CS2 Input Lag Guide - Best Settings for LOW LATENCY

if you want to know more about what other factors can impact latency in your games or just more about what it is I'm testing here check out the first video in this series on Rainbow Six Siege I'll link it in the cards for you right let's take a look at latency in CS2 in general CS2 is still quite a work in progress so valve may change or add settings that can change the results here and as always uh this is the performance from from my system a ryzen 97940 HS RTX 4060 laptop machine specifically so your mileage may vary Now settings wise we have the usual presets very high high medium and low plus Nvidia reflex an AMD FSR all to play around with starting on very high and working our way down that comes out to a pretty Dreadful 27 milliseconds of end to end latency on average for context the high preset drops 5 milliseconds off the top to bring that down to 21.9 milliseconds that's still pretty high but certainly better and let's face it you weren't playing CS2 for its compelling visuals the medium preset offers a very significant drop in fact it basically halves the latency down to 11.2 milliseconds that's a huge difference like how do you cut the input lag clean in half well if we take a look at the FPS difference you might see a trend of why on the high preset this machine was clocking in 249 FPS average on medium it hit just shy of 400 how you might ask well if we take a look at the settings page and the high reset you'll find that Fidelity FX super resolution is disabled now if we switch to medium you'll see that it's now enabled and on the quality preset bearing in mind the the the fact that this display I'm using here is a 240 Herz panel the fact that enabling FSR and lowering a couple of the settings can still half the latency is incredible and Mirror to the results that I saw in Rainbow Six Siege AMD really has made some special sauce here seeing as there is such a high difference between high and medium you kind of expect low to bring the same sorts of gains sadly that just isn't the case low only drops around half a millisecond off down to 10.5 milliseconds in total so for the the base presets alone there's your spread medium and low both work perfectly well with basic basically the same performance anyway uh though there are a few more combinations I would like to try out before we finish first is enabling Nvidia Reflex on the low presets low with reflex and boost does nothing in fact it makes the average worse by 0.1 milliseconds if for some insane reason you wanted to place the S2 on the very high preset reflex does a good job bringing the average to just under what the high preset result gave at 21.2 milliseconds down from 27 milliseconds without reflex but like don't use very high just just don't moving back to the low presets I thought it'd be interesting to change the FSR settings to stick it on Ultra performance up from the balanced mode that the low preset normally uses that drops the result by 1.5 milliseconds and at least at 1600p it doesn't harm the image image quality too badly and so it's a perfectly usable setting and the best result so far if you're wondering what vsync does to your latency keep in mind that this is a 240 display meaning it's one of the faster panels on the market yeah that ain't great either even using the low preset with FSR on Ultra performance it jumps to double at 8 18.6 milliseconds that's Dreadful so obviously don't use vsync if you care about low latency the last thing I wanted to try was dropping the resolution down to 1200p to see if that made any difference surprisingly it didn't the average did drop a touch more down to 8.7 milliseconds but it's hardly a worthwhile change even on this 4060 laptop chip some systems might react better to that change but at least on my system here it doesn't make much of a difference although I think I know why if I stick up the FPS results from those tests you might see a bit of a pattern despite running the FPS Max zero command on Startup as I do for all Cs and csgo testing CS2 seems to be limited to around 45 FPS or so on average at least on this system if anyone more famili familiar with cs in general has any sort of suggestions I would love to hear them in the comments down below and try and test them out but still the lack of FS improvements coupled with the lack of pipeline optimizations available I.E reflex does nothing on low means that you don't see any major improvements still seeing the difference from just turning FSR on at all is such a big jump that it seems worth doing regardless of what settings you want to play at so to summarize the low and medium presets are about the same both in performance and in latency setting FSR to ultra performance does Net you a small Advantage so it's probably worth doing that too dropping the resolution doesn't seem to do much at least on my system but feel free to play around at your native resolution and you can be pretty confident in knowing you're getting pretty much the best experience from CS2 at least from latency perspective if you have any questions or suggestions for other things I should test either games or settings in games please do let me know in the comments down below I would love to improve these videos and to make more on different games to suit whatever you're playing right now and otherwise that's kind of it if you want to see these videos and be notified of them when they do come out hit the Subscribe button and turn on the Bell notification icon and if you want to be able to test this stuff yourself or perhaps get your other favorite reviewers to test it too they can pick up an osrt or in this case OS LT units at osr t.com I make them literally in my house just downstairs from this table and then ship them worldwide otherwise thanks for watching hope you enjoyed it we'll see you all in the next video

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Length: 7min 14sec (434 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 15 2023