
Shadows will lower your game’s performance more than a decent chunk of the settings, but the competitive tradeoff isn’t worth it to disable them.Keeping the fog detail at low will make it easier to spot enemies.Increasing the texture filtering quality makes it easier to distinguish players from objects, but you can consider lowering this setting down if you need a little performance boost.Overwatch’s system requirements can be considered as fairly reasonable, allowing you to get away with turning up some of the graphical settings that will give you a competitive advantage.Keeping it display-based will set your frame limit to your monitor’s refresh rate. Limiting your frames will benefit your system since it’ll start using its resource to maintain the performance instead of pushing for higher values.Keeping your system clock on screen can help you manage your time better and may prevent you from queueing that one “last” game. Seeing how many frames you’re getting will allow you to keep an eye on your system’s performance and you’ll also be able to detect any performance problems if they arise.Though V-Sync works wonderfully to prevent tearing, it introduces input lag, which you’ll want none of while playing Overwatch.Keeping it at 103 will grant you more vision on the sides of the screen, allowing you to spot enemies that you wouldn’t be able to see otherwise. Setting your field of view to its maximum value can cause a fisheye effect in most games, but Overwatch isn’t one of them.If you don’t have any trouble maintaining smooth frame rates while playing Overwath, you’ll benefit more from using your monitor’s native resolution and refresh rate.

Resolution: Your monitor’s native resolution with its native refresh rate.Setting your display mode to full screen will let your computer focus on Overwatch only. Windowed options may make alt-tabbing in and out of Overwatch easier, but they’ll put more strain on your computer since it’ll need to render everything running in the background as well.Video settings Image via Blizzard Entertainment
