The Performance Drop of CS2

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Guide for playing older CSGO versions

Hardware Unboxed Video

FPS Benchmark Map

[ChupetaDeBaleio]

I think you missed an opportunity to compare older versions of CS2 to current CS2, so we could see how much fps we've lost since

[commanderguyonyt]

The problem with fps as a metric is it's rate of growth. FPS basically grow exponantially fast, 10 fps more seems like nothing if your base fps is 500, but world changing if your base fps are 15 (500 -> 510 is not as big as a jump as 15 -> 25). In game dev, frame time is usually used, which more accuratly describes performance differences and would in this case show a much more clearer picture for the differences in stability. I think from these benchmarks the downgrade in stability from csgo to cs2 would be linear to the decreased fps.

[fkzpc]

frames per second are not as important as frametime consistency

[Lomni]

It's incredible, you can go play battlefield 2042 and have higher FPS with more stuff going on than in a 5v5 CS2 match.

[leeroynewman]

when cs2 came out, i ran the game at 200 fps, now it runs at 120-150...

[isabelle]

You missed the most important thing, how performance degraded massively since the first cs2 beta to now, the huge performance drop isn't justified by ANYTHING, there wasn't anything game changing or graphics update, it's the same shlt, only minor updates

[BaxxyNut]

Recently I've been having these really weird jitter stutters. No problem with my stuff, I don't rubberband or anything, but all enemies/allies jitter around for a minute. Everybody I've talked to is having the same issue currently.

Also, they NEED to rework smokes and mollies. They frame drop SO hard for no reason.

[mewtwo]

You didn't say much here. Your testing had nothing to do with actual real world gameplay and you took your sweet time basically saying "games get more graphically demanding overtime."

[themastermatt]

Bro you have to benchmark while playing on a server, cs2 instability comes in handling duels and utilities….

[Rokiishi]

The issue I have is that I can't even run it smoothly on a 4060ti, r7 5800x & 32gb ram. Fair the game will drop in performance but not even being able to have 300+ 99% of the time is crazy for a game like cs2 in my opinion, the optimization is just terrible.

[ropej]

Battlefield 1 looks miles better compared to cs2 and it has larger maps and still somehow I get more fps from bf1 on higher settings than cs2 on lowest???

[edistefi]

I have 5800x and rtx 3070, csgo max settings mirage avg 500-600 fps, while cs2 barely runs 240 with low settings. This impacted me a lot...

[snrgel]

If cs2 has better visuals, but the majority of the playerbase cant use them, because of performance issues, there is no reason to have them

[evankim]

1:31
Is this a reference to how 3kliksphilip portraited a then hypothetical Source 2 version of Counter Strike back in 2015?

[DJ-ovit]

For those that started playing csgo in the early 2010s!: Was csgo relatively demanding for the average PC back then or did it already start out being really easy to run for everyone?

[RachidWasTaken]

Not being able to play your favorite game because of the lack of a GPU hurts

[mswgysw]

frametime is shit though, i get stutters often when someone is shooting
shame you didnt mention frametime

[pedrolycus]

Performance is not a main reason I stopped playing at all. It's the subtick quality, the mini stutters, peeker's advantage, economy on 13 rounds format and more. I understand that valve plans on evolving the game but for now the game does not feel good to play. It's really sad.

[Luggruff]

Both of these are Volvo basically saying "we are too lazy, so you get the OPPORTUNITY to explore and test this out for us":

-Slightly delayed tagging effects to reduce instances of players experiencing teleportation when taking damage. Delaying tagging results in a smoother experience, however players will have slightly more time to move at full speed when receiving damage. The delay can be adjusted on servers using convar (default 2)
-Added a server setting to control rounds/time during which voting for a level change is allowed.

[Oi]

Yeah the game is unplayable right now. It just stutters. Ping is unpredictable. Taking damage causes a 400 ms frametime lag spike as well as pulling up the score board.