feeling lag on cs

[robust marten]

Can you show the content of Task Manager > Performance > Memory?

And Task Manager > Performance > your SSD

[versed bridge]

and this too if you need

[robust marten]

When playing games, do you normally have other apps running at the same time?

(while we're at it, also show the CPU tab while not playing a game)

[versed bridge]

i mean right now its around 1% and 6%, with discord, spotify, chrome (8 tabs in it), i have some other apps running on the background too

such as f.lux, wallpaper engine, and translucent taskbar but those don't really take much

and when playing i mostly have those except chrome that i'm closing

[robust marten]

wallpaper engine

[scarlet sleet]

Live wallpapers (e.g. Wallpaper Engine) use system resources and can be considered like running a full-screen game at all times, with the performance drop accompanying it. For best performance while gaming, exit them fully. Do not pause them.

The same also applies to automated wallpaper changing, which will cause a momentary load spike every time the wallpaper changes. This applies even to Windows' own wallpaper changer! Pause the wallpaper changes, or disable it, before playing games, to prevent unexpected periodic stutters.

[robust marten]

You might be seriously forgetting something. This is pretty much like having another game running at all times.

If possible, rerun 3DMark and retest games with Wallpaper Engine fully exited

[versed bridge]

3dmark is already without wallpaper engine

[robust marten]

Also f.lux isn't really necessary on modern Windows either

[versed bridge]

and i already tried closing it etc, but it doesn't really affect my performance over all

it's the same with and without

[versed bridge]

windows one kept making it too yellow so i got this

[robust marten]

Please try with a driver from around that period then

DDU should be the same regardless

[scarlet sleet]

You can download drivers from the official site below. (You will need to specify your GPU and operating system.)

On a laptop, both iGPU and dGPU drivers should be installed for full functionality and performance.

NVIDIA
AMD
Intel

[versed bridge]

okayy and which one do i take

because i really don't know anything about amd drivers 😭

i updated to the latest because i needed it to launch the last of us 2

[robust marten]

You're in a real pickle then, you don't have that option

If only CS is causing issues but not other games I'd investigate if it's the game itself

[versed bridge]

i mean i finished the game but i'm kinda pissed off that i always need to update so the gpu supports newer games

[versed bridge]

well for me it is the game

on reddit or steam forums, i can only see people complaining about the same issue

and i didn't see a fix anywhere

and its people with even better pcs than me

i feel like i'm having bottle neck, on ultra 1080p or low 1080p it doesn't change anything at the frame rate

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/166tha0/cs2_feels_really_choppy_despite_a_constant_high/

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/cs2-feels-choppy-despite-144hz-and-high-fps-–-micro-stutters-not-smooth.3875507/

@robust marten actually i fixed it and it's so dumb, i think the game is broken with both msaa and when its on windowed fullscreen, i'm back on fullscreen without msaa and i'm getting between 350 and 450 fps, it's butter

[robust marten]

msaa is really out of date at this point and should not be used where possible

even with perf to spare

[versed bridge]

well i mean most of the comp games only have msaa or fxaa, fxaa is way too blurry to play, and otherwise its too pixelated even on 1080p, but on other games it's fine