Significant FPS drops recently

[caaj]

I honestly don't know what to do at this point. Yes, CS2 has extremely bad performance and feels like 100hz even though you're playing on much higher but my frames were at least okay before and I didn't really drop below ~250, which is important since I have a 240hz monitor.

I was playing a lot last winter and I managed to get CS2 running decent. Now I started playing again and I'm dipping even below 150fps at times. I'm losing a lot of gunfights I know I shouldn't be losing, and the game is just unenjoyable as a result of this.
It came to a point where I said "fck it, I will wipe my whole PC clean", which I did. Removed EVERYTHING with a completely fresh install of a DEBLOATED Windows 11, namely this one. PC is running super fast and responsive but my issues in CS2 remain.

i9-12900K, RTX 2080, 16gb RAM 3000mhz

Checklist of what I have tried:

Updated BIOS
Enabled XMP and messed around with overclocking
Enabled Resizable BAR
Checked temperatures, they're fine
Optimized NVidia settings, mostly following u/frequencyCS tips
Optimized in-game settings
Messed around with Windows "gaming" settings with no noticeable results
Updated NVidia drivers
Ultimate Performance power plan

I don't know what to do anymore. I just want to play CS.

[The CREATOR]

I feel your pain I'm running very good specs PC and this game refuses completly to pass the 200 fps mark and feel good and smooth, it's plain piss poor game at this point and valve does nothing about it it's time to delete it and move on mostly

[ms2k7]

im getting a constant 200fps+ but it just feels awful lately. stutters here and there

[skOsH♥]

Clear shader cache.

Use -high -dx11 -nojoy -novid launch options

Uncap the fps in game but then turn the menu fps to about 10fps or 20fps lower than your avg low fps

If you have a version of vsync that isn't vsync, I would enable that.

Lower all gfx settings more. 2x aa, bilinear texture filtering

Download "process lasso" and demand your cpu run cs2.exe with all its might by allocating cpu affinity and priority

Cs2 is notoriously known for only liking to run on a couple cores or so, but you can easily force it to run at 30% capacity if you can get the right cores and threads to cooperate.

Good luck.

Don't forget any bios update, audio drivers, chipset, LAN driver. Those all play a part in reducing input lag.

Edit: if you can successfully lower your cas by 1 or maybe 2, and adjust the other timings, you might have even less lag/stutter

[caaj]

Originally posted by skOsH:

Clear shader cache.

Use -high -dx11 -nojoy -novid launch options

Uncap the fps in game but then turn the menu fps to about 10fps or 20fps lower than your avg low fps

If you have a version of vsync that isn't vsync, I would enable that.

Lower all gfx settings more. 2x aa, bilinear texture filtering

Download "process lasso" and demand your cpu run cs2.exe with all its might by allocating cpu affinity and priority

Cs2 is notoriously known for only liking to run on a couple cores or so, but you can easily force it to run at 30% capacity if you can get the right cores and threads to cooperate.

Good luck.

Don't forget any bios update, audio drivers, chipset, LAN driver. Those all play a part in reducing input lag.

Edit: if you can successfully lower your cas by 1 or maybe 2, and adjust the other timings, you might have even less lag/stutter

My input latency is actually pretty good, it's rather that my FPS has dropped substantially (in particular the 1% and 0.1% lows) seemingly out of nowhere.

[skOsH♥]

Originally posted by caaj:

Originally posted by skOsH:

Clear shader cache.

Use -high -dx11 -nojoy -novid launch options

Uncap the fps in game but then turn the menu fps to about 10fps or 20fps lower than your avg low fps

If you have a version of vsync that isn't vsync, I would enable that.

Lower all gfx settings more. 2x aa, bilinear texture filtering

Download "process lasso" and demand your cpu run cs2.exe with all its might by allocating cpu affinity and priority

Cs2 is notoriously known for only liking to run on a couple cores or so, but you can easily force it to run at 30% capacity if you can get the right cores and threads to cooperate.

Good luck.

Don't forget any bios update, audio drivers, chipset, LAN driver. Those all play a part in reducing input lag.

Edit: if you can successfully lower your cas by 1 or maybe 2, and adjust the other timings, you might have even less lag/stutter

My input latency is actually pretty good, it's rather that my FPS has dropped substantially (in particular the 1% and 0.1% lows) seemingly out of nowhere.

That's when i had to lower my ram timings just a little bit. By essentially 1-2-2-4. I think that's the closest one can change them if already at expo or xmp before it's unstable.

This can help with 0.1% lows.

The 1% lows are alleviated by making sure the fps is going to stay in a consistent range whilst not maxing out the gpu by limiting it out if game

If your pc doesn't want to boot up after that, just remember, pop out that coin cell cmos battery, put it back in, settings go back

Put aggressive fan curve on gpu too. Disable zero rpm when playing cs2

And I would check out process lasso

[Sweet]

we are all in the same bout buddy they messed up the game

[caaj]

Originally posted by skOsH:

Originally posted by caaj:

And I would check out process lasso

I actually tried disabling CPU 0 & 1, but I had extremely small gains.

[skOsH♥]

Originally posted by caaj:

I actually tried disabling CPU 0 & 1, but I had extremely small gains.

I had some luck disabling 0, and then setting affinity to 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8 on very high cpu priority

I made sure I put steam.exe as above normal priority

I'll likely mess around with it more to see if I can get it buttery smooth. Still slight jitter every now and again