Counter Strike: Global Offensive is currently the most played game on Steam, especially because of the minimal equipment needed to play it, which allows it to reach high frame rates per second and thus benefit from monitors at high frequency. Do you want to know how to run CS:GO with FPS at maximum speed and have an advantage in eSports? We explain it to you.
If you are a user of a high frequency monitor capable of reproducing more than 120 frames per second and you play CS:GO, you will surely be interested in knowing how to get more FPS on your computer. Without changing hardware, it’s really difficult, but on PC anything is possible, because one method will significantly improve your frame rate per second. Let’s see how.
How to get more FPS in CS:GO?
CS:GO, being a game with a DirectX 9 based engine, will use a single core at maximum power, so at this point it’s important to make sure there are no bottlenecks for reduce the time that the processor prepares each frame, because that is milliseconds that are cut and less time per frame more FPS. So the first thing you need to make sure is to have a fast SSD and RAM, especially if you are using an AMD Ryzen which relies its performance on memory speed.
Another thing you will need to look at is that the image is transmitted from the HDMI or DisplayPort output of the graphics card and not from the motherboard, as this adds additional latency when transmitting the image, and you have to hold realize that at FPS rates for CS:GO a few milliseconds can make a big difference. To put it simply: a game at 240 FPS is 4.17ms per frame, while another at around 165 FPS 6 milliseconds. This difference can be caused simply by a delay in said screen output, which significantly reduces performance.
Since the game will run in compatibility mode, make sure in the app properties and specifically the compatibility tab that you check the box that disables fullscreen optimizations, as these add time latency per frame.
Optimization for NVIDIA
The second point is to optimize for the graphics card, if you have an NVIDIA you just have to go to the NVIDIA control panel, find the specific settings for CS:GO and modify the following parameters:
- Anti-aliasing: Controlled by the application.
- Transparency in anti-aliasing: disabled.
- CUDA-GPUs: Everybody.
- RSD: disabled.
- Number of pre-rendered frames: 1.
- MAAA: disabled.
- Supply Mode: maximum performance.
- shader cache: disabled.
- G-SYNC: enabled (if we have a monitor with said technology).
- V-Sync: disabled.
Optimized for AMD
On the other hand, if the GPU you will be using to get the maximum FPS is from AMD from the Radeon Settings app:
- Anti-aliasing mode: Controlled by the application.
- Antialiasing method: Multi-sampling,
- Morphological filtering: Disabled.
- Anisotropic filter: Controlled by the application.
- Texture filter quality: performance.
- Surface format optimization: disabled.
- V-SYNC: always off.
- Triple buffering for OpenGL: disabled.
- shader cache: Optimized for AMD.
- paving: Controlled by the application.
- AMD FreeSync: on (if you have a monitor with this technology).
- Frame rate target control: disabled.
That’s it, also remember to have the minimum number of applications and processes active while running the game and as always keep your graphics drivers up to date. Hope, with these simple steps, you can enjoy FPS in CS:GO at high speed.
