Frame rate has never been such a high important stat as it is today. I remember the days of playing Ocarina of Time at 24 fps and feeling it was the best experience ever. Now anything below 60 fps feels weird, slow, choppy, cheap. We are truly spoiled by the advance of technology. Anyway, before I continue with my tantrum, higher fps do provide several advantages such as reaction time, which is essential in competitive games. Overwatch 2 is not the exception. Therefore, today we’ll learn how to play Overwatch 2 at 120 fps.
How to Play Overwatch 2 at 120 FPS
So the obvious answer is the better the equipment, the better the performance. However, such a basic answer will get me into trouble, so we’re gonna talk about some requirements and tweaking you can make on the platform you’re playing Overwatch 2 in order to become a 120 fps club member.
I think it’s obvious, but the universal requirement for any platform is a monitor or TV that is able to run at 120 fps (120 Hz). Otherwise, we’re talking about having a Rolls-Royce without having the ability to drive it, or even open the door of the garage. Besides that, if you want to play in 4k resolutions, you’re going to need a 2.1 HDMI or a DisplayPort 1.4 in order to be able to transmit the information to your screen. Having said that, we’re going to take a look at each platform and see what we can do about those 120 fps munchies. Here is how to play Overwatch 2 at 120 fps in the platform of your choice.
Play Overwatch 2 at 120 FPS in PC
| CATEGORY | MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS | RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i3 or AMD Phenom X3 8650 | Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 5 |
| RAM | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 64-bit (latest Service Pack) | Windows 10 64-bit (latest Service Pack) |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 Series or AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD R9 380 |
| Disk Space | 50 GB | 50 GB |
As you can see, here are the minimum and recommended requirements in order to play the game. Obviously, having a current generation GPU would really make the difference, and even further. Even a GPU from the previous generation would do the job, this game isn’t really demanding by the looks of the recommended requirements.
You can also tweak the following settings in order to achieve 120 fps on PC:
Video settings
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: Native resolution of your PC.
- Field of View: 100 FOV and tweak to find the sweet spot
- V-Sync: Off
- Triple buffering: Off
- Reduce buffering: On
- Display Performance Stats: On
- NVIDIA Reflex: On
- Display System Clock: On
- Limit FPS: 120 FPS
- Graphics Quality: Low
- Gamma Correction: 2
- Contrast: Default
- Brightness: Standard
Advanced Graphics settings
- Texture quality: Medium
- Texture filtering quality: 8x
- Local fog detail: Medium
- Dynamic reflections: Low or Off
- Shadow detail: High
- Model detail: Low
- Effects detail: High
- Lighting quality: High
- Antialias quality: Low – FXAA
- Refraction quality: High
- Screenshot quality: 1x resolution
- Ambient occlusion: Off
- Local reflections: On
- Damage FX: Default
Gameplay settings
- Kill feed display: On
- Play sound when enemy eliminated: Off
- Play sound when teammate eliminated: Off
- Always skip kill cam: Off
- Snap Death Camera to Killer: Off
- Waypoint Opacity: 100%
- Respawn Icon Opacity: 100%
- Ability Timer Ring Opacity: 100%
- Player outline strength: 100%
- Achievement display: UI
These are some recommendations, remember you can always change certain settings that will fit your hardware capabilities. This was the harder part, now onto consoles.
Play Overwatch 2 at 120 FPS in PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S
- Click on Settings while in the Main Menu.
- Click on Video and on Preferred Mode, select FRAMERATE.
- On PS5, go to the System Settings and click on Screen and Video, make sure the 120 Hz Output option is set to Automatic.
- On Xbox Series X/S, go to Profile & System, then Settings > General > TV & Display options. Select 120 Hz as the refresh rate.
That’s pretty much it. Whether you’re a console chad or a PC master racer, now that you know how to play Overwatch 2 at 120 fps, the differences will be non-existent (I hope). Just don’t try anything crazy and no, sharing your account details will not solve the issue.
Overwatch 2 is now available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Windows. If you like our Overwatch 2 content, be sure to check out the Best Ashe Crosshair in Overwatch 2 and How to Disturb the Guest in the Tavern in Overwatch 2’s Halloween Event.
