Are my specs enough to run 140-170 FPS?

[aira]

Hello! I am familiar with how badly the game is optimised, I have searched all over Reddit and YouTube for various tweaks and commands, none of which really helped me. I can get a slight boost here and there, but nothing is enough for a playable experience.

I want to list my specs and ask if this is generally okay to run CS2 at an adequate FPS, or could there be something wrong with my machine?

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core 3.00 GHz
32 GB RAM
NVIDIA RTX 2070
m2 ssd

I run the game in 1920x1440 stretched, however there is no noticeable impact on running it on 2560x1440 (native). My monitor is 170hz.

As stated in the title, I wish to reach my monitors refresh rate, but in CS2 it seems impossible. My FPS generally sits at 90, with some drops to 60 sometimes, and rarely going up to 150-180 in simple scenes. This is playable, but obviously not ideal, especially when it drops to like 70, when every other game runs at my monitors refresh rate just fine, some much better looking than CS2.

Thank you everyone for your replies!

[Mr. Nice Guy]

You’ll likely have to turn down some graphics settings. I run 12 core i7, 3060, nvme and I get about 160fps at 1080p (all max graphic settings).

[aira]

Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy:

You’ll likely have to turn down some graphics settings. I run 12 core i7, 3060, nvme and I get about 160fps at 1080p (all max graphic settings).

I have everything as low as possible :/ Except for shadows and some other settings, which I've learned you need to have to not be at a competitive disadvantage. Reflex also doesn't seem to affect my FPS at all

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Tbh, that seems a little low, maybe something with the amd cpu? I know this game is far from optimized.
Might have to update cpu. I had to reduce my monitor refresh rate to 120 because some maps I would dip beneath 144 at time at I would get tearing and stuttering.

[aira]

Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy:

Tbh, that seems a little low, maybe something with the amd cpu? I know this game is far from optimized.
Might have to update cpu. I had to reduce my monitor refresh rate to 120 because some maps I would dip beneath 144 at time at I would get tearing and stuttering.

Yeah :/ As far I've researched, it only uses one core properly, so AMD cpus are at a disadvantage generally

[Haze]

Interesting seeing your fps with these specs as ive seen gtx 1070 hit 200 in 1080p competetive settings....

[Sora]

Originally posted by Aira:

Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy:

Tbh, that seems a little low, maybe something with the amd cpu? I know this game is far from optimized.
Might have to update cpu. I had to reduce my monitor refresh rate to 120 because some maps I would dip beneath 144 at time at I would get tearing and stuttering.

Yeah :/ As far I've researched, it only uses one core properly, so AMD cpus are at a disadvantage generally

Your CPU is a major bottleneck here. Playing around the settings won't probably have a major impact.

[Haze]

Originally posted by Sora:

Originally posted by Aira:

Yeah :/ As far I've researched, it only uses one core properly, so AMD cpus are at a disadvantage generally

Your CPU is a major bottleneck here. Playing around the settings won't probably have a major impact.

Yup, his single core score is the same as a i5 4670k... and i don't need to tell u when that cpu got released...
(June first 2013....)

[ٴ]

Originally posted by Aira:

Hello! I am familiar with how badly the game is optimised, I have searched all over Reddit and YouTube for various tweaks and commands, none of which really helped me. I can get a slight boost here and there, but nothing is enough for a playable experience.

I want to list my specs and ask if this is generally okay to run CS2 at an adequate FPS, or could there be something wrong with my machine?

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core 3.00 GHz
32 GB RAM
NVIDIA RTX 2070
m2 ssd

I run the game in 1920x1440 stretched, however there is no noticeable impact on running it on 2560x1440 (native). My monitor is 170hz.

As stated in the title, I wish to reach my monitors refresh rate, but in CS2 it seems impossible. My FPS generally sits at 90, with some drops to 60 sometimes, and rarely going up to 150-180 in simple scenes. This is playable, but obviously not ideal, especially when it drops to like 70, when every other game runs at my monitors refresh rate just fine, some much better looking than CS2.

Thank you everyone for your replies!

You need to upgrade your CPU, I'm at 140 fps with a GTX 1060, also I turned ambient occlusion off, boost contrast off, texture filter bilinear and models to low. Idk but for me it helped. Sometimes those advantages are good but if your pc is not getting enough fps for the HZ you have it's worse than those advantages. That's my opinion tho.

[Haze]

Maybe try to update your Bios to the latest version and pop in a 5800x3d? Your gains should be massive, atleast twice the fps no cap.

[Švedski Šved iz Švedske]

Originally posted by Haze:

Originally posted by Sora:

Your CPU is a major bottleneck here. Playing around the settings won't probably have a major impact.

Yup, his single core score is the same as a i5 4670k... and i don't need to tell u when that cpu got released...
(June first 2013....)

It's funny you mention this, when CS2 is the literal same game, downgraded, with worse performance across the bar with the same gamemodes (10 people on the map), with the same, static small maps. Yet performance is halved LOL.

Try Valorant. Game runs like a dream on modest hardware. Few of my friends own 1050's and Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPU's, similar (and more demanding) eSport titles still run just fine, when CS2, even if you get 200+FPS, still have 1% low's and 0.1% lows of literal 20FPS. It's a travesty.

[Sora]

Originally posted by Švedski Šved iz Švedske:

Originally posted by Haze:

Yup, his single core score is the same as a i5 4670k... and i don't need to tell u when that cpu got released...
(June first 2013....)

It's funny you mention this, when CS2 is the literal same game, downgraded, with worse performance across the bar with the same gamemodes (10 people on the map), with the same, static small maps. Yet performance is halved LOL.

Try Valorant. Game runs like a dream on modest hardware. Few of my friends own 1050's and Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPU's, similar (and more demanding) eSport titles still run just fine, when CS2, even if you get 200+FPS, still have 1% low's and 0.1% lows of literal 20FPS. It's a travesty.

Valorant looks like trash next to CS2. The game became more GPU intensive with the updates and they can't make the game look like the first doom for 20 years because some people want to play it on their core 2 duo with a gtx 460.

I won't deny that it might run badly for some people on recent hardware since everyone plays on different specs but the fact is that most people cry around with hardware that is decades old and do not even receive driver updates any longer.

[b0b]

Type "-threads 17" into your CS2 launch options. It basically utilizes all your available CPU cores and you should get more FPS.

Originally posted by Aira:

Hello! I am familiar with how badly the game is optimised, I have searched all over Reddit and YouTube for various tweaks and commands, none of which really helped me. I can get a slight boost here and there, but nothing is enough for a playable experience.

I want to list my specs and ask if this is generally okay to run CS2 at an adequate FPS, or could there be something wrong with my machine?

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core 3.00 GHz
32 GB RAM
NVIDIA RTX 2070
m2 ssd

I run the game in 1920x1440 stretched, however there is no noticeable impact on running it on 2560x1440 (native). My monitor is 170hz.

As stated in the title, I wish to reach my monitors refresh rate, but in CS2 it seems impossible. My FPS generally sits at 90, with some drops to 60 sometimes, and rarely going up to 150-180 in simple scenes. This is playable, but obviously not ideal, especially when it drops to like 70, when every other game runs at my monitors refresh rate just fine, some much better looking than CS2.

Thank you everyone for your replies!

[swaghunter | feminist (6'2)]

Originally posted by b0b =):

Type "-threads 17" into your CS2 launch options :smile:

Originally posted by Aira:

Hello! I am familiar with how badly the game is optimised, I have searched all over Reddit and YouTube for various tweaks and commands, none of which really helped me. I can get a slight boost here and there, but nothing is enough for a playable experience.

I want to list my specs and ask if this is generally okay to run CS2 at an adequate FPS, or could there be something wrong with my machine?

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core 3.00 GHz
32 GB RAM
NVIDIA RTX 2070
m2 ssd

I run the game in 1920x1440 stretched, however there is no noticeable impact on running it on 2560x1440 (native). My monitor is 170hz.

As stated in the title, I wish to reach my monitors refresh rate, but in CS2 it seems impossible. My FPS generally sits at 90, with some drops to 60 sometimes, and rarely going up to 150-180 in simple scenes. This is playable, but obviously not ideal, especially when it drops to like 70, when every other game runs at my monitors refresh rate just fine, some much better looking than CS2.

Thank you everyone for your replies!

cs2 mostly relies on single core performance, that will give you marginal benefits or fix stutters

[b0b]

Nuh uh, CS2 highly depends on the GPU these days. For example, if you have a GTX 1060 and a high refresh rate monitor, CS2 feels choppy. This was not the case in CS:GO, because that game required on a high single core CPU clock and not a good GPU like CS2.

Originally posted by swaghunter:

Originally posted by b0b =):

Type "-threads 17" into your CS2 launch options

cs2 mostly relies on single core performance, that will give you marginal benefits or fix stutters

[swaghunter | feminist (6'2)]

Originally posted by b0b =):

Nuh uh, CS2 highly depends on the GPU these days. For example, if you have a GTX 1060 and a high refresh rate monitor, CS2 feels choppy. This was not the case in CS:GO, because that game required on a high single core CPU clock and not a good GPU like CS2.

Originally posted by swaghunter:

cs2 mostly relies on single core performance, that will give you marginal benefits or fix stutters

it's still more cpu than gpu dependent, if your cpu cant work fast enough to max out your gpu it wont use your gpu a lot. threads don't necessarily make it faster, it only spreads the load. source: 3600x + 6700xt user and the frames speak for themselves (especially when comparing with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane single core speeds of intel cpus)