Every game you play has the potential to detect the best settings for your hardware when you launch them. Chances are you'll get the best visuals that make your performance look bad.
Console players of Overwatch 2 are limited in their settings compared to PC players. PC users can adjust almost any setting at will to tailor the game to their needs. Console players don't have to worry as there are some settings you can tinker with. You can still make adjustments to sensitivity and other configurations. Optimizing your setup will help you beat your opponents on a more regular basis.
Professional players and their setups are often the best guides. They usually take the time to hone their skills and make sure each button doesn't interfere with each other to ensure they get the best gaming experience.
Once you have these settings set up, you can mix them up however you want. These are your settings and you can improve them with minimal changes.
Here are the best settings for Overwatch 2 on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch.
Mouse/Control Settings
If you like fast-paced, up-close action, you'll want faster sensitivity. Tracer and Reaper require precise but fast catapults to land. You need to improve your judgment to make a difference among these heroes.
If you switch from low sensitivity to high sensitivity, it may feel difficult to adjust at first. However, as you practice, you should start to feel more comfortable.
Regardless of your sensitivity setting, you should always set your mouse's polling rate to its highest available value. Most gaming mice are capped at 1000Hz, which means you only get a 1 millisecond response time.
DPI: 800
Sensitivity:5-7.75
eDPI: 4000-6200
Zoom sensitivity:30-40
Polling rate: 1000Hz
Joint health bar: always
Presentation-friendly outline: always
Video settings
Display mode: full screen
Window options might make it easier to alt-tab in and out of Overwatch 2, but they'll put more stress on your computer as it needs to render everything running in the background. Setting your display mode to full screen will cause your computer to focus solely on Overwatch 2.
Target Display: Best Match
Resolution: The display’s native resolution and its native refresh rate
If you don't have issues maintaining a smooth frame rate when playing Overwatch 2, you'll benefit more from your monitor's native resolution and refresh rate.
Field of View:103
In most games, setting your field of view to the maximum will result in the fisheye effect, but Overwatch 2 isn't one of them. Keeping it at 103 will give you more vision on both sides of the screen, allowing you to spot enemies you wouldn't otherwise be able to see.
Aspect Ratio: Native Aspect Ratio
V-Sync:
While V-Sync works well at preventing tearing, it introduces input lag, which you don't want to see when playing Overwatch 2.
Triple buffering: off
Reduce Buffering: Enable
Show performance statistics: On
Seeing how many frames you're getting allows you to keep a close eye on your system's performance, allowing you to detect if any performance issues arise.
NVIDIA Reflection: On
NVIDIA Reflex helps reduce overall latency when playing Overwatch 2.
Show system clock: On
Time flies when playing Overwatch 2. Having the system clock displayed on the screen can help you manage your time better and prevent you from queuing up your "last" game.
Limit FPS: based on display
Limiting your frames will benefit your system as it will start using its resources to maintain performance rather than pushing to higher values. Keeping it display based will set your frame limit to your monitor's refresh rate.
Graphics Quality: Custom
Rendering scale: 100%
Texture: Medium
Texture filtering quality: Medium - 2x
Increasing the texture filtering quality can make it easier to differentiate between players and objects, but if you need a little performance boost, you might consider lowering this setting.
Partial Fog Detail: Low
Keeping fog detail low will make it easier to spot enemies.
Dynamic Reflection:Off
Shadow Detail: Medium
Shadows will slow down game performance more than a large number of settings, but in some cases it can help players differentiate between enemies and shadows. Setting shadows to medium will be a solid middle ground, allowing you to retain the ability to spot enemies through shadows.
Model details:Low
Effect Detail:Low
Setting effect detail to low will help you better distinguish each skill while preventing any performance degradation in large team battles.
Lightning Quality: Low
Setting model and effect details to low lightning quality will give a nice performance boost. You won't be able to tell the difference when you start fighting, and keeping these on the lower end of the spectrum will help you spot enemies faster, especially from a distance.
Anti-aliasing quality: Off
Refractive quality: low
Refraction quality is one of the settings you'll feel is missing when you lower it. While Overwatch 2 will look less shiny, you'll be putting a lighter load on your hardware since it's also a more demanding graphics setup out there.
Screenshot quality: 1x resolution
Partial reflection: off
Ambient Occlusion:Off
Gamma correction: less than 50%
Comparison: less than 50%
Brightness: less than 50%
Depending on the brightness of your monitor, Overwatch 2 may appear too bright when you first launch it. Lowering these three settings can help you find a better balance.
Horizontal sensitivity: 45
Vertical sensitivity: 45
Target Assist Power:95
If you play aim-assisted shooters all the time, you're going to want to set the intensity of the aim-assist higher. Make sure to try different values as this setting is very subjective for controller players.
Target auxiliary window size: 70
Target Assist Legacy Mode: Off
Target Assisted Relaxation: 20
Target Smoothing: 0
Target Moderation: 20
The higher your aim ease value, the less you will feel the effects of aim assist. Considering that you need to feel the aim assist working to reach its true potential, keeping the value lower, like 10 to 20 would be ideal.
Inverted vertical appearance: off
Horizontal inverted appearance: off
Vibration: up
Controller vibration is a great way to enhance gameplay moments, but it can be annoying when you're in ranked play. A random shake can cause you to miss a key shot, which means keeping it accurate is the way to go.
Toggle movement and rod sight: off
Legacy Sticks:Off
Aiming Technique: Linear Ramp
Gyro settings:
Inversion gyro aiming pitch axis: Off
Invert gyro aiming yaw axis: off
Reversed Gyro Aiming Roller: Off
Gyro aiming pitch axis sensitivity: 8
Gyro aiming yaw axis sensitivity: zero
Gyro aiming roller sensitivity: 12
Use stick when disabling gyro: On
By choosing the number of heroes, you probably won't need to change too much. Some characters require extreme precision, like Ash or Anna. There are also heroes that can have fast agility, like Messi or Reinhardt.
Lowering your sensitivity settings on heroes like Widowmaker can help you improve your accuracy when you need it most.
As you adjust your hero's sensitivity settings, don't forget to choose a crosshair that suits your style. Most players usually prefer bright colors like green and purple so that they don't get lost in team battles.
Try and maybe test your setup in a quick game rather than competing.