{"id":375652,"date":"2026-08-22T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=375652"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:28:16","slug":"call-of-duty-pc-beta-gets-updated-mouse-and-shader-fixes-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/call-of-duty-pc-beta-gets-updated-mouse-and-shader-fixes-arrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty PC beta gets updated: mouse and shader fixes arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Activision says today\u2019s update for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/call-of-duty-mobile-for-pc.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty<\/a> PC beta focuses on <strong>broader PC settings<\/strong>, better mouse input, and shader pre-loading that now happens in the background.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That mouse work comes after the usual round of complaints from keyboard-and-mouse players, who keep saying aim still feels <strong>off<\/strong>, floaty, or muddy, sometimes with input delay or an inconsistent aim-down-sights response. Creators and tech analysts have been saying much the same thing, arguing it still doesn\u2019t feel as sharp as <a href=\"https:\/\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2019.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)<\/a> or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Performance is the other obvious trouble spot. <strong>Low frame rates<\/strong>, stuttering, hitching, and uneven results across different hardware are still coming up regularly.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The background shader pre-load could end up being one of the more helpful PC fixes, since it should <strong>cut down<\/strong> those long shader-compiling waits and smooth out the shaky first part of a session, even if the broader beta reaction is still mixed on audio, spawns, attachments, footstep audio, map voting, weapon balance, bug fixes, and possibly skill-based matchmaking.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you play Call of Duty on PC, this patch is probably worth grabbing for the shader and mouse changes alone, even though the beta doesn\u2019t seem to have the same <strong>momentum<\/strong> on streaming and social platforms as earlier entries, and Activision still hasn\u2019t officially confirmed any title called Modern Warfare 4.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can get the current beta build on PC through the usual Call of Duty beta channels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision says today\u2019s update for the latest Call of Duty PC beta focuses on broader PC settings, better mouse input, and shader pre-loading that now happens in the background. That mouse work comes after the usual round of complaints from keyboard-and-mouse players, who keep saying aim still feels off, floaty, or muddy, sometimes with input &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/call-of-duty-pc-beta-gets-updated-mouse-and-shader-fixes-arrive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Call of Duty PC beta gets updated: mouse and shader fixes arrive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":375651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-375652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375653,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375652\/revisions\/375653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375652"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375652"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375652"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}