It’s always nice to say that a big, look-how-much-we-spent-on-pore-rendering AAA game actually runs quite well on PC, as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 does. Unfortunately for Bl6ps, and for us, that technical success is balanced on the knife tip of some seriously overwrought infrastructure. Mainly in the form the UX nightmare that is the Call of Duty HQ launcher, as well as a meddlesome always-online requirement , itself serving a feature that doesn’t even work that well.
If you can elbow your way past those, than Black Ops 6 will at least make nice with premium rigs and dusty old desktops alike. I’ve put together a settings guide below, but you’re unlikely to end up begging for framerate scraps even on relatively weak graphics cards, especially if you take advantage of its DLSS and FSR upscaling support. The only modern hardware it’ll have trouble with is the Steam Deck , and that’s primarily because the Richochet anti-cheat and the Deck’s SteamOS aren’t on speaking terms.
Since, however, this is the first COD to have the Game Pass treatment at launch, Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can stream it to the Steam Deck via Xbox Cloud Gaming. It’s available on Nvidia GeForce Now too, if you want to stream the PC version specifically. Here, though, we’ll focus on native Windows running: first, how Black Ops 6 performs on different GPUs, and second, how you can get the most out of its many, many graphics options.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 system requirements and PC p.