The ultimate guide to boosting CS2 FPS: The best settings for maximum performance

If you need to improve CS2 FPS, welcome to the ultimate guide. We will cover a CS2 stuttering solution, the best settings for CS2, how to fix low FPS in CS2 and the best graphics settings for performance.

First, let's discuss why you may have low FPS in CS2 right now.

Make sure your PC hardware meets the requirements. This seems obvious, but if your PC doesn't meet the recommended specifications for the game, the game is going to run slow. Likewise, make sure there are no CPU hogs running in the background. Open Task Manager and make sure there is nothing running in the background that is affecting your FPS.

Make sure your drivers are up to date and, if it's your first time, run a virus scan.

Best settings for CS2

Resolution will have an effect on your FPS, with the obvious revelation that fewer pixels will increase performance. 1280x1024 is a fairly common resolution that will be better for your FPS than native, but it won't look as clean. But don't worry: many professionals play with lower resolutions, so you're not hurting yourself.

The best settings for CS2 are somewhat subjective, but some are more objective. Your performance will be better if you play at full screen, and we recommend that you keep the refresh rate at the maximum your monitor can support.

If you really need an FPS boost in CS2, you'll need to go to the advanced video settings. Lower the shadow quality, shader detail and particle detail to Low, and set the high dynamic range to Performance. Disable V-sync, Anti-Aliasing and Ambient Occlusion, and enable NVIDIA Reflex.

These are the best settings to increase CS2 FPS:

Increase Player Contrast: Enabled Wait for Vertical Sync: Disabled Current Video Values Preset: Custom Multisampling Anti-Aliasing Mode: None (you may need to change this if you notice some strange particle effects) Global Shadow Quality: Medium/Low Model/Texture Quality: Low Texture Filtering Mode: Bilinear Shader Detail: Low Particle Detail: Low Ambient Occlusion: Disabled High Dynamic Range: Performance Fidelity FX Super Resolution: Performance NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Enabled + Boost.

If you get a considerable increase in FPS in CS2 after these changes, you can try changing some of the qualities to Medium/High in general and get a good balance between higher FPS and graphics quality. Start with Shadow Quality and Super Resolution Fidelity FX.

Best NVIDIA CS2 settings to increase FPS

If you're not done tweaking yet, open the NVIDIA control panel and go to Manage 3D settings. Here you'll find a lot of settings to play with, and again you can tweak them to improve graphics quality over time, but to fix the low FPS in CS2 these settings should help.

You can keep most of the default settings, but you should change these:

DSR - Factors: Off Low Latency Mode: On Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance Texture Filtering - Quality: High Performance.

Image Scaling claims that it will increase the FPS of your application, but in our tests, we found that it had no effect. Ambient Occlusion has a Performance setting, but turning it off is better for performance.

Windows tweaks to increase CS2 FPS

If you are still having problems with FPS or need a solution for stuttering, you can try these Windows settings.

The first thing you need to do is open C:Program Files (x86) and right click on cs2.exe. You may have installed it on a different drive, so try D:³ if you can't find the file.

Open Properties, go to Compatibility and check the Disable Full Screen Optimization box, even if it seems counterproductive.

You can try enabling Game Mode through the Game Mode Settings, which might help.

You can clear temporary files, which works similar to clearing the browser cache to make it run a little faster. Open the Run window (Windows key + R at the same time) and type temp. Select all files and delete them. Don't forget to delete them from the recycle garbage can.

The best release options for CS2 FPS.

They're unlikely to have a massive effect, but any incremental changes to FPS should help fix the stuttering and low FPS issues in CS2.

-nojoy is not as depressing as it sounds, and instead disables joystick support so the program has one less thing to worry about. -high is a useful one that makes CS2 a higher priority for your PC, so it really puts its back into it, and +r_dynamic 0 removes dynamic lighting, which makes the game look worse, so be careful.

+fps_max removes the FPS limit, and -fullscreen makes the game run fullscreen, although this is largely covered by the settings you changed earlier.

Here's a copy-and-paste line for you:

+fpsmax-nojoy*-high -fullscreen +rdynamic0*

If you complete all the steps in this guide, you'll have better FPS in CS2!