Saturday, October 16, 2021

CSGO - Competitive Optimization Settings Guide

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Network Settings Configuration Network Settings can be the most important settings that affect your hit registration in CS:GO, especially if you already have your computer set up correctly. So, we will go into this first. There will be two parts to optimizing your network settings: Network Adapter (hardware) settings and your Windows (software) settings. It is very important you do both of these for best results. Hardware Open your Advanced network adapter settings: Open Device Manger Network Adapters Right click your current network adapter Properties Advanced tab Apply the following values as closely as possible: Originally posted by author: PROPERTY VALUE Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing Disabled Flow Control Disabled Gigabit Master Slave Mode Auto Detect Interrupt Moderation Disabled Interrupt Moderation Rate Off IPv4 Checksum Offload Disabled Jumbo Packet Disabled Large Send Offload V2 (IPv4) Disabled Large Send Offload V2 (IPv6) Disabled Locally Administered Address Not Present Log Link State Event Enabled Maximum Number of RSS Queues 2 (Maximum) Packet Priority & VLAN Disabled Receive Buffers (Maximum) Receive Side Scaling Enabled Speed & Duplex Auto Detect TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4) Disabled TCP Checksum Offload (IPv6) Disabled Transmit Buffers (Maximum) UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4) Disabled UDP Checksum Offload (IPv6) Disabled Wait for Link Enabled Green Ethernet Disabled Press OK Reboot your PC for these changes to take effect. Software Open a Command Prompt as Administrator. Press Start button Type "cmd" without quotes Right click on Command Prompt Click Run as Administrator Enter the following line into Command Prompt as Administrator, and press Enter: netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled Example: Reboot your PC for these changes to take effect. HPET Configuration and Timer Resolution HPET (High Precision Event Timer) settings in Windows can cause major issues if configured improperly. The default settings are acceptable, but not optimal. Here you will find the most optimal settings that have been tested and confirmed by many people, including myself and FREETHY. Configuring the Timer Resolution is also important to reduce system latency, as Windows does not optimize this by default. HPET Configuration You will be performing 3 actions to change your HPET settings. Disabling HPET, disabling synthetic timers, and disabling dynamic tick which is a power savings feature for laptops. Open a Command Prompt as Administrator. Press Start button Type CMD Right click on Command Prompt Click Run as Administrator Enter the following lines into Command Prompt as Administrator, one at a time, and press Enter after each line: bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock bcdedit /set useplatformtick yes bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes To check if you've completed this correctly, enter the following line and press Enter: You should see these 2 lines at the bottom of the list: Reboot your PC for these changes to take effect.

Timer Resolution In order to change the default Timer Resolution, you will be using a program called Intelligent Standby List Cleaner or ISLC. This is a free program by Wagnard you can download from this link: web [www.wagnardsoft.com] Open the program and it will show your Current timer resolution, which will usually be 1ms. You want to change this to 0.5 at all times, so here is how. Check the box by Enable Custom Timer Resolution Type 0.5 in the box by Wanted timer resolution Change ISLC Polling Rate (ms) to 500 Click the Start button Minimize the program to the system tray You're done. This is how it should appear before you minimize: Now your HPET settings and Timer Resolution are set and games may feel slightly more responsive. Nvidia Control Panel Settings Changing some Nvidia Control Panel settings can help reduce latency in your games, if you have an Nvidia graphics card. Right click anywhere on your desktop Click NVIDIA Control Panel Click Manage 3D settings on the left column Here is the recommended configuration. The most important settings are highlighted. FEATURE SETTING Image Sharpening Sharpening off, Scaling Disabled Ambient Occlusion Off Anisotropic filtering Application-controlled Antialiasing - FXAA Off (optional) Antialiasing - Gamma correction On Antialiasing - Mode Application-controlled Antialiasing - Setting Application-controlled Antialiasing - Transparency Off CUDA - GPUs All DSR - Factors Off DSR - Smoothness Off Low Latency Mode Ultra Max Frame Rate Off Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) Off OpenGL rendering GPU Auto-select Power management mode Prefer maximum performance Preferred refresh rate Highest available Shader Cache On Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization On Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias Allow Texture filtering - Quality High performance Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization On Threaded optimization Auto Triple buffering Off Virtual reality pre-rendered frames 1 Virtual Reality - Variable Rate Super Sampling Off Click Apply Registry Tweaks Here are some tweaks you can implement in the Windows Registry that can improve network performance, therefore reducing latency in games. Press Windows Key + R The Run dialog box should appear In the box type regedit and press Enter or click OK In the left pane of the Registry Editor window, navigate to the following locations in the registry. Using the arrow-keys on the keyboard makes this much easier to navigate. Network Throttling Index Windows implements a network throttling mechanism. The idea behind this throttling is that processing of network packets can be a resource-intensive task. It is beneficial to turn off such throttling in order to achieve maximum throughput. Navigate to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile] Right click anywhere in the right pane of the Registry Editor Click New > DWORD(32-bit) Value Name this new value NetworkThrottlingIndex and press Enter Double click the new DWORD and an Edit box should appear Type ffffffff into the box for Value data Select the Hexadecimal radio button Press OK System Responsiveness for Gaming Multimedia streaming and some games that use the “Multimedia Class Scheduler” service (MMCSS) can only utilize up to 80% of the CPU. The “Multimedia Class Scheduler” service (MMCSS) ensures prioritized access to CPU resources, without denying CPU resources to lower-priority background applications. To modify this for pure gaming or streaming, apply this tweak. Navigate to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile][/quote[ Right click anywhere in the right pane of the Registry Editor Click New > DWORD (32-bit) Value Name this new value SystemResponsiveness and press Enter Double click the new DWORD and an Edit box should appear Type 00000000 into the box for Value data Select the Hexadecimal radio button Press OK You can change the priority of games in the same registry hive. Navigate to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\Tasks\Games] Change the following values: Double-click GPU Priority Type 8 into the Value data box for gaming Double-click Priority Type 6 into the Value data box for gaming Press OK

MSI Mode for GPU Enabling MSI mode for your GPU can decrease your system latency. MSI in this context stands for Message Signaled Interrupts, which has nothing to do with the motherboard company Micro-Star International Co. Ltd., also known as MSI. A brief excerpt from Wikipedia: MSI increases the number of interrupts that are possible. While conventional PCI was limited to four interrupts per card (and, because they were shared among all cards, most are using only one), message signalled interrupts allow dozens of interrupts per card, when that is useful. source [en.wikipedia.org] To enable MSI mode for your GPU you will be using MSI mode utility v3. This program is free, and can be downloaded from the following link: web [forums.guru3d.com] EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. THIS TWEAK CAN CAUSE BLUE SCREENS AND SYSTEM CRASHES IF DONE IMPROPERLY OR IF NOT SUPPORTED BY YOUR SYSTEM. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT YOU'RE DOING LEAVE IT ALONE. Open MSI mode utility v3 Look for your NVIDIA GPU on the left column Under "supported modes", look to see if it reads "Msi" If it shows Msi is a supported mode, check the box under the MSI column Change "interrupt priority" to High Press Apply at the top-right of the window Reboot your PC for this change to take effect. More information about MSI mode is available on the aforementioned forum post, and from a quick Google search. Special thanks to Hertz0g and Drax for recommending this tweak. Maximize Rate You want your game to be able to send/receive as much data as possible so you get the smoothest and most instant response. This is a commonly known tweak but some people forget to do this. Note: you need a good connection for this to work properly. Settings > Game > Max Acceptable Game Traffic Bandwidth > UNRESTRICTED Alternatively, you can change your rate setting manually: Launch CS:GO Open console (~) Type rate 786432 Press Enter The most effective method is to add rate 786432 to your autoexec.cfg so it never gets changed when the game receives an update or upon reinstallation. If you are unfamiliar with autoexec files, please refer to the Prosettings guide in the link below: prosettings [prosettings.net] Loudness Equalization There is a sound tweak that can be used to greatly enhance your ability to hear footsteps and sounds from a distance. Hearing things from further away can help you have an advantage or upper hand over your opponents. Note: This tweak will not be available to everyone. It depends on your particular audio setup. You simply have to check and see if it's available. On your Windows 10 taskbar: Press Start button Type sound output device properties Click on Sound Output Device Properties when it appears in the search Make sure Spatial Sound is turned off Scroll down to Related Settings Click Additional device properties Navigate to the Enhancements tab Check the box beside Loudness Equalization if the option is available This tweak effectively compresses sounds in CS:GO (and anything else you do on your PC). This makes quiet sounds the same volume as loud sounds. There is a noticeable difference in the audio. This can be disorienting at first, until you adapt to it, therefore some people may not prefer it. Distant, faint sounds will sound very close to you, but at least you can hear them. You can always go back if you don't like how it sounds. For me, I strongly prefer this setting because I want to hear everything clearly.


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