Overwatch Best Settings ( Serious )

Overwatch Best Settings
for both competetive and casual players

Tip : Please click on the images if you have difficulty reading what's written properly

Display Settings

Key Display Settings to keep in mind :

Display Mode : Fullscreen (for least amount of latency)

Resolution : Max sure to pick your highest Refresh rate in the Brackets
if you have a 144hz 1080p monitor it should say 1920x1080 (144)

FOV : Personal preference but best to leave it at 103

Dynamic render scale : Off
Render scale set to custom and at 100

Reduce Buffering ON

Nvidia Reflex :
Enabled

Use Enabled + Boost for best performance but while forcing GPU to constantly run at max clock

Graphic Quality Settings

For Best Visuals + Performance

Use High Quality Upscaling for FPS BOOST but GRAINY VISUALS at times

Texture Quality High if more than 4gb VRAM

Texture Filtering 8x or 16x
+ It makes Textures Further away crisper in quality

Fog LOW
Dynamic Reflections off

Shadow Details Medium ( Low has Jagged shadows )

Model Quality LOW
+ has no affect on player models
- Adds unneccesary visual clutter and props to maps
- could put you at a disadvantage in rare situations

Effects High-Ultra
+ Completely changes how lighting works ingame
+ overall more visually pleasing
- Adds Visual clutter to some but not a competitive Disadvantage

Lighting Quality

+ Adds Bloom ( radiant lights ) to plenty of things
+ Could give Advantage at medium or higher by seeing enemy glow around the corner|

Anti-Aliasing Medium ( High if your Machine can handle it )
+ Fixes most of the jagged edges
+ Makes the game far more visually appealing than having it turned off

Refraction Low

Ambient Occlusion High
+ Highly improves depth perception on objects by adding shadows to them
+ Better immersion visually
- Has a slight performance hit for some ( Try medium if that is your case)

Location Reflections On

For Best Performance/Competetive settings

Essentially Everything at low


UPSCALING/FSR
> Experiment with FSR 1 and FSR 2.2 to see what you prefer ( FSR 2 for higher FPS BOOST)
+ Can significantly boost fps on some machines
- Upscaling with FSR is known add in 1-5ms of Input latency

Lighting Quality LOW
>Consider Medium if you can

Antialias Quality LOW
> OFF if potato PC
> Medium for far better visual fidelity

Miscellaneous settings

These Settings Are Mostly Personal Preference but in my opinion worth considering

Sound When Teammates get Elimanted

Sound > General
Turn on "Play sound when teammate eliminated"
+ Plays a ping sound when a teammate dies
+ Helps in staying mindful if your teammates are Eliminated
+ Reminder for checking Kill feed and position Better

Better Hit-reg with your Aim (IMPORTANT)

Gameplay > General
at the bottom
Turn on "Enable high precision mouse input"

Less Shakes/Motion Sickness

Acessibility > General
Copy the settings in the image for least amount of screen shakes
+ better Aim/Focus on target

Transparent Waypoint/Objective HUD

Gameplay > HUD
Reduce "Waypoint Opacity" to a lesser number, preferably 50 or under
+ Prevents enemies from sometimes hiding being the waypoint HUD on screen

Critical Subtitles

Accessibility > Subtitles
Copy Settings on screenshot
+ Gives you subtitles whenever an ability is used
+ Sometimes picks up faint sounds as subtitles that you may miss (Competetive Advantage)"

Avoiding Invite / Deal with invite spams

Click on social Icon next to your name in top right and set your profile to offline
+ Good for dealing with annoying friends spamming invites while you're mid game

Auto Join Team Voice chat

Copy settings in the screenshot
+ Always makes you join team voice chat ( if you are not soloqueueing it will put you in a private lobby voice chat by default and you'd have to press P and manually switch to team chat)



Bonus tip : You can goto your career profile by right-clicking on your name top right
+ way less music/sounds incase you're tabbed out while queuing

Biggest Tip for Overwatch

Don't Forget this is just a video game

sometimes you may meet toxic people, sometimes they'd be toxic enough to ruin your mood

Just remember that toxic people are the problem, not you
it's okay if you're having a bad game or a bad day and are unable to perform
at the end of the day what matters is having fun.

a lot of players, especially in lower elo's have this misunderstanding that damage/heal stats are the only representation of value but that simply not true

a Sombra with great positioning and timing is still likely to not out-damage the soldier 76 on her team
but it doesnt take away from the fact that the Sombra is doing well

this analogy can be applied in many ways

Thank You

Thank You For Going through this guide!
have a fun time playing Overwatch !

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[As1asim]

GGS

[Megatron]

max contrast, and on Nvidia Control Panel, max Digital Vibrance, thank me later...

[josephvbarch]

how do i reduce lag my game is like unplayable right now and ive reset my computer over 5 times

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Winton

[Røckët]

Appreciate the guide, shall test out further settings.

As someone who is constantly abused that play's Sombra in QP whether the team or I'm playing well or not, this made me smile, thank you. rrrrrr

'a Sombra with great positioning and timing is still likely to not out-damage the soldier 76 on her team
but it doesnt take away from the fact that the Sombra is doing well'

[slime]

real

[TinyWill]

good shit

[Laughing Bull]

Thank you

[seyerru]

Actually a good guide for newer players. Even taught me what the HQU is and I've played this game since OW1 launch

[J-Mack007]

Appreciate it m8