The COMPLETE CS2 Settings Guide 2024 (Resolution, Video, Audio Crosshair, FPS, and More)

[@vooCSGO]

leetify.com/voo thx to @frequencyCS for help (and he's helped on many other videos as well) if you're having trouble seeing through molotovs, lowering your brightness and increasing model\texture detail will make it a lot easier. UPDATES to the information in this video: MSAA2x seems to be a beneficial setting if your computer can handle it, as in certain positions it gives a significant boost in visibility through grates - www.reddit.com/gallery/18ikmaw Model/Texture Detail can impact your FPS quite a bit when you're directly next to smokes. heavily PC dependent. at 11:40 the command that should be set to 1 is actually lower in the notepad, "setting.lb_enable_shadow_casting". the setting I show in the video actually WORKS to get shadows back on, however you may lose more FPS than if you change the other setting. note: for the FPS tests, I would change the setting, restart the game, launch directly into a demo, go to tick, start, then end after the same amount of time, every time. each test was 70~ seconds and any odd findings I tested 3-4 more times (and some of them in different settings as well). I tried to make sure it was a round with a significant amount of stuff going on including util and kills.directly next to smokes. heavily PC dependent.

[@sibbeplaystv3636]

you can get banned if you have jumpthrow bind i think

[@izemes]

man you're a genius

[@habsnyc]

Also what would you recommend for a cpu+gpu combo for consistent 250 fps?

[@sibbeplaystv3636]

there is websites for that you shouldent ask voo he dosent know that check pc benchmark and youtube@@habsnyc

[@nINJAP3RUNA]

I don't think so@@sibbeplaystv3636

[@stewRS]

I'd recommend putting "show location" under Show Team Positions in HUD, and binding a hotkey under keybinds for team equipment to mouse5 or something similar so you can still get information of your teams available utility. There's been so many times I've died or not been able to see something because the massive weapon icons are blocking your vision. This still lets you keep the information of your teammates position through walls + their HP without too much vision lost.

[@RauchPotato]

I added this keybind but it doesn't toggle it only takes it away. any ideas on how to fix this?

[@sonoramic]

What’s your autoexec for it?

[@stewRS]

@@RauchPotato It's not a toggle, you have to hold your key to see utility / weapons. If it doesn't work check your console that this command "cl_teamid_overhead_mode 1" is a 1 instead of a 2.

[@3rdfriend]

for all those guys doing the settings in warmuptime ==Advanced video settings== *vsync off *player contrast: minor impact, decide for yourself, many pros dont use it *multisampling: None if you play native resolution; CMAA2 when upscaling *shadows: high or very high. Lower settings will reduce viewing distance for shadows. If your system can't handle it, use low and goto 11:35 *model detail: medium *texture filtering: Antisoptic x16 *shader particle: low *ambient occlusion: medium *HDR: quality (gets rid of graininess) *fidelity: pc dependant and if you use downscaling set to performance *NVIDIA reflex: enabled when your system is stronger ==Audio== *eq: crisp (other can better with natural) *L/R isolation: 50% *Perspective correction: OFF *Music: everything 0% Mute MVP Music when Player of both teams are alive - YES

[@rafaelcarvalho6222]

Thanks

[@charanxs7002]

thanks

[@ericlivernoche522]

You're a legend.

[@zaketenyu1932]

ty for this, he said natural on eq profile tho

[@Andre_7771]

he said "crisp is ass" not "Pick crips" on eq

[@Tommo_]

To clear up FSR, enabling it will render your game internally at a lower resolution, at a percentage of the resolution you have the game set at. Performance being something like 50% and quality something like 90% (these numbers are just rough estimates). Only enable it if you are GPU bound (you are maxing out your GPU at 100% usage). Start with quality and keep dropping it until your fps doesnt increase anymore/are no longer GPU bound, or cant stand the graininess lol

[@UCnjwYztT1rar-cdS2iexL5Q]

I have rtx3070 and 5800x3d my gpu usage is 100% and i have fsr disabled, should i enable or what?

[@Tommo_]

@@UCnjwYztT1rar-cdS2iexL5Q if you're happy with the fps you are currently getting, no. If you want more, try setting it to quality mode.

[@irfanysff]

im playing @1280*960 stretched. FSR disabled is a must, lol. Even with quality, the graining still looks quite peculiar.

[@Tommo_]

@@irfanysff yeah its definitely more effective for people running native or custom res close to native.

[@DoYouKnowWhoKnew]

Voo doing god's work as always. Thank you. Cs2 release made me want to pick the game up again and I forgot about folks like you over the years, glad you still going, much love

[@prav4981]

The Model/Texture setting mostly affects FPS while standing close to smokes, the difference is actually huge

[@pyatnica6588]

So a lot less FPS with medium/high setting?

[@prav4981]

@@pyatnica6588 it really depends on the system, for me fps dropped from around 270 to 220 when being near the smoke. I still use medium though because low is too ugly

[@noahschuler6388]

also has to do with how much VRAM there is

[@lucaseb7225]

Same happened to me. Affects only when close to smoke.

[@orin8575]

i ended up upgrading from rx560 to 3070 because of this

[@lucaseb7225]

Global Shadow Quality: after the Call to Arms update, setting to Low will disable the shadows from smokes, which can be a competitive advantage in some scenarios (ex: an enemy hiding inside the smoke will have its shadow visible on Low but not on High, because on High the smoke shadow covers it).

[@izemes]

the right solution for using black bars in cs2 is by marking that little box "Override... set by programs" then you'll get BlackBars 13:37

[@patrikmedia]

you don't need to put autoexec on the launch options, it will trigger automatically if named like that. if you use a different name for the cfg, then it makes sense to put it into the launch options

[@HellDuke-]

One alias I made as to toggle the follow recoil setting and change the crosshair colour (red is off, green is on). The jumpthrow bind I feel is worthless in CS2, I don't think I've ever failed any jumpthrow that had anything to do with me messing up the jumpthrow rather than the crosshair placement. I'd say pros have it because they are used to it and not because it's of any use, just like with the aspect ratio.

[@guacamoly-.]

Omg the toggle crosshair thing is genius, I would keep messing up due to having it enabled/disabled at the wrong time as there is no visual cue to know whether it's on or off. I'll have to try that!

[@KanoKendama]

Mind dropping the crosshair bind in here?

[@impyrobot]

Drop it please and thanks 🙏

[@soli2859]

you can't just say all of that and not drop the bind 😞

[@RustyPeng]

This video was exhausting to keep up with.

[@w4rr0ck_svcks]

One thing to consider is that texture/model quality is it also affects the bullet tracers. On low they become super large and blurry, which for me makes it hard to keep track of the enemy and where I’m shooting. On medium they become much thinner and less distracting. I’m still waiting for the option to turn them off completely like in csgo.

[@lindaville2577]

On medium, there is a much larger fps dip when a nade explodes inside the smoke. My fps dipped from 600 to 400 on medium and about 20-50 on low. That massive 200fps drop causes a huge stutter sometimes in fights. Locking fps helps with this but doesn't mitigate it fully though.

[@lindaville2577]

If you learned to read then you'd know. If someone has a 500hz monitor or even 360hz monitor then yes, you need all that fps. I personally don't but like I said, the stutter happens even when you cap your framerate. That effect is greater with less powerful PCs.

[@fetrox]

​@Dino40917I am using 240 hz monitor and just 200+ it's not fine for me. 300+ it's fine

[@Heipooo]

alias "+jthrow" "+jump" alias "+2jthrow" "-attack; -attack2" alias "+3jthrow" "-jump" bind alt "+jthrow; +2jthrow; +3jthrow" alias "+rthrow" "+forward; +jump" alias "+throw" "-attack; -attack2" alias "-rthrow" "-jump; -forward" bind h "+rthrow; +throw"

[@eligross328]

7:20 I put my first 100 hours into CS after CS2 came out and couldn't agree more: Keep dynamic + follow recoil on for a while before going static. Static is absolutely better ONLY when your movement/accuracy skills improve beyond rookie status. Also just going to say Don't Peek With W while I'm here. Thanks Voo!

[@blakexi7162]

Should test the input latency on the display settings as well, probably more important than just 5 fps difference

[@karhu07]

6:05 perspective correction works for me well since i play a bit further away from my monitor. Also this same thing was on by default in csgo, but you couldnt change it. Like it says, if you sit extremely close, turn it off. I personally hear better with it on.

[@sinz__]

bro what🤣how does distance from your monitor affect what comes through your headphones

[@CraftyyFruit]

DUDE i actually put perspective correction on as well lmao! And its not because I play far from the monitor. Radiant University EP.2 N0ted's Warmup - Valorant. In this video by the youtuber Noted. I did the second exercise where you turn around when you hear the sound and click the head but I recreated it on aimbotz and perspective correction was better for some reason???? WTFFFFF. So I'm keeping it on. I tried all combinations of L/R isolation and perspective correction. I found 0% L/R and perspective correction ON, was the best

[@mohamedabdulkarim779]

I was playing on high settings, but i changed it after watching this video. Now my game is lagging, thank you voo 🙂

[@hodlcopter420]

lol ruff

[@mohamedabdulkarim779]

@@hodlcopter420 It was just because I changed the video setting from widened to full-screen

[@barnyhof2334]

Multisampling Anti-Aliasing mode is actually critical that you keep it on 2xMSAA or higher, at least on veritgo. If you have it on None or CMAA2, you can't see through the grate on B site

[@vooCSGO]

good call. noted in the pinned comment, thanks for the info

[@sparkysmutsmedia]

This helped, thanks!

[@lolilolmdrxd]

The first time i'm so agree with a person about preference settings, good explain

[@zertbrown4642]

THank you for the vid voo, I was confused what audio setting I should have

[@ash-yb8bq]

bro ur voice is like a knife in my ear!

[@Tengaii]

Thanks bro

[@zophuro]

i always count on voo for cs settings ty voo

[@Sakaturo1]

There’s tons of testing that’s been done that shows latency is significantly increased under 800dpi. Optimum tech does great vids on this but basically after 800+ the latency increase is basically negligible but under 800 u start seeing near full millisecond even 2-3 milliseconds when going to 800 to 200. There’s a reason most things advertise minimum for 800. Higher dpi is always best. If u use 800 4.0 sens jump to 1600 half sens in game to 2.0 and watch how it feels more responsive. It’s barely anything but u can notice is if ur running a high refresh rate setup. It’s worth it

[@remrem6486]

Great video

[@proVider181]

Usually I play good, but now you made me rethink my life. I play on default since always, im shocked how many options people change to play good

[@littlepatw]

Thanks, raised my FPS by 50!

[@HannibalBarcaRTW]

Thanks I topped fragged at 110 adr first game using these.

[@V-XENO]

Awesome video, really goes to show how much just setting everything to "Low" isn't an "end all" solution to low FPS. The HDR grain fix really highlights that some settings are unintentionally not what they seem and may help in different ways.

[@IntergalacticBrowny]

A few weeks ago i had some guy arguing with my that stretched res wasn't a disadvantage and that the people were bigger and easier to hit when the only difference it makes is deleting a 5th of your fov, and im not saying its bad and you shouldn't use it, play whatever you're comfortable with, but it still IS a disadvantage, wether the placebo works for you or not

[@thehoodie7740]

another thing with 4:3 stretched is that it also makes it easier to hold very tight angles

[@spobus]

This one is super important. TYSM!

[@ryanlewis-ow2yz]

you can bind the follow recoil setting so it follows ur crosshair only when mouse1 is held

[@vutebeats]

ty for making this vid. i wasnt really enjoying cs2 cuz some of my settings are scuffed and too lazy to change it without knowing what to do

[@pred1993]

21560x1440 is one crazy ultrawide monitor

[@Golfboy3_3]

He’s playing on the the wall by samsung

[@vilmfilm]

Past 5 years been playing with 2000 dpi amd im ok. Recently chamged to 1000 dpi and DAM im now getting average 20 kills per game. It feels much better and i can actual control recoil

[@ChingChingChon]

thanks.

[@CS2SkinInspect]

Disliked because said that 1.6 sucks.

[@Aha5653ch.]

1.6 is gmod bro just play with bots and download custom mods

[@AtticusT]

I disliked this comment

[@Bilbo187]

1.6 best game ever out of all the games in the world, was one of my first games and it will be the last game i play

[@Aziz4ik_]

​@@AtticusT bro...

[@Fonkemman]

1.3 is the best. 1.6 has no jump crouch air walk.

[@jimmywest1]

Jump throw aliases easier to do like this: Normal jumpthrow: alias "+throw" "-attack; -attack2" bind "h" "+jump; +throw" Step forward jumpthrow: alias "+runthrow" "+forward;+jump;" alias "-runthrow" "-jump;-forward" bind , "+runthrow;+throw"

[@garskocheating]

0:21 my heart just awwh :(

[@Lulzykek]

Hating 1.6 is wild

[@CalshofAwesome]

you recommend starting with the sens that most pros are good with who have 15k hours. I think using a lower sens for new players allows them to be more accurate shooting someone. They aren’t needing a high sense flicking from person to person & dodging utility all the time. Maybe I’m wrong idk

[@piano.motorcycle]

You dont need the autoexec in launch options anymore. CS2 automatically execs the autoexec

[@alfred9805]

I can confirm this

[@shockat5070]

you can bind the follow recoil setting so it follows ur crosshair only when mouse1 is held

[@xtrnxs8921]

Changing resolution also helps for low end cpu's, I have a i3-9100f & GTX 1650 and playing with 1920x1080 medium settings made my cpu run at 100% at 4.0ghz max turbo boost and would also make me crash and stutter so much too but having it at 1600x900 & 16:9 widescreen medium settings makes my cpu run at 60/70%, runs alot smoother n less stutters and havent crashed since

[@jzderf]

OMG toggling Perpsective Correction is a gamechanger. why did Valve decide to default that to Yes!?! Thank you!

[@deviantstudio]

it's so complicated. i just want to play a game with friends

[@nlp5120]

Can you make a update version?

[@gman_4815]

4:50 I played 360p with performance fsr. I wasn't able to see fella on goose from pit wout scope.

[@amirarsalanrajabi-fn8gy]

thanks

[@azalea_k]

"+exec autoexec" is one of those settings that drives me insane, like "-freq 144 -refresh 144" when WINDOWS AND GPU IS BLOODY WELL SET TO 144 ALREADY. 👿redundant redundancy is redundant.

[@drikiwow-8383]

1600 dpi have less input lagg than 400 dpi, i was playing with 400 dpi 2.2 sens now 1600 dpi with 0.5 sens.

[@Danklovicz]

did this man just open his video by saying that 1.6 sucks?!

[@goober5795]

Is there any reason for the setting “Override Scaling mode set by game and programs?” I notice a lot pros use it yet it doesn’t seem needed for stretched res, so what’s the point of it? Is there a reduction in input latency with it?

[@apiix9132]

no idea how no one came up with this idea ty ik its for views but cool idea!!!!

[@bewla]

yay a new voodeo

[@robbinkoot2154]

This is just focused on fps, but some of these ingame settings also increase your latency.

[@TheRealScurred]

good vid, had to watch another video for the autoexec because this one (the text) didnt work.

[@RaihanYagami]

Thank you this video very useful

[@philx10]

I believe you’ve made an error at 11:53. When you change that “setting.csm_viewmodel_shadows” to 1. I think you mean the “setting.lb_enable_shadow_casting" to 1 instead to get working player shadows.

[@w4rr0ck_svcks]

Think you’re right. Tried it with his version and it didn’t work. Gonna try yours

[@vooCSGO]

yeah you're right. for whatever reason this viewmodel shadows setting actually does turn shadows back on, but i'm not sure on the impact it could have on FPS so definitely better to use the other setting. I've noted it in the pinned comment. Thanks for sharing, I didn't realize I messed this up XD

[@tykers.]

wake up babe new voo video dropped

[@indigo5577]

Thank you based Voo

[@Sr7Sr7Sr7]

Another problem with follow crosshair is it only accounts for the recoil pattern of the gun, not the inaccuracy from moving while shooting, so it can give false confidence when someone sprays and moves.

[@TobiasHeinemann-l6f]

not rlly a problem tho is it? if u are moving with an ak u wont rlly hit regardless but with an mp u know where the shots are most likely going to go so follow recoil is still useful

[@neybar6435]

These are not videos. These are courses!!! 😍

[@MyctiK]

heard that Niko is actually slowly increasing his sens

[@scpfoundati0n962]

Вау! 7% это много! Спасибо за связку 👍

[@michaelmckay]

Yeah my sense was at 2.5 800DPI lol, I will try the lower sense.

[@OfficialAlexUK]

mans trying do a ferrari deagle peak 24/7 out here

[@John-sp9if]

Try 800 dpi 1.5, which is 1200 edpi, good for consistent aim and fast movement too.

[@Gamantasids]

I'm using 1600dpi x 4.94 is this bad?

[@michaelmckay]

OK I tried it, my shoulder is sore now lol. I was just using wrist mostly before this. @@John-sp9if

[@normiukkeli3739]

@@Gamantasids yes lol

[@wadurito]

Voo, the autoexec runs without including it in your launch options. Let the world know!

[@M0n4rc]

was hoping CS2 would have a better settings tab compared to original CS but I guess that would require valve to do things. like why cant I have a second slot to duplicate button inputs? I have jump on spacebar and scrollwheel in most other games

[@JishJosh]

hahahahaha dream on 1.6 is goated

[@Vogurt]

thank mr voo

[@fistofthenorthstar3155]

I hate that the same action can't be bound to two separate keys. I used to play with "Jump" on space, but also on the mouse "scroll down", and "crouch" on CL and "scroll up". Now I can choose only one. And PLUS I can set a weapon in my left hand!!!!

[@drikiwow-8383]

try disable cpu 0, and test fps benchmark 😊

[@JarexJRX]

idk when cs2 was firs released my laptop handled it well for 4 months nicly but i took a break because of exams i came after two months its really laggy and my fps drops very low from 60 to 30 or 1 is there a solution?

[@adisendo6069]

I binded toggle follow recoil, and i especially use it on pistols, bcs there u cannot learn the spray pattern

[@m0st-]

i stopped the video when u said that 1.6 sucks. the father of cs. the cs for men. the cs that needs actual skills.

[@shockat5070]

10:01 what lol, i use HE:4 smoke: mouse5 flash: mouse4 molotov: T (graffity is h) bomb: 5 while i also have my F key unbound and radar toggle is under Q

[@LummyTum]

I've heard texture filtering mode lags more in water on higher setting, haven't tested it though.

[@CarlitoJr408]

For the past 3 months, ever since they"updated" the smokes... I've been getting stutters. I have tried 7 "fixes" I've read about online... None of them help. I have a great PC and never have had any problems before that smoke update... I'm losing hope.

[@swagmoneybuge]

8:19 This is completely true, I used to play on 1.75 sense and 2000DPI, changed to 1.15/800 and started wrist aiming instead of arm aiming and noticed I could micro-adjust and make more accurate shots.

[@psychoticskittle7805]

with a sense that high you would have to be wrist aiming rather than arm aiming

[@bllopawah]

does resolution effect audio settings? like perspective correction and stuff?

[@JasonMendoza-hd3ce]

combining fidelityfx with an already non-native resolution is the dumbest thing you can do. the whole entire point of fidelityfx is that it takes a lower resolution and maps it onto your screen's pixels in a smart way that looks way better than just using the lower resolution itself. When you use 960p on a 1080p monitor the 960 pixels don't fit onto your real 1080 pixels, so your gpu or monitor scales them and blurs between them for you in a "dumb"/simple way, however if you leave the game at 1080p and enable fsr ultra quality it renders 900 pixels then maps those onto the 1080 screen pixels in a much smarter way that looks way better than 960p by itself without fsr. Running lower than native is just old wive's tales, high resolution is better in every case and 1080p monitors are garbage looking to anyone with eyes. pros would literally play better if they allowed themselves to use 1440p and 4k, but again they believe in fairy tales over physical reality.

[@ColonCrusher]

i checked out after you said 1.6 sucks.

[@DiceNRG]

Would you recommend Gsync on or off with these settings?

[@Zoddom]

Voo, you seem to completely misunderstand what audio perspective correction does. If you turn it off, the game will take the edges of your FOV as your Left and Right speakers. EVERYTHING outside your FOV will sound either completely left or completely right of you. Please leave this on default everyone. (might be more obvious with 100% isolation, which Id also recommend for the best 360 stereofield).

[@tykers.]

Does it really matter what it does if in testing it's harder to tell where people are?

[@Zoddom]

@@tykers. Yes, the testing is wrong.

[@Vipppala]

everyone in the pro scene got it wrong then kek

[@nWo_remiix]

thanks for the video shocked there is no jokes in here like the last video with valorant, or baitF for example lolo

[@HBZ]

Jump throw binds are now illegal again because of the keyboard manufacturers

[@Philipp-pg5sf]

1:44 21560x1440p is crazy

[@kerbal_lE]

Thats why u keep on friendly fire reticle warning !!!

[@wilhelm391]

nice video

[@TheMidnightTerrors]

I seem to get more fps with boost player contrast on. You said it cost more fps but you showed stats with higher fps with the option on.

[@IntrestingAiAi]

nice you fucked up my pc

[@keisariberti]

L take to have a separate w jumpthrow, just press w and jumpthrow at the same time, not that hard

[@mizofps]

best of both worlds: 16:9 on an ultrawide monitor

[@mcjibbo6100]

Remember when Valve said the game is getting more accesible. Now jumpthrow binds are sort of weird to do. Movement needs some massive changes in the console and the console in general does show nothing. It's just empty. No info about anything. The whole viewmodel thing is completely unaccesable. The whole config thing is for someone with not that much knowledge so much effort for so little changes. Half of CSGo Settings are missing

[@bobbyross7700]

So if I'm using 1000 dpi what should my game sens be at?

[@jipdarek]

set a higher DPI will reduce the input lag of your mouse sensor (go check videos on YT about that subject and you will find out). so if for example your main dpi was let say 400 and your sensitivity in game 2 so you have an EDPI (effective dot per inch) of 800. 400 × 2 = 800 ( dpi × sensitivity in game = EDPI) so now in order to find the right sensitivity that matches your previous EDPI just do some ez math: 1000 × ? = 800 ? = 800 ÷ 1000 ? = 0.8 so now, your sensitivity is 0.8 and voilà. you just need to know the formula and keep in mind that the most important thing is the EDPI not the dpi.

[@vooCSGO]

edpi is just dpi*in game sens. so 1000 edpi would be 1000x1. 1000 edpi is pretty reasonable nothing wrong with it

[@patrikmedia]

why mute MVP music when you already have it set to 0%? lol

[@Nixann_]

my sens is 400dpi and 1.8 in game its pretty solid

[@Broski7788]

my game is much smoother with V-sync, why should I turn it off?