Have you recently looked at your FPS in Counter-Strike and thought to yourself: "Why isn't it higher?". Yeah, we thought so.
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GUIDES
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Have you recently looked at your FPS in Counter-Strike and thought to yourself: "Why isn't it higher?". Yeah, we thought so.
So we scoured the Internet for tips, tricks and ultimately reached out to the famous FPS-fixer Beddy to see what could be done about our problems. Beddy has helped people like jkaem and Chet Singh from 100 Thieves, RUSH from Complexity and STYKO from GODSENT to get huge FPS improvements in game.
After much convincing, Beddy agreed to share his standard setup, plus some of his secret tips, that will guarantee you an improvement of 50-100 FPS depending on your system.
In this guide we'll be covering several topics, some simple and some more advanced. None of them will require you to install external programs or put your PC at risk however.
There are several reasons to having a low FPS (if you don't know how to check your FPS in CS:GO, check this video), but the most normal are:
This is where the magic happens. To start out, we will have to make sure that you have run a FPS test to have benchmark to compare before and after this guide. Usually people will experience boosts of up to 100 FPS by following this guide, but it depends very much on the systems.
1: Download the Steam Workshop map FPS Benchmark and run it without altering anything. Once it is done, write down your FPS benchmark so you have something to compare it to once we're done.
2: Once you have run the test, use the map to change your cvar's to this:
{% c-block language="js" %}
cl_autohelp 0;
cl_disablefreezecam 1;
cl_disablehtmlmotd 1;
cl_showhelp 0;
cl_freezecameffects_showholiday 0;
gameinstructor_enable 0;
mat_queue_mode -1;
r_drawtracers_firstperson 0;
r_dynamic 0;
{% c-block-end %}
3: Test again and write down what your new result is.
Note: Changing r_dynamic to 0 will change the way lighting works in the game, and even though it gives a slight boost you might consider not using it.
We experienced a 14 FPS increase by changing the cvars.
Alright, with the cvars out of the way, we are now going into the things that already should be set up, but just in case we'll go over it anyway.
You can see what it looks low on the below screenshot:
How to avoid FPS drops in CS:GO? That's an age-old question, and changing your Processor settings for CS:GO might be one of the actual answers. The theory is that your different cores have different tasks during your gaming session.
Core 1 (by some math logic, called 0) mostly takes care of everything else than CS while you play. So in this guide we're going to teach you how to avoid it being used for CS at all, which will let it focus on its other tasks, consequently eliminating stutters and drops to some extent.
We experienced less FPS drops after completing this step.
In order to maximize your FPS in game, you will need to change the way your PC handles the frames the game produces. The setting we're mostly interested in is called "Low Latency Mode", which controls how many frames are prepared by the CPU before it hands the task off to the GPU.
Here's how to change it:
If you have problems with other programs crashing after doing this, make sure to change it from {% c-line %}ultra{% c-line-end %} to {% c-line %}on{% c-line-end %}
We experienced a 25 FPS increase by changing this from Off to Ultra.
One of the easiest ways you can improve your ingame performance is simply to delete your temporary and prefetched files. All the files that are clogging up your memory and processes, might actually minimize the impact of the rest of your changes in here, so always make sense to remove these.
How to do it:
We experienced a 21 FPS increase by deleting these files.
Most people have already got their power options sorted, but did you know that most PCs actually has a "Ultimate Performance" power options that's hidden by default?
To change that, first check if it is available.
If that is the case, here is how you get the hidden Power plans to show up:
We experienced a slight increase after changing this, but we had tweaked our Power settings before.
Not as much of an improvement as a fix. If you use Discord or Spotify while you play CS:GO, you need to make sure that they're not using "Hardware Acceleration" as it taxes your GPU and thus impacts your game.
In Discord, click on "User Settings" in the bottom left (the cogwheel) and locate "Appearance". In there make sure that Hardware Acceleration is not switched on:
In Spotify, click the three dots in the top left corner and navigate to "View" and make sure that there's no check mark next to "Hardware Acceleration":
Following this guide should give you an improvement of between 50-100 FPS depending on how powerful your PC is. Remember to always have these points in mind before you check your FPS:
If you're still not satisfied, we would recommend you reaching out to Beddy on Twitter for a 1:1 session where he improves your FPS.
He might even have a few secret tricks or two up his sleeve that can turn your potato into a monster.
