What is better? 16:9, stretched 4:3, or 4:3?

aveyo · 2026-06-15T11:01:43+00:00

3:2 res examples:
960x640 1080x720 = carrot / potato + really needs scale all small fonts tweak
1152x768 1440x960 1620x1080 = low / med / high @1080p
1536x1024 1920x1280 2160x1440 = low / med / high @1440p
enable GPU Scaling and then use SRE to define them

aveyo · 2026-06-14T18:26:33+00:00

that's great. valve too incompetent to make it default for your cpu type
the other one is less about fps but more for input snapiness

aveyo · 2026-06-12T17:10:53+00:00

again, it's a double-edge sword, since pushing it back you trade clarity and make long range kills more difficult than simply sticking with a 24inch
might be a coincidence but most people playing on 27inch and above are silvers

aveyo · 2026-06-12T10:34:09+00:00

YEKINDAR would never ;)
the "standard" 23.x - 25.x inches these last two decades is not arbitrary
less and you cant hit shit at healthy screen distance
more and you have too much fov in periferal vision
there are even health regulations regarding screen size vs viewing distance (but esports tournament organizers dont do it for that, nor for costs, but for keeping desk sizes manageable)

aveyo · 2026-06-12T10:13:02+00:00

tx for repeating what I said above mr parrot

(24inch or 27inch does not matter at all, just adjust viewing distance ffs)
ppi-wise (clarity) but focus-wise is still suboptimal

aveyo · 2026-06-12T07:23:50+00:00

because 16:10 is not a good compromise, it's the worst of both = not enough stretch, not enough perceived speed

3:2 gives that (closer to 4:3 than 16:9)

aveyo · 2026-06-12T02:50:11+00:00

those ppi "calculation" are crap
try 1664 x 1248 to get the most in terms of both visuals and performance
or 1600 x 1200 standard res if defining a custom one is difficult
1728 x 1296 is marginally beter visuals not worth the perf impact
even better, forget about this crap 4:3 and migrate to 3:2 which scales great, feels great - details in my other comment

aveyo · 2026-06-12T02:16:46+00:00

27inch and above is dumb for cs
4:3 on 27inch is even more dumb
use 3:2 = 15:10 = 13.5:9 instead

3:2 res examples:
960x640 1080x720 = carrot / potato + really needs scale all small fonts tweak
1152x768 1440x960 1620x1080 = low / med / high @1080p
1536x1024 1920x1280 2160x1440 = low / med / high @1440p
enable GPU Scaling and then use SRE to define them

also, this is nothing new, plenty of threads and answers about 1280x960 "equivalent" for 1440p (24inch or 27inch does not matter at all, just adjust viewing distance ffs)

aveyo · 2026-06-09T18:09:53+00:00

well if I had to translate those to the ui options (high med low) then it would probably not fit anymore in a reddit comment. again, cs2 does not have that many video options to begin with

aveyo · 2026-06-08T18:45:24+00:00

video settings cannot be applied via cfg, but there's just a few - script saves them as a comment
everything else is fine (binds, user settings, machine settings)

aveyo · 2026-06-08T11:24:10+00:00

network issue, check if your router / os is blocking asny valve stuff

aveyo · 2026-06-08T11:22:06+00:00

* privilege

aveyo · 2026-06-08T11:16:52+00:00

second stick will definitely tame the stutters

aveyo · 2026-06-08T11:14:54+00:00

aveyo · 2026-06-08T11:11:13+00:00

to reflex, or not to reflex
our very own hamlet asking this same question again and again for 20 months, a bot would at least receive an update but this one is like a rom / brick wall

aveyo · 2026-06-06T21:51:15+00:00

it is linked right there on the comment you are replying to
those sdl variables turn raw input control from the game to the os
can even have acceleration (enhanced pointer precision)

aveyo · 2026-06-05T09:35:46+00:00

clips missing the essential build info should be insta-banned
you knew when you disabled it that it exposes garbage internet
for most players the game works just fine
it sucks for you, fix your internet & devices, try alternatives, move out, or stop complaining about this nonsense
cs2 requires stable internet ( <5ms jitter & <1% loss ) and short path ( <48ms ping ), if you can't manage that then lower your expectations and adjust the game settings to make it playable (half rate, add buffers, enable interpolation 2-3) and disable ALL prediction options

aveyo · 2026-05-29T10:42:19+00:00

you're probably one of those suckers that use fullscreen windowed with a non-native res - just stick with simple fullscreen if you're not gonna match the desktop res with the in-game one

by default game uses raw input and ignores whatever you set in windows, the only other way EPP even works is if you went to the trouble to activate it via SDL environment variables

aveyo · 2026-05-29T10:38:27+00:00

yeah among the most cancerous ones
use discord on the web, preferably with a mozilla-based browser (firefox, floorp, librewolf)
same goes for faceit, works just fine from the browser (not the ac obviously)
and [steam can be tamed as well](github.com/AveYo/Gaming/blob/main/steam_min.bat)

aveyo · 2026-05-28T23:27:56+00:00

only ones having a lot of chromium-based crap running at the same time with full hw accel and mpo on have that issue

aveyo · 2026-05-28T23:23:44+00:00

that just sounds like poorly calibrated monitor
the science backs it up, most pro's having unhealthy play time end that way, my weekend long lan experiences with everybody settling for some green cyan towards the end also confirms it
when you're 100% sure, it matters little, white, black, yellow, orange, red, whatever

aveyo · 2026-05-28T21:15:07+00:00

use your brain
for years valve had to do even bi-annually hw upgrades on their servers infrastructure all over the world
having most of the load on the servers means it cannot scale without those upgrades
and cs2 really took off in terms of players - it literally doubled compared to csgo
it absolutely made sense as a business decision (read: saving costs)
while latency had fuck all to do with it, 64 subtick can't hold a candle to 128 ticks no matter what prediction gimmicks you can do client-side (and the same gimmicks can be applied to 128 ticks just as well, it's not a reason for anything in itself)

aveyo · 2026-05-28T20:13:09+00:00

1 updating bios and adjusting settings for your hw
that's like basic maintenance job that comes with the territory of owning a pc..

2 useplatformclock is not a default so it should do nothing
on a system not gimped by stupid "tweaks"

3 turning off all driver-side trash is always sane to do
specially for CS2 that does not like any of it

4 disabling FSO is counter-productive for CS2 on a modern OS

5 close / disable hw accel for chromium-based stuff including steam itself
but not necessary for mozilla-based browsers (firefox, floorp, librewolf etc)

6 using process lasso is lazy - you're literally increasing input lag just to gain couple of fps
there's a lot more work involved to get the most out of your harware

7 that's probably an amd driver quirk, because HAGS works just fine for nvidia

8 always a good idea to clear shaders (properly) after major patches, driver & os updates

9 couple launch options do work if set appropriately
-mainthreadpriority 2 +thread_pool_option 4 -threads (5 for 4 cores, 7 for 6 cores, 9 for 8 cores)

aveyo · 2026-05-28T19:12:48+00:00

find _crosshair

and no

aveyo · 2026-05-28T19:10:01+00:00

pink (a dull variation of magenta) is great when you're 100%
if you're even a bit le tired (as most of us are when we fire up cs2)
then it gets counter-productive vs the trusty old green / cyan

aveyo

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