
Testing Methodology - Our New Test System These drivers are AMD's Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 20.11.1 driver as well as Nvidia's Geforce 456.71 driver.

When testing Black Ops: Cold War, we opted to use the newest drivers from both the Radeon and Geforce camps. Graphics Options & System Requirements - Graphical Settings Comparisons - Do you need Ultra High settings? - CPU Performance - Core Scaling - Do next-gen games need insane CPUs? - Ray Tracing On VS Off - Next-Gen Visuals? - DLSS - Image Quality and Performance Impact - Graphical Preset Scaling Is Ultra much more demanding than High? - Ray Tracing Performance - Is it worth it? - 1080p Performance - 1440p Performance - 4K Performance - Conclusion Trying to open the mode within Black Ops: Cold War will close the game and boot up Modern Warfare on Blizzard's client.

Please note that Call of Duty: Warzone remains a part of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Within this analysis, we will be looking at how Black Ops Cold War's performance scales on PC, how features like DLSS and DXR ray-traced shadows impact performance and graphics fidelity and what settings PC gamers should alter to run Cold War at higher framerates on their setup. On PC, Black Ops: Cold War pushes the game's visuals further and implements support for Geforce-specific features like Nvidia's Reflex latency reduction technology and DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) support on RTX series graphics cards.

As such, Treyarch has delved even deeper into the next-generation feature set, offering more extensive DXR support and an optional 120Hz mode on supported console platforms. With Black Ops: Cold War, the Call of Duty series is at a crossroads, supporting both current generation and next-generation hardware platforms. The engine which powered the franchise was dramatically overhauled, and the game was updated to leverage DirectX 12 DXR ray tracing on PC for the first time. With the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in 2019, the franchise was placed firmly on the road to next-generation platforms.
