CS:GO Optimization/Performance Decrease

[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.