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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.
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Tested PC:
Create a restore point
C
drive then click Configure
in the bottom rightTurn on system protection
and then slide the bar to 10GB then click Apply
and OK
Create
and set a name for the Restore point in the box, then click Create
Ok
then restart your PC
Benchmark Before
Windows Updates
updates
into your start menu and click Check for updates
in the menuRestart Now
button that will appear on the screen
Scan
button after installation is completeThreat Scan results
Quarantine
if you have items in your Threat Scan results
Disable Updates
box and Protect Services Settings
(this will block traffic from the windows store, you can Enable Updates if you need to in the future)
High Performance
plan in windowsCMD
into your search barpowercfg -import "C:\FREQUENCYCS_2023_UPDATED_POWER_PLAN.pow" 77777777-7777-7777-7777-777777777779"
powercfg -SETACTIVE "77777777-7777-7777-7777-777777777779"
powercfg.cpl
into your search barpowercfg.cpl
by clicking on itCMD
as an administator by typing CMD
into search bar, then right-click and select Run as administrator
bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock
bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes
bcdedit /set useplatformtick yes
free memory is lower than
to your desire30000mb
15000mb
Start ISLC minimized and auto-Start monitoring
Launch ISLC on user logon. (TaskScheduler)
Wanted timer resolution
to 0.00
and press start
run
into your search barC:\Windows\Temp
and click OK
CTRL+A
on your keyboard after selecting a random fileDelete
keyDo this for all current items
box and click Skip
run
into your search bar%temp%
and click OK
CTRL+A
on your keyboard after selecting a random fileDelete
keyDo this for all current items
box and click Skip
Run
into your search barC:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.exe
click OK
C
drive and press OK
OK
and then click Delete Files
Run
into your search barC:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.exe
in and click OK
Clean up system files
OK
this process might take a bit longer, be patient
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC
to open Task MangerStartup
tab and disable all programs you dont need always running
Close
Select your device type
pick GPU
NVIDIA
or AMD
Clean and restart
Manually select a driver version
64 bit Desktop
Next
and do not tick any options and then click Next
againInstallation Tweaks
screen then click Next
Next
and then Install
and wait for the installation to complete
nvidiaProfileInspector
and click on the button the image blow is pointing at to Import Profiles(s)
CSGO.NIP
file we downloaded in the custom power plan step (this file has no relation to NIP the CS:GO org)Profiles successfully imported
popupApply Changes
top right
There arent as many tweaks available for AMD GPUs, go download the latest driver manually
CPU affinity
ALT+TAB
csgo.exe[32]
in your processes then right-click on it and navigate CPU Affinity → Always → Select CPU affinity
Logical Processors
and Cores
Cores
is the same as Logical Processors
check every CPU box on the CPU Affinity page except CPU 0
Cores
is less than your number of Logical Processors
then click Disable SMT
or Disable Hyper-Threading
and then uncheck CPU 0
and CPU 1
csgo.exe[32]
again, then CPU Priority → Always → High
and then Uncheck Windows dynamic thread priority boosts enabled
C
drive, paste C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata
into your search barpartner=
that number is the number you are looking for in your userdata folderpartner=
and drag your 730
folder to your desktop to backup your CS:GO settings730
config
inventorymsgcache
ugc
and ugcmsgcache
Uber Shaders
to Auto
Apply
and your done!
benchmark
in chat and let the benchmark complete
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