Tired of getting low FPS in CS:GO? We can help you improve your situation. There are many ways to yield more FPS from a well-optimized game like Counter-Strike. We shall go over two of those methods.
Tweaks In-Game to Boost FPS in CS:GO
- In-Game Settings- Firstly, you want to ensure that your Laptop Power Savings has been switched off as it would choke the performance of your rig. Coming to the Advanced Video settings, you will have to lower your graphics settings to achieve improvement in the output of your GPU. Make sure to disable the ‘Wait for Vertical Sync” option as it is responsible for locking your FPS according to the refresh rate of your monitor, which usually lowers the Avg. FPS when turned on. To avoid core parking and unlock all the cores present on your processor, turn on Multi-core rendering. Besides the Vertical Sync option, do not forget to turn off Motion Blur for a better gaming experience.
- Launch Settings- To get a huge boost in performance, you must make use of launch options with the help of Steam. Changes to the launch options can be made by going to your, look for Counter-Strike : Global Offensive and right click on the title, go to properties, and choose the ‘set launch options’. Here is a list of the launch commands that you should enter here:
-novid
-high
-threads “Z” : Z signifies the number of cores on your processor
-freq “X” : X signifies the refresh rate of your screen
Tweaks on your System to Boost FPS in CS:GO
- Check for driver updates- Open NVIDIA Geforce Experience and check if any graphics driver updates are available. Download and install it to improve your framerate by a margin.
- NVIDIA Control Panel Settings- Open the NVIDIA Control Panel settings and click on ‘Add’. On the drop-down menu, select CS:GO. Now you will see that you can change the settings from within the same window:
Vertical Sync: Off
Threaded Optimization: On
Texture Filtering-Trilinear Optimization: Off
Texture Filtering – Anisotropic sample optimization: Off
Texture Filtering-Quality: High Performance
Texture Filtering -negative LOD bias: Allow
Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance
Triple Buffering: Off
Maximum Pre-rendered Frames: 1
Preferred refresh rate: Highest Available
Anisotropic Filtering: Off
Antialiasing-Gamma Correction: Off
Besides these two methods, several workarounds are available on the internet to lower texture and resolution from outside the game. For potato PCs, there are very low-spec mods available on the web, but if you have any system that you bought in the last five years, you do not need them.
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