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CS2: Ultimate performance guide: best settings and fps boost

Get the best performance in your CS2 games

Topic: CS2: Ultimate performance guide: best settings and fps boost

Lags in the game massively decrease your game experience and are not fun. More frames per second significantly increase potential reaction time and create a smoother game experience. That's why we decided to look at some settings that will hopefully give you the best performance in CS2 and increase your FPS.

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CS2 Best Settings and FPS Bosst

Turning your settings to the lowest overall might seem smart, but that is not always the case. In today’s article, we focus on the best settings for both FPS and overall in-game experience, such as spotting an enemy or seeing through fading smokes.

CS2 Best Settings and FPS Boost

Best Video Settings in CS2

The embedded picture below shows the video settings, where you change to either full screen 16:9 or stretched 4:3. Based on what maximizes your frames per second, choosing 4:3 is definitely the better option. However, it is highly dependent on whether you like your game to be stretched or native; that is completely up to you.

CS2 Best Settings and FPS Boost

The best fps and graphic settings for CS2

CS2 offers quite a few options when trying to obtain maximum performance and in-game advantages, but these following have been proven highly reliable since its release.
  • Resolution: 1920 x 1080 for 16:9 or 1280 x 1024 for 4:3
  • Refresh Rate: Your monitor’s highest (144 Hz e.g.)
  • Display Mode: Fullscreen
  • Brightness: To your liking however 100% is nicely balanced
  • Boost Player Contrast: Enabled
  • V-Sync: Disabled
  • Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: Enabled
  • Anti-Aliasing: 4x MSAA
  • Global Shadow Quality: Medium
  • Dynamic Shadows: All
  • Model / Texture Detail: Medium
  • Texture Filtering Mode: Anisotropic 4x
  • Shader Detail: High
  • Particle Detail: Medium
  • Ambient Occlusion: Medium
  • High Dynamic Range: Performance
  • FidelityFX Super Resolution: Disabled (Highest Quality)

You might wonder how these are the ultimate FPS and performance settings if texture details are set to medium and shader details are on "high"? Those settings are essential for spotting enemies and having a smoother overall in-game experience.

Conclusion

We hope you enjoyed our ultimate performance guide, which includes the best settings and fps boosts for maximizing your fps and overall in-game experience and giving you the edge over your opponent.

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