¶ PC Optimization Guide
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¶ What is a PC optimization?
PC optimization is when you dial in specific windows and bios settings that are meant to help with ingame performance. Thus giving you better a ingame experience and more FPS. On this guide we will not be diving in any bios settings so we make it easier for people to execute.
This guide is considered a low to medium tier difficulty level and is designed for people to be able to follow easily, there are full PC optimizations that can be done but are a bit more technical and usually part of the paid optimization services. A full on PC optimization ensures you, that your system will run on the lowest system latency, best responsiveness and guarantees that your system is clean and stable, generally eliminating any stuttering or smoothness issues.
¶ Who made this guide?
This guide is created by FPSHeaven.com most people in the CS2 community will know of him as fREQUENCYCS as he is very well known. fREQUENCYCS has been optimizing many of the top Pro CS2 players PCs for years as well as thousands of other players in the community. This is an entry level optimization, for a full custom-to-your-pc optimization check out their website for pricing!
¶ Disclaimer
- Follow this guide at your own Risk. We do not provide support or help for this guide.
- Dont do this guide if you cant follow steps exactly.
- performance gains may be different
¶ Performance Gains
Tested PC:
- Specs:
- CPU: Intel i7-9750H
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060
- FPS
- Before: 197.32
- After: 258.62
- Nearly 27% FPS increase
¶ Step-By-Step Video Guide
¶ Create Restore Point
- Type “restore point” on the windows search bar
- Click
Create a restore point - Select your
Cdrive then clickConfigurein the bottom right - Select
Turn on system protectionand then slide the bar to 10GB then clickApplyandOK - Click
Createand set a name for the Restore point in the box, then clickCreate - Click
Okthen restart your PC
¶ Getting Started
Benchmark Before
- Benchmark your FPS before any changes so you can make a comparison
- Click here to jump to benchmark
Windows Updates
- Make sure to download all of the latest updates for your windows 10 or 11 machine
- Type
updatesinto your start menu and clickCheck for updatesin the menu - The updates could take a minute, please be patient for the installation to process
- Once the updates are downloaded and installed, you will be prompted to restart the PC
- Click the
Restart Nowbutton that will appear on the screen
¶ Cleaning
- Download and install Malwarebtyes (Free and very popular anti-malware solution)
- Click the
Scanbutton after installation is complete - The scan can take up to 30 minutes depending on the speed of your PC and the amount of files on your PC that need to be scanned
- Once complete you will either see you have no threats and you can move on, or you have
Threat Scan results - Click
Quarantineif you have items in yourThreat Scan results - Restart your PC
¶ Blocking Windows Updates
- Download Windows Update Blocker , this will stop your machine from overwriting some of the changes we make
- Drop the file into your C drive
- Tick the
Disable Updatesbox andProtect Services Settings(this will block traffic from the windows store, you can Enable Updates if you need to in the future)
¶ Custom Power Plan
- Either download our custom power plan from here (a file is also included we use later called CSGO.NIP) or use the built in
High Performanceplan in windows - If you choose to download our plan open, type
CMDinto your search bar - Paste in these two lines one at a time:
powercfg -import "C:\FREQUENCYCS_2023_UPDATED_POWER_PLAN.pow" 77777777-7777-7777-7777-777777777779"powercfg -SETACTIVE "77777777-7777-7777-7777-777777777779"
- Close CMD
- Find the custom power plan by typing
powercfg.cplinto your search bar - Open the
powercfg.cplby clicking on it - Open
CMDas an administator by typingCMDinto search bar, then right-click and selectRun as administrator - Paste in the following commands into Command Prompt again doing it one by one (ignore any errors, just go to the next command)
bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock- This makes the system use the platform clock for timekeeping instead of a different timer
bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes- This disables a feature that adjusts the timer frequency
bcdedit /set useplatformtick yes- This removes a setting related to using the platform clock for timekeeping
- Reboot your PC
¶ Install ISLC
- Download and install ISLC (ISLC cleans standby memory and forces the timer )
- Copy the settings you see in the image below
- Change the
free memory is lower thanto your desire- If you have 32GB of ram, set it to
30000mb - If you have 16GB of ram, set it to
15000mb - Follow the pattern above to match your amount of RAM
- If you have 32GB of ram, set it to
- Tick both boxes bottom left of ISLC
Start ISLC minimized and auto-Start monitoringLaunch ISLC on user logon. (TaskScheduler)
- Set the
Wanted timer resolutionto0.00and press start
¶ Windows Cleaning
- Open Run by typing
runinto your search bar - Paste in
C:\Windows\Tempand clickOK - Select all files in the folder by pressing
CTRL+Aon your keyboard after selecting a random file - Press your
Deletekey- Tick the
Do this for all current itemsbox and clickSkip - Some items may not delete, this is fine, move on
- Tick the
¶ Delete temp files
- Open Run again by typing
runinto your search bar - Paste
%temp%and clickOK - Select all the files in the folder by pressing
CTRL+Aon your keyboard after selecting a random file - Press your
Deletekey- Tick the
Do this for all current itemsbox and clickSkip - Some items may not delete, this is fine, move on
- Tick the
¶ Disk cleanup
- Open Run again by typing
Runinto your search bar - Paste
C:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.execlickOK - Select
Cdrive and pressOK - Tick every box and press
OKand then clickDelete Files
¶ Clean up system files
- Open Run again by typing
Runinto your search bar - Paste
C:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.exein and clickOK - Click
Clean up system files- Choose what you want to clean, most people do everything
- Click
OKthis process might take a bit longer, be patient
¶ Disabling Startup Processes
- Press
CTRL+SHIFT+ESCto open Task Manger - Select
Startuptab and disable all programs you dont need always running
¶ Fresh Clean GPU Drivers
¶ DDU Setup
- Download and install DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) ignore any warning popups
- Copy the setting selection below and then click
Close
¶ Clean Driver
- in the drop down on the right
Select your device typepickGPU - Choose if you have
NVIDIAorAMD - Then click
Clean and restart - You system will restart after a couple of minutes
¶ Driver Clean Install
- Download and install NVCLEANINSTALL (Lets you customize and install the Nvidia driver package)
- Open the program and select
Manually select a driver version - Select the latest driver and make sure it says
64 bit Desktop - Click
Nextand do not tick any options and then clickNextagain - Copy the settings you see below on the
Installation Tweaksscreen then clickNext - Click
Nextand thenInstalland wait for the installation to complete - If you have any issues with the latest driver, do the DDU process again and select the 2nd to latest driver
¶ NVIDIA Profile Inspector
- Download and extract NVIDIA Profile Inspector (software to tweak NVIDIA drivers) to a folder you can find
- Open
nvidiaProfileInspectorand click on the button the image blow is pointing at toImport Profiles(s) - Find and select the
CSGO.NIPfile we downloaded in the custom power plan step (this file has no relation to NIP the CS:GO org) - You will see
Profiles successfully importedpopup - Then click
Apply Changestop right - This profile has settings specific for CS:GO.
There arent as many tweaks available for AMD GPUs, go download the latest driver manually
¶ Windows Tweaks
- Download and install ProcessLasso (software to deeply control processes)
- If you have 4 cores or less skip this step about
CPU affinity - Open ProcessLasso
- Open CS:GO and then minimize your game by pressing
ALT+TAB - Find
csgo.exe[32]in your processes then right-click on it and navigateCPU Affinity → Always → Select CPU affinity - Open your task manager and look for
Logical ProcessorsandCores- If you number of
Coresis the same asLogical Processorscheck every CPU box on the CPU Affinity page exceptCPU 0 - If your number of
Coresis less than your number ofLogical Processorsthen clickDisable SMTorDisable Hyper-Threadingand then uncheckCPU 0andCPU 1
- If you number of
- Right-click on
csgo.exe[32]again, thenCPU Priority → Always → Highand then UncheckWindows dynamic thread priority boosts enabled - Reboot PC
¶ CS:GO Settings
- Close Steam and navigate to its directory, by default its on your
Cdrive, pasteC:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdatainto your search bar - In the userdata folder you will see a folder for every Steam account you have logged into
- Identify which one you want (if you have more than one folder) by clicking this Steam Trade link
- Look in the Trade URL box, after you see
partner=that number is the number you are looking for in your userdata folder - Open the folder that corresponds to your
partner=and drag your730folder to your desktop to backup your CS:GO settings - For the purpose of maximizing FPS we want to start fresh and delete the following folders if you have them:
730configinventorymsgcacheugcandugcmsgcache
- Launch Steam and then CS:GO
- Set your video settings to what is below for a good mixture of competitive FPS settings
- The smaller the resolution you play, generally the higher FPS you will get
- Set
Uber ShaderstoAuto
- Click
Applyand your done!
¶ Benchmark
- Make sure CS:GO is closed
- Subscribe to the FPSHeaven.com Benchmark Steam Workshop map
- Open CS:GO and launch the Workshop map
- Type
benchmarkin chat and let the benchmark complete - Your results will be printed in your console
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