- In-game video quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: High
- Screen Space Shadows: High
- Occlusion and Screen Space Lighting: High
- Screen Space Reflections: High
- Static Reflection Quality: High
- Terrain Quality: Very High
- Volumetric Quality: Medium
- Deferred Physics Quality: High
- Weather Grid Volumes Quality: Ultra
- Water Quality: All
View
- Field of View: 90
- ADS Field of View: Affected
- Weapon field of view: Default
- 3rd person field of view: 90
- Vehicle field of view: Default
- World Motion Blur: Off
- Weapon Motion Blur: On for single-player, off for multi-player
Using the above settings on our Nvidia RTX 4070 test rig (full PC specs under the How We Test section), we achieved an average frame rate of 121fps with 1% lows of 75fps at 1,920 x 1,080. Moving up to a resolution of 2,560 x 1,440, the average frame rate was 101fps with 1% lows of 67fps. Finally, at 4K, the average frame rate was 81fps with 1% lows of 53fps.
Black Ops 7 runs great on our test rig, and given that the general Call of Duty system requirements haven't shifted much over the last few installments, many older and budget gaming PCs built in the last four years should handle the game's demands just fine.
Black Ops 7 controller settings
- Button layout: Default
- Stick layout preset: Default
- Horizontal stick sensitivity: 1.2
- Vertical stick sensitivity:1.2
- Controller vibration: On for single-player, off for multi-player
- Sensitivity multiplier: 1
- Target aim assist: On
- Motion sensor function behavior: Off
Black Ops 7 mouse settings
- Mouse sensitivity: 3 (for a mouse at 1200dpi)
- ADS sensitivity multiplier: 1
- Look inversion: Standard
- Simplified controls preset: Off
- Low motor strain preset: Off
- Custom sensitivity per zoom: Off or your preference
- ADS sensitivity timing: Instant
- ADS sensitivity type: Relative
- 3rd person ADS coefficient: 1.33
- Use system mouse cursor: Off
- Constrain mouse to game window: Off
Black Ops 7 graphics presets
There are five total graphics presets in Black Ops 7, and thanks to the VRAM calculator, we know how much each one requires.
- Minimum - 3.39GB
- Basic - 3.39GB
- Balanced - 3.72GB
- Ultra - 4.47GB
- Extreme - 5.97GB
While not technically a preset, there is also a "recommended" graphics setting, which takes your system hardware into account and automatically creates a full graphics profile for you to use.
I sometimes find these automatic systems set the graphics options too high, but with Black Ops 7, the settings were quite close to what I eventually settled on. The main differences between my settings and those set by the automatic system were that I reduced the DLSS setting to DLAA, while lowering the shadow and lighting quality from Ultra to High.
How we tested Black Ops 7
At PCGamesN, we use dedicated gaming rigs to test the best settings for performance and gameplay in the latest releases. The test rig used to play Black Ops 7 includes the following components: Intel Core i7-11700F, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 12GB, 32GB of DDR4 3,200MHz RAM in dual-channel configuration, and an MSI B560 motherboard. We also test using Windows 11 64-bit.
We always run our testing first at 1,920 x 1,080 to identify the best settings for this entry-level resolution, then again at 2,560 x 1,440 using the same setup to gauge the difference in performance. Finally, we also test at 4K. We use CapFrameX to capture frame data and compare testing sessions.
Does Black Ops 7 need an SSD?
Black Ops 7 requires an SSD, regardless of whether you're aiming for the minimum or recommended system requirements. If you're still struggling with a mechanical hard drive, or your drive could do with an upgrade, check out our guide to buying the best gaming SSD, so you can get the best balance of performance and capacity for your needs.
How to monitor performance in Black Ops 7
If you want to keep an eye on performance in Black Ops 7, we have an easy method that works whether you're using an Nvidia or AMD graphics card.
For Nvidia cards, ensure you have the Nvidia App installed and the in-game overlay enabled, and then hit ALT + R in-game to bring up your performance monitor. With AMD cards, you can enable performance monitoring via the Radeon overlay using the shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + O.
Alternatively, you can download free software such as CapFrameX or Nvidia FrameView, to get a cleaner, more simplified benchmarking tool that works with any graphics card.
Meanwhile, most gaming handhelds will have a dedicated button to access a quick menu from which performance monitoring, sometimes called real-time monitoring, can be accessed.