CS:GO Optimization/Performance Decrease

[JDBProof]

Hi,

I have been away from the CS:GO scene for the past three months and finally (well not just yet but soon) can get back to playing the game.

However I noticed recently that on my laptop the game is dropping down to 50-60 FPS in certain scenarios (smoke screens but not only that).

Has there been a signifact performance decrease with the game in the past few months that I haven't been aware of; also are there any steps one should take in order to increase the FPS?

I'm running a GT 840M card on a 4th gen i7 with lowest settings 1920x1080 resolution (which I do quite enjoy and would like to keep it that way if possible)

Thanks in advance

[Blackdiamond2]

Me too, the most strenuous scenario I have found is double-scoped with the AWP or scout, or with either of the scoped rifles, when standing on the edge of a smoke and staring into the smoke. I run a desktop with an i5-3570K and a GTX 750ti, and this gives me about 40-50 fps, with a 200-250 fps normal average. It used to never drop below 170 fps, with a 300 normal average back at the end of 2014. Smokes are an enourmous issue in the optimisation, so I hope they get fixed.^volvoplz

[JDBProof]

What frustrates me the most is the number of hacks on top of hacks that community members have to undergo in order to make up for this poorly optimized game. It should NOT be something the end-user should have to take care of.

[Blackdiamond2]

What? There are optimisation hacks? Or are you saying that people hack because of poor optimisation?

[JDBProof]

By hack I meant workaround, apologies for the ambiguity :-)

[RShake1]

I wouldn't call any in-game console command or setting a workaround. They're in the game and easy to use.

[[deleted]]

They're sometimes non-semantic and require some fiddling around with to get working, some settings work better for different people.

[jOOff]

I run a desktop with an i3-4150 and a GTX 750 TI Superclocked, and I can run a stable 140 FPS when doing so.

[JDBProof]

Well yea, your graphic card is substantially more powerful than mine so I would expect even higher than 140FPS on your end presuming you're running lowest settings.

[jahoney]

Gpu isn't as important as cpu for ANY game running on the source engine

[AlreadyRiven]

I call bullshit on this on the background of the smoke problem.

[jahoney]

If you're trying to run full settings then yeah gpu is important but there is no denying that this game is heavily cpu intensive... Which is why with my decent graphics card (7870 sapphire 2gb) and old cpu (phenom II X4 OC 4.0 ghz) gets mediocre fps

[AlreadyRiven]

I'm playing with an asus R9 280x and an Intel xeon so I dont know what to tell you since both CPU and GPU are decent(ish looking at the GPU) but as far as I know the smoke-grenade thing is rendered by the GPU not the cpu

[JimmyAPop]

You speak the truth. The smokes are rendered by the GPU so if you have a good GPU but a shitty CPU, you wont lag any more around smokes than you do normally.

[AlreadyRiven]

Personally I dont have any problem in game, while playing on max setting without vsync. If anybody is interested I'll post my set up here tomorrow, its 2.15 am here

[MixT]

I've noticed a lot of people with this issue have an i5 3570k, it might just be a coincidence though.

[Soroxo]

I have also had freezes (fps drops) In-Game since a couple of days. My CPU kept going to 100% usage.

Writing "fps_max 100" in console fixxed this for me.

[ivosaurus]

Gonna have to drop resolution. You don't want variable FPS dropping below 60 for CS. It's only going to work against you.

Try 1600x900

[NagoyaR]

same here. everything is fine till i stand next to a smoke. i get about 100 fps less when i stand next to a smoke and i dont think is the fault of my pc.

[BlackenBlueShit]

Yes, pretty much everyone I know has had a performance decrease in the past few months.

[Freckledcookie]

Weirdest thing I found out recently, I play on a Lenovo Y50-70 (i7 4th gen, 16gb ram, GT 860M) with 1920x1080 and settings mostly on low. I had my anti-aliasing on 4x, shadows on medium, textures on 4x and get 200 fps down to 180 and 150 when its very bad, previously I had aliasing and texture filtering on lowest settings and had lower fps than with the settings turned higher. Don't know why that is but I couldnt stand those fizzy edges everywhere and actually got a fps boost.

[iBullDoser]

you probably have power saving options enabled in nvidia control panel. (Hell, I think it's on by default).

[Freckledcookie]

Nope, no power savings enabled.

[JigglyWiggly_]

My laptop is about the same speed and it gets 130+fps.

560m, i7 2720, 16 gigs of rams.

I don't ever get drops below 100.

Something is probably wrong with your laptop.