Is the game suddenly unplayable for anyone else?

[nymersic]

Haven't played in a week, must've been one of these updates,
but the game now acts like I'm lagging out HARD.

I only see people teleport 5 feet at a time, grenades will blink through the air 10 feet at a time, etc. I still seem to be shooting fine if I'm guessing where people are...

Haven't had any issues like this since CSGO came out, really.

I'm keeping the same 30 ping, CS2 is using a ridiculous amount of memory as always but still less than half what I have, graphics settings aren't changing anything, every other game works fine...
just started when I logged on an hour ago. Other people are talking about "instability" but no one else seems to have my problems. .__.

[MAXE]

Suddenly ?

Naaah it has been like this for years for me

[nymersic]

Talking about the crap quality of updates, I go to settings, there's a section "New" with "Telemetry" under it,
and the first word under "Telemetry" is misspelled. Nice job, Volvo.

[lammas]

Yes! It started couple of days ago. The game works for couple of rounds and then starts lagging so badly it's unplayable. I join a new game and it works for a while. Practice works fine.

[Sethioz]

that's internet issues 100%
ugh .. i'm so fed up with people not knowing how to analyze their internet and they instantly blame it on game.

what steps have you taken to test your internet? do you even know how to run ping command in cmd to check ping to servers? have you left it open on secondary monitor while playing and checked if your ping is stable or not?

yeah .. didn't think so ..
i'm not saying cs2 is bug free, i've had my share of crashes and weird bugs, but what you describe is 100% network lag caused by your internet.

most people think that they have good stable internet if they're able to watch netflix .. but that's like saying road is ok if you can drive on it with a tank, but car starts bouncing or gets stuck.

netflix and any other online services for movies or music uses BUFFER, which eliminates stuttering. it preloads chunks of data, so if your internet is unstable and even disconnects for 1-2 minutes, then your movie/music keeps playing as it's already preloaded into buffer.

games can't have a buffer, because you need to see it all happen live. that's why you can't measure how good your internet is, based on watching a movie and saying "but it doesn't cut off". this means nothing.

also lot of people instantly list "i have 1 gbit internet" .. so what? do you even know what it means?
bandwidth and latency are NOT same things.

bandwidth = how much data can pass thru your connection at SAME TIME
ping/latency = how fast a single tiny packet can reach from A to B and back to A, that's PING. the longer the distance, the higher the ping. you can have 10000 trillion gbit omg best internet fafafafaf trillion 10000 gigabytes internet and still LAG due instability or distance from server.

same goes for when using wifi, there can be interference, so you can easily watch online videos, but in a game every tiny bit of interference will result in lag spikes.

FIRST STEP is to analyze your internet, easiest way is running ping command to like youtube or google or directly to the server you are connected to. add /t arguement to keep it running. leave it open on secondary monitor, when you lag in-game, check the ping command. if it's stable all the time (mine is usually 19-20ms to google), then you can say its game's fault, but if you see any time-outs or 100+ms, then it's quite obvious its your internet.

[nymersic]

Originally posted by Sethioz:

that's internet issues 100%
ugh

fair enough
tho you taught me literally nothing

even though fwiw, you were right about one tiny thing -- turns out in the last day my wireless card crapped the bed;
every 10 seconds or so I'd get one second where 100% of packets outgoing and incoming would be lost, and that screws with the other 9 seconds with CSGO apparently;
swap out the wireless card from another machine and we're good to go.

Yeah, I know how to use command prompt thx, helped troubleshoot people with pings and tracerts and whatnot for 30 years

anyway "thanks" for a reply; I despise your attitude and i'm blocking you ^_^

we can close this discussion, turns out it really was just me

[Sir McCensored]

Me and my friends played 3 matches yesterday. First match was without lag, and the last 2 ALL of us had packet loss and severe lag (separate networks). Sometime it was better but more often it was basically unplayable. Ping was stable.


Needless so say it didn't give a good impression for some of my friends who just started playing the game for the first time.

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[nymersic]

Originally posted by lammas:

Yes! It started couple of days ago. The game works for couple of rounds and then starts lagging so badly it's unplayable. I join a new game and it works for a while. Practice works fine.

Oof. Hope your problem didn't turn out to be the same as mine. Really thought it was w/e that change was a week ago, something about buffering packets during lag. Figured that was a screwy setting but it turned out it was my wireless card from an old machine, one of them fancy-ass hax0ring cards that had started to wear out. Oh well, I woulda gotten that one in 2008. Shouldn't be surprising.

Hopefully your fix is as cheap or cheaper. <3

[Eppu]

Yeah we need de_lake.

[Perfect.exe]

Server issues. 300 ms ping spikes. No doubt.

[Schizoid]

I have the same problem with fps drops after update for major the game is unplayable I send a bug report to valve but they taking their time with major at the moment so they not gona fix it any time soon probably after major.

[ESSJ408]

not a internet issue. its the new updates they have been coming out with. march 20 update was fine. this march 22 update is choppy. fps drops, unplayable.

[nymersic]

[already figured out it WAS essentially an internet issue, at least for me. hardware issue.]

[lammas]

I don't know what was my issue. Got mad and hit delete on csgo folder and downloaded the game again. Now it's been working for an hour. Maybe just a coincide. Local servers aren't too busy right now.

[soyo]

same