Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter that serves as a reboot of the Modern Warfare sub-series. The game features a single-player campaign, cooperative Special Ops missions, and a multiplayer suite with cross-platform play. The campaign emphasizes tactical realism, with morally complex scenarios, civilian threat assessments, and night-vision operations. Multiplayer introduces a revised gunplay system with extensive weapon customization, a Realism mode that removes the HUD, a Ground War mode supporting over 100 players, and a 2v2 Gunfight mode. Post-launch, the game received the free-to-play battle royale mode Warzone. The traditional season pass was replaced with free content updates delivered through seasonal battle passes.

Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.

Official system requirements

These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Activision on Steam. They tend to be conservative, usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.

Verified 23 August 2026 against the Steam store page.

Can your PC run Call of Duty: Modern Warfare?

If your CPU is roughly equivalent to Intel® Core™ i5-2500K and your GPU is at or above NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660, you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, look at the tier picks above.

Best gaming PC for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare →