Best Warzone settings for Arc A380
Recommended at 1080p: expect 34–60 FPS after applying the playbook below. Your Arc A380 is the limiting factor in Warzone.
At 1080p, Warzone's rendering pipeline saturates a E-tier Intel GPU before any CPU draw-call limit. Settings that reduce GPU load (shader quality, shadow detail, particle resolution, upscaling) produce the biggest FPS gains. Settings that ease CPU work (view distance, draw distance) help less.
Apply these settings in Warzone
Ranked by FPS impact for tier E hardware. Apply the high-impact ones first — top three usually account for 60% of the gain.
Single biggest FPS gain in IW 9.0 — shadow maps eat GPU memory and pass time. Drops 12–18 FPS off ultra to low without changing combat readability.
Your 6GB VRAM can't hold High textures at 1080p — stuttering is the symptom. Low keeps everything streamed in.
Volumetrics (smoke, light shafts) are GPU-expensive and add no competitive info. ~7 FPS gain, no visibility cost.
Heavy on a E-tier GPU during firefights when the screen is full of effects. Low keeps frametimes stable in combat.
Intel XeSS at Quality preset gives roughly +30% FPS for a small image-quality hit. At 1080p, the upscale base is high enough that artifacts are minimal.
Free FPS, plus better tracking for moving targets. Always off in competitive setups.
Adds input lag, no benefit for an FPS title. Use a custom FPS cap (refresh × 0.97) instead if you need to control frame timing.
Intel-specific tweaks
These are in Intel Arc Control.
Intel-native upscaler with the best image quality on Arc cards. Equivalent to DLSS Quality preset.
Set per-game profiles in Arc Control with maximum performance. Arc relies more on driver-side tuning than NVIDIA/AMD.
About the Arc A380
The Arc A380 (2022 release, 6GB VRAM) is a legacy card. At 1080p in Warzone, the biggest FPS levers are upscaling, shadow detail, and brand-specific latency reducers (Intel XeSS). The settings above are the floor — for a fully personalized playbook factoring CPU, RAM, and your monitor refresh rate, run BetterFPS.
Arc A380 is showing its age in modern Warzone. An RTX 4060 / RX 7600 would unlock 80–120 FPS at 1080p without sacrificing visual quality. If budget allows, a 12–16GB-VRAM upgrade is the single biggest playable-FPS lever for legacy hardware.