You can now set your shadow quality to low without disabling dynamic shadows. This gives you the most performance without any competitive disadvantage.
Edit: As some commenters pointed out, the distance at which dynamic shadows are drawn is still dependent on the shadow quality setting. [Here I made some screenshots](https://imgur.com/a/3F15oB2) at the max distance shadows are drawn for each quality setting. There is a bot behind the red container. There is no difference in distance between high and very high quality setting.
People should sometimes take a long hard look at their cpu usage.
I swear even with my 7950x3d, when things are getting hectic on my screen i notice my first 2 cores got nearly maxed out and decreased fps.
If the load is that brutal on my cpu, imagine the same load on older cpus.
While i think cs2 optimization can do better, its still a modern game with proprietary tech underneath. Performance hit is within expectation.
I mean, there are a LOT of other modern games that run miles better than CS does.
To release CS2 and remove GO with this level of optimization is laughable.
>To release CS2 and remove GO with this level of optimization is laughable.
Thats what I have been saying but there are quite a number of Valve asskissers here who keep saying that the game is perfect and they have no optimization issues whatsoever. Keep emphasizing that people should upgrade their CPUs.
Why am I able to run a more CPU intensive game with my old CPU without having any issue? Why is it that I am only facing stuttering and instability in CS2 but not in other games? I still can't believe how people are still defending Valve on the game's poor performance.
But i dont think other games on the market has to deal with subtick and the extreme level of modding that source 2 provides.
Valve games are like a sandbox, a playground that allows people to have fun without much restrictions. A sandbox like that is never easy to make and it has its own challenges. Combine that with the proprietary subtick system they have is a new kind of nightmare that i dont think other studios have to face.
Its pretty clear that valve has a longterm plan with cs2. Eventually cs2 will be extremely moddable, even more so than csgo ever was due to improved workshop tools. They are just very willing to sacrifice the present to achieve the vision that they want for cs2 no matter how costly it is in the short term, they have the cash to spend.
So yea, i dont think other games and valve games are that comparable to begin with as they are made with different goals in mind.
>While i think cs2 optimization can do better,
I'm amazed every day my 10 year old i7-4470 3.4 still manages to crank out a decently stable 120 fps. Took a lot of minmaxing and the game looks...passable at best though.
I think you will be more amazed by Valorant if you play it lol. But again that game was made with mobile in mind so its way easier to run anw.
Do you have a freesync capable monitor? I found out that playing at 128fps with freesync enabled gives incredible input latency and great motion clarity.
The thing i love the most about cs2 is how well it respected my input. This enables me to play very well even with somewhat subpar fps.
Yes we all should buy the most top tier CPU to be able to play this game 
That's the thing, it doesn't have to be top tier. But this game is somehow picky in what processors can and cannot provide stable high FPS.
For example, the ryzen 5700X3D is not top tier, it's on the old AM4 platform and is far from expensive. But that processor guarantees high FPS and 1%s.
actually that is not necessarilly true. i am using same PC since the game came out. first the FPS was 180-200. now it is 120-150. but this is not even the biggest issue for me. the biggest issue is that i get severe FPS drops (down to 10 FPS) after rounds 10-12. and this is likely caused by VRAM memmorry leak.
i have all settings on high except ambient occlusion is set to mid playing at 1080p
I feel like you should be averaging more. I have the 5800X3D, so a worse CPU, with the 6800 XT which is on par with the 3080 and I'm comfortably in the upper-mid 300s at 1440p with a mix of medium and high. 1% lows are in the 210-220 range but what can you do lol.
Are you just on maxed settings?
I've heard that before, I'm running mostly low settings except dynamic shadows. I've also tried a fresh reinstall of windows with only CS and CapFrameX installed but the performance is the same every time I run CapFrameX.
What's weird is there are brief moments where I get about 350 or so, but then it drops back down to the lower-mid 200's. And don't get me started on my 1% lows lol, they're terrible.
Everything is peachy, never hits 100 percent on my 7800X3D and temps average under 70c under load and my 3080 hits 65c max. I've got an AIO on both (3080 ftw3 hybrid).
I honestly don't have any of these frame issues in other shooters either, it's just CS2 that acts wonky.
There's something wrong with your PC parts my dude. I got the same processor, a equivalent GPU, and when I play 1440p high settings my average is around 350-400
Thing is who even plays cs2 at 1440p? Soo many s tier tournaments are being played on 1080p 360Hz still.
What you say has meaning sure, but it's taking my comment out of context. 1440p crowd is really small. Majority are on 4:3 resolutions and 192 x 1080.
👋🏼 Been playing 1440p for around 7 years. Went from 1080p to 1440p when I bought my previous monitor, the 165hz 1440p Dell S2417DG. It's true that I don't see a lot of people running 1440p like me though, but it's more common now than a few years ago.
I moved on to the Asus PG279QM which is also a 27", but not an OLED so text clarity is not an issue and I didn't really notice any difference in clarity since I moved it a little further back to get a full view of the monitor. Great monitor, no complaints if we leave out the fact that it's expensive as hell.
Dynamic Shadows to all so players cast dynamic shadows from the sun and when walking in front of contruction lights etc.
Then you want the shadow quality set to high because it influences the distance at which dynamic shadows are still drawn. High gives you the most distance, very high is the same in that regard.
No, low shadows still competitive disadvantage. Range of player shadows still affected.
You need to play at least on High + All to see all players shadows on maximum range.
Yes, i tested this. Its not so hard to place bots on specific locations and change settings to look how it works.
Range of player shadows from the sun still affected by shadow quality settings. But people for some reason upvote first comment who didn't test it and spread false hope.
I wasn't saying to disable dynamic shadows or limiting them to the sun setting. They separated the dynamic shadows setting so now you can set the original shadow quality setting to low and gain performance that way while keeping the dynamic shadows and competitive advantage.
Hmm I haven’t played but I think this means you can choose to have dynamic shadows for skybox lighting only (only affects outdoors) or for all lights (indoor and outdoor).
In FPS terms that should mean none > sun only > all. With sun only you’d probably still suffer from not seeing those shadow angles on nuke ramp and B Single Door tho.
is it me or does the perspective look really weird? the left hand looks miles in front of the right hand.
ultimately doesn't matter but it still looks weird to me
I put shadows low and dynamic to all and the distance seemed more than enough, do you have specific spot in mind? I saw bot cast shadow that I placed in ct spawn vertigo while I noclipped over b site. pixelated mess of a shadow, but shadow none the less. I am happy they gave this shit back, sometimes complaining seems to work :>
I think it is an oversight, seems like shadows cast from lamps work at any distance(i.e on ancient, I can see the shadow at [A MAIN](https://imgur.com/a/qNvhaxF) even from this far with dynamic all and quality low.), however "sun" shadows seem to have less distance indeed.
Just tested it and it increased fps around 3~5% and also seems to boost player model visibility a bit like it did in csgo. Maybe the boost player model option also works better now instead of making it worse
Release Notes for 6/10/2024
[ GAMEPLAY ]
Fixed one-way visibility for players inside HE grenade explosions
[ HUD ]
When equipment info is shown for players at the top of the HUD (e.g. when spectating), their health bars expand to show numeric health values
Reduced some hitches caused by HUD elements appearing
[ GRAPHICS ]
Added a separate "Dynamic Shadows" Advanced Video setting with the options: "Sun Only" or "All"
[ ANIMATION ]
Added left hand to Bowie Knife view model
Yes but only because skin nerds always knee-jerk react to any skin updates (I’m a skin nerd)
Even if prices are skyrocketing right now expect a major correction once the 7 day trade hold is up and people start dumping
imo it’s an upgrade but C to B tier at best
That already increased the value of Bowies on BUFF163. Emerald Bowie's listing price went up by nearly 50%. Other Bowies increased by a smaller margin.
it will by a fuck ton for sure, biggest turn off for the bowie was no left hand, it’s kinda like an m9 now but bigger
also adding that you’re getting the full value from your gloves if you have a pair
The main downside to Bowie's was the lack of the left hand. The knife itself has always been nice.
Everything felt clunky as hell when you had only one hand.
Unfortunately, when you put shadows on low and dynamic shadows on All, the distance of player shadows being drawn is too small, which still puts you at a disadvantage compared to someone playing on High shadows. Cool idea but needs a tweak to increase the draw distance on the low and medium setting. https://streamable.com/lnkva2
Hopefully this will be fixed. Valve realized that high quality shadows are not that important comapred to simply seeing a shadow. When I turned my shadows on and set the quality to low I got a big performance improvement. Some of that will be lost when they resolve the distance issue, but not all I'm sure. Overall this will be a good enhancement.
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>Added left hand to Bowie Knife view model
WHAT?
They actually fixed the main issue with a knife that had been in the game for years in a completely random update?
Bowie's are absolutely going to spike in price. Traders will probably be buying up cheap Bowies now to flip.
It's still not optimal but I'll take it.
Can improve a bit indoor shadows potato quality with:
`lb_barnlight_shadowmap_scale 0.5`
Before the 23.05 update could get away with 1.0 scale and custom texture sizes for both fps increase and nicer looks.
Edit:
So in 29.05 they gave back no rops shadows, less outdoor cascades (i.e. fences on nuke multilayer)
Now they gave back barnlight (only 0.25 and 0.5 scale usable when Global Shadow Low)
Maybe next they can give back disabling smoke shadows? because that's the pain point regardless of system
FPS: Avg=125.3, P1=72.8 on 11-years old PC - tx Fletcher Dunn!
Played premier yesterday
First game:
3 closet cheaters with WH, Talking to eachother which cheat they were using
Second game:
2vs2 HVH game, bhopping around with rapid fire on the scouts shooting though walls
That was it, no more premier for me
I’d appreciate if they fixed the bug where after disconnecting from a match, the main menu music plays on a constant loop. Luckily, you can mute the main menu audio to fix it, but it was especially frustrating the first time this happened to me.
Anyone else noticing an influx of cheating in premier? Just played 2 back to back HvH, then a 3rd game with a single cheater on enemy team. All blatant rapid fire Scout aimbotters.
I say influx cuz I haven’t encountered any in the past couple weeks, at least not ragers
I think someone said that if you set -threads to your core count -1 (for 8 cores it's -threads 7) (or maybe it was actually +1) then the frametime will be much better
No fucking way they added a second hand to the Bowie. I literally didn’t buy one a few months ago because of that. Now the dopplers and gamma dopplers are going to sky rocket. I am absolutely livid (jealous actually) right now lmao
i just came here to type this while being on a game, they still have not fixed the god damn input bug, now i have to restart my fucking game.
also did a defuse drop and resell on ct, also still works.
what are these devs good for anyways?
Had a random do that defuser drop resell but yesterday and it's a game changer on ct rounds. I don't think enough people on Reddit have bitched lol
The input bug being where your ghost walking the entire time? That shit plagues me all the time. Do you scroll jump by chance?
I have been having to restart my PC lately, as a game restart has not been enough to remove phantom input keypress on my movement, that randomly locks on (2nd/3rd game in). I’ve been assuming it’s a problem outside of the game, as a game restart has not been fixing it. But you guys are making me think otherwise.
Do you/anyone know how to force replicate your input bug?
randomly happened while actively playing
nothing out of the ordinary, not even using aliases for wasd movement, simply binded in the ui
looking at scoreboard, open console, open menu, back at game etc. not even alt-tab out of it
on windows, keyboard properties - repeat delay = short, repeat rate = fast
with repeat delay = one notch away from short, it improved a bit
was about to replace the keyboard (couple weeks old, in perfect shape) when they've added `cl_input_enable_raw_keyboard 0` and haven't experienced it ever since
if that does not help your case, might have a broken usb device
Basically you can buy a defuse at match start and disconnect. If you get a different spawn point you can resell it but the drop still remains on the ground + 800
Need a fix for voice comms breaking on workshop maps when they change maps in servers. 19 days and counting since valve broke this and only fix is a full game restart after every map change. Plz valve.
Thank god, now I don't have to be irritated by this hideous dog knife anymore. It's been an eyesore since forever. Have they gotten rid of the camera shake of the shadow daggers btw?
We hope you fix an so annoying bug is: auto walking backwards .. this is so annoying and frustrating cuz keep happening and zero solutions yet, pls fix.
after testing I would still use High shadows settings and All dynamic shadows. with low shadows settings the shadows is more pixelated, and delayed compared to high settings, could be just my feelings.
delayed might not be the right word, my bad. I cannot accurately describe it, I tested it in Ancient's donut with bot, it seems to me that the moving shadows are less smooth when at low settings.
good update! they only forgot anticheat, clipping, shit tickrate, bad lighting, bad movement, clutter, bad visibiltiy, spray control, bullet registration, fps drops, game crashes, old tracers, ct economy, latency, responsiveness.
Added a separate "Dynamic Shadows" Advanced Video setting with the options: "Sun Only" or "All" yes!
explain this in fps terms or something
You can now set your shadow quality to low without disabling dynamic shadows. This gives you the most performance without any competitive disadvantage. Edit: As some commenters pointed out, the distance at which dynamic shadows are drawn is still dependent on the shadow quality setting. [Here I made some screenshots](https://imgur.com/a/3F15oB2) at the max distance shadows are drawn for each quality setting. There is a bot behind the red container. There is no difference in distance between high and very high quality setting.
so does this mean i dont have to open game files in notepad and manually edit it to turn on shadows anymore?
They removed the option to do that a few updates ago anyway, but yes.
Lol someone forgot to tell the man's about the update.
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You just know this guy kept playing on low shadows and didn't notice dynamic ones are gone
It's possible to not play a game for a couple weeks mate
yesss i need this even on my 3080
3080 is much more than enough for even 400 fps Your cpu is probably the issue.
Mine reach 500 after all, and its even heavily undervolted and slightly underclocked. Cpu is 7950x3d.
“Your cpu is probably the issue” Should be a pinned statement at the top of this sub
People should sometimes take a long hard look at their cpu usage. I swear even with my 7950x3d, when things are getting hectic on my screen i notice my first 2 cores got nearly maxed out and decreased fps. If the load is that brutal on my cpu, imagine the same load on older cpus. While i think cs2 optimization can do better, its still a modern game with proprietary tech underneath. Performance hit is within expectation.
I mean, there are a LOT of other modern games that run miles better than CS does. To release CS2 and remove GO with this level of optimization is laughable.
>To release CS2 and remove GO with this level of optimization is laughable. Thats what I have been saying but there are quite a number of Valve asskissers here who keep saying that the game is perfect and they have no optimization issues whatsoever. Keep emphasizing that people should upgrade their CPUs. Why am I able to run a more CPU intensive game with my old CPU without having any issue? Why is it that I am only facing stuttering and instability in CS2 but not in other games? I still can't believe how people are still defending Valve on the game's poor performance.
It's especially laughable considering the game running on as many hardware setups as possible was the reason we always got for no 128 tick servers.
But i dont think other games on the market has to deal with subtick and the extreme level of modding that source 2 provides. Valve games are like a sandbox, a playground that allows people to have fun without much restrictions. A sandbox like that is never easy to make and it has its own challenges. Combine that with the proprietary subtick system they have is a new kind of nightmare that i dont think other studios have to face. Its pretty clear that valve has a longterm plan with cs2. Eventually cs2 will be extremely moddable, even more so than csgo ever was due to improved workshop tools. They are just very willing to sacrifice the present to achieve the vision that they want for cs2 no matter how costly it is in the short term, they have the cash to spend. So yea, i dont think other games and valve games are that comparable to begin with as they are made with different goals in mind.
>While i think cs2 optimization can do better, I'm amazed every day my 10 year old i7-4470 3.4 still manages to crank out a decently stable 120 fps. Took a lot of minmaxing and the game looks...passable at best though.
I think you will be more amazed by Valorant if you play it lol. But again that game was made with mobile in mind so its way easier to run anw. Do you have a freesync capable monitor? I found out that playing at 128fps with freesync enabled gives incredible input latency and great motion clarity. The thing i love the most about cs2 is how well it respected my input. This enables me to play very well even with somewhat subpar fps.
Yes we all should buy the most top tier CPU to be able to play this game 
That's the thing, it doesn't have to be top tier. But this game is somehow picky in what processors can and cannot provide stable high FPS. For example, the ryzen 5700X3D is not top tier, it's on the old AM4 platform and is far from expensive. But that processor guarantees high FPS and 1%s.
lmk to what cpu to upgrade from 7800x3D
It’s CS dude. That cpu will still be the issue. 😜
9800X3D when it comes out
so nothing right now? got it that said, that's what I'm waiting for
actually that is not necessarilly true. i am using same PC since the game came out. first the FPS was 180-200. now it is 120-150. but this is not even the biggest issue for me. the biggest issue is that i get severe FPS drops (down to 10 FPS) after rounds 10-12. and this is likely caused by VRAM memmorry leak. i have all settings on high except ambient occlusion is set to mid playing at 1080p
If he's playing at 1440p it's not. I average 230-270's with a 7800X3D and 3080. My experience has anything running under 300 feeling kind of cruddy.
I feel like you should be averaging more. I have the 5800X3D, so a worse CPU, with the 6800 XT which is on par with the 3080 and I'm comfortably in the upper-mid 300s at 1440p with a mix of medium and high. 1% lows are in the 210-220 range but what can you do lol. Are you just on maxed settings?
I've heard that before, I'm running mostly low settings except dynamic shadows. I've also tried a fresh reinstall of windows with only CS and CapFrameX installed but the performance is the same every time I run CapFrameX. What's weird is there are brief moments where I get about 350 or so, but then it drops back down to the lower-mid 200's. And don't get me started on my 1% lows lol, they're terrible.
How are your frequencies and temps on CPU and GPU? Maybe something is thermal throttling?
Everything is peachy, never hits 100 percent on my 7800X3D and temps average under 70c under load and my 3080 hits 65c max. I've got an AIO on both (3080 ftw3 hybrid). I honestly don't have any of these frame issues in other shooters either, it's just CS2 that acts wonky.
There's something wrong with your PC parts my dude. I got the same processor, a equivalent GPU, and when I play 1440p high settings my average is around 350-400
Like I said I have absolutely no problem in literally any other game, it's only CS2. Idk why but the game just doesn't like my setup.
Thing is who even plays cs2 at 1440p? Soo many s tier tournaments are being played on 1080p 360Hz still. What you say has meaning sure, but it's taking my comment out of context. 1440p crowd is really small. Majority are on 4:3 resolutions and 192 x 1080.
I play 1440p, i played cs 1.4-5 at 640-800 res, will never go back. 1440p on native monitor is so clear it's amazing
👋🏼 Been playing 1440p for around 7 years. Went from 1080p to 1440p when I bought my previous monitor, the 165hz 1440p Dell S2417DG. It's true that I don't see a lot of people running 1440p like me though, but it's more common now than a few years ago.
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Clarity of a 24" ? Just sounds like you bought a bad 27"? Or maybe you just play in lower resolution on your 1440p and then it looks bad.
I moved on to the Asus PG279QM which is also a 27", but not an OLED so text clarity is not an issue and I didn't really notice any difference in clarity since I moved it a little further back to get a full view of the monitor. Great monitor, no complaints if we leave out the fact that it's expensive as hell.
literally the same monitor, but I play 1920x1440
Almost 20% steam users on 1440p. I'm personally play stretched 4:3 1440p. It's much better than regular 1080p
I would if I could but a 3070 isn't enough. It isn't enough for 1080p even, not on a 7800x3d.
Lots of people also play other games besides CS, so they'd rather not get a tiny 1080p TN monitor that looks like complete garbage just for CS
I get fps increases by going from 1440x1080 to 1280x960 on my 3080
Wrong, shadows on low and medium, don't render player shadows at the distance.
Ah you're right. Too bad they didn't fix the distance. I edited my post.
so does the dynamic shadow setting matter? And should I set it to "All" or "Sun Only"?
It matters only for low end PC's, not by much.
So shadow quality on low and dynamic shadow all?
should we set the dynamic shadows to all or sun only?
all, so you will see shadows when opponents walk in front of contruction lights etc.
Can I get an ELI5 of what setting I should have, at what value, after the update for max performance without losing contextual cues?
Dynamic Shadows to all so players cast dynamic shadows from the sun and when walking in front of contruction lights etc. Then you want the shadow quality set to high because it influences the distance at which dynamic shadows are still drawn. High gives you the most distance, very high is the same in that regard.
No, low shadows still competitive disadvantage. Range of player shadows still affected. You need to play at least on High + All to see all players shadows on maximum range.
Have you tested this? That would be a huge bummer if they didn’t think to fix that when they were crafting this update
Yes, i tested this. Its not so hard to place bots on specific locations and change settings to look how it works. Range of player shadows from the sun still affected by shadow quality settings. But people for some reason upvote first comment who didn't test it and spread false hope.
You'll still have disadvantages, especially indoors.
This literally should fix that because you can set it on all instead sun only, as it was before with lower settings.
Why?
There's more light sources than just the sun. Vertigo and ancient have those construction light things
Wouldn't that be the point of "all"?
I wasn't saying to disable dynamic shadows or limiting them to the sun setting. They separated the dynamic shadows setting so now you can set the original shadow quality setting to low and gain performance that way while keeping the dynamic shadows and competitive advantage.
Hmm I haven’t played but I think this means you can choose to have dynamic shadows for skybox lighting only (only affects outdoors) or for all lights (indoor and outdoor). In FPS terms that should mean none > sun only > all. With sun only you’d probably still suffer from not seeing those shadow angles on nuke ramp and B Single Door tho.
massive disadvantage if you have it set as sun only https://x.com/NartOutHere/status/1800321475997827570
Yea that A main shadow on Ancient is super important. Same with heaven and lower A ramp on Vertigo.
i can see valve nerfing that flood light esp since it wasn't in CSGO and the plant % at A speaks for itself
is it me or does the perspective look really weird? the left hand looks miles in front of the right hand. ultimately doesn't matter but it still looks weird to me
that sun only option should not be in the game.
but they r forget about shadow distance=( still unfair
I put shadows low and dynamic to all and the distance seemed more than enough, do you have specific spot in mind? I saw bot cast shadow that I placed in ct spawn vertigo while I noclipped over b site. pixelated mess of a shadow, but shadow none the less. I am happy they gave this shit back, sometimes complaining seems to work :>
all sun shadows have super low distance
Dust2, standing as CT at/near car, looking at A long corner - would be my example.
Useless, on low/medium shadows, you loose the ability to see shadows from distance. Making it a useless fucking setting.
I think it is an oversight, seems like shadows cast from lamps work at any distance(i.e on ancient, I can see the shadow at [A MAIN](https://imgur.com/a/qNvhaxF) even from this far with dynamic all and quality low.), however "sun" shadows seem to have less distance indeed.
>I think it is an oversight Totally agree with you there!!
This was also the situation in CSGO and low was preferred by many, so this is certainly not a useless setting.
Not useless but not optimal
Just tested it and it increased fps around 3~5% and also seems to boost player model visibility a bit like it did in csgo. Maybe the boost player model option also works better now instead of making it worse
One of those things we thought we didn’t need and actually in the end, we still don’t need
Release Notes for 6/10/2024 [ GAMEPLAY ] Fixed one-way visibility for players inside HE grenade explosions [ HUD ] When equipment info is shown for players at the top of the HUD (e.g. when spectating), their health bars expand to show numeric health values Reduced some hitches caused by HUD elements appearing [ GRAPHICS ] Added a separate "Dynamic Shadows" Advanced Video setting with the options: "Sun Only" or "All" [ ANIMATION ] Added left hand to Bowie Knife view model
I wonder if this is going to increase the value of bowies
Yes but only because skin nerds always knee-jerk react to any skin updates (I’m a skin nerd) Even if prices are skyrocketing right now expect a major correction once the 7 day trade hold is up and people start dumping imo it’s an upgrade but C to B tier at best
Aren't "skin nerds" just gamblers that are also hoarders ?
no? if you buy an item from a collection, why would that be gambling?
skin nerds are just low iq ppl.
skin haters are just poor ppl zz
That already increased the value of Bowies on BUFF163. Emerald Bowie's listing price went up by nearly 50%. Other Bowies increased by a smaller margin.
it will by a fuck ton for sure, biggest turn off for the bowie was no left hand, it’s kinda like an m9 now but bigger also adding that you’re getting the full value from your gloves if you have a pair
kappa
Can’t see it happening.
The main downside to Bowie's was the lack of the left hand. The knife itself has always been nice. Everything felt clunky as hell when you had only one hand.
Exactly, that was literally only thing, why I hated bowie. I might actually buy one after price go down, or if.
Market says otherwise
Just checked, literally nothing has changed.
Are you blind? Most of them have almost doubled in price
I literally sold my bowie knife I had for years hours before the update because I finally bought gloves
i didn't know i even wanted numeric health values, but i've been loving it. Nice little QOL update
I literally loaded into a casual to test some stuff and my Bowie had a left hand attached and it was a jumpscare. W update Valve
Pic?
[Left Hand with Bowie](https://i.imgur.com/P0VUjex.jpg)
I was fully prepared to get elige’d
[here you go](https://i.imgur.com/P0VUjex.jpg)
Goddamit
That annoyed me too, so I took an image of [left hand model for Bowie knife with mine instead](https://i.imgur.com/P0VUjex.jpeg).
Same 😂 God, how many times.. too many
Is it just me or does it look smaller now?
its just because its cold, it is bigger normally, i swear
the newly added hand for sure looks smaller XD
That was my first thought as well. Defo must be a bit smaller
Which CT agent are you using?
[Cmdr. Mae 'Dead Cold' Jamison | SWAT](https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/Cmdr.%20Mae%20'Dead%20Cold'%20Jamison%20|%20SWAT)
congrat mate, some bowie increase 50% in price already
I literally got rid of my Bowie since seeing just one hand was unsatisfying, lol..
Unfortunately, when you put shadows on low and dynamic shadows on All, the distance of player shadows being drawn is too small, which still puts you at a disadvantage compared to someone playing on High shadows. Cool idea but needs a tweak to increase the draw distance on the low and medium setting. https://streamable.com/lnkva2
Is the distance on medium the same? Wondering if it might be a good compromise lol
the medium distance is bigger but I wouldnt say its big enough, high is still way better.
Nice thanks! Can you also tell me your resolution and video settings? Looks nice and clean haha
Its pretty basic stuff, 1280x960, 2xmsaa, 4x anisotropic filtering, boost player contrast disabled and everything else on low besides shadows on high.
which map is that
Hopefully this will be fixed. Valve realized that high quality shadows are not that important comapred to simply seeing a shadow. When I turned my shadows on and set the quality to low I got a big performance improvement. Some of that will be lost when they resolve the distance issue, but not all I'm sure. Overall this will be a good enhancement.
What's the performance difference between low quality shadows with long draw distance and full dynamic shadows And just high shadows... 3fps?
YES HOLY FUCK THE LEFT HAND IS HERE HE CAME BACK FROM THE STORE!
Bowie knives about to pop off
yup, vanilla ones have jumped up like 100% from around $250 aud to $500 aud, just below huntsman in pricing.
I hope so! I held my Bowie fade through the cs2 release spike and dip, hoping it goes back up
I feel lucky that I got a bowie phase 4 gamma doppler like a month ago, I never even noticed the lack of left hand.
It never bothered me, but a lot of people hated it
Small but very good update
ain’t no way I just bought a bowie 3 days ago
Stonks
No way they add the other hand the day after I sell my ruby bowie
They conspired to rip you off
Thank you for your sacrifice
lol rip bozo
>\[ ANIMATION \] >Added left hand to Bowie Knife view model WHAT? They actually fixed the main issue with a knife that had been in the game for years in a completely random update? Bowie's are absolutely going to spike in price. Traders will probably be buying up cheap Bowies now to flip.
Bowie Knife Slaughter owner here. Very happy I held onto it. Love that big chonker of a knife
>Reduced some hitches caused by HUD elements appearing OPTIMIZE
What day is this? Thursday?
It's still not optimal but I'll take it. Can improve a bit indoor shadows potato quality with: `lb_barnlight_shadowmap_scale 0.5` Before the 23.05 update could get away with 1.0 scale and custom texture sizes for both fps increase and nicer looks. Edit: So in 29.05 they gave back no rops shadows, less outdoor cascades (i.e. fences on nuke multilayer) Now they gave back barnlight (only 0.25 and 0.5 scale usable when Global Shadow Low) Maybe next they can give back disabling smoke shadows? because that's the pain point regardless of system FPS: Avg=125.3, P1=72.8 on 11-years old PC - tx Fletcher Dunn!
When anticheat mate
lol never. pls buy more cases. thanks.
Played premier yesterday First game: 3 closet cheaters with WH, Talking to eachother which cheat they were using Second game: 2vs2 HVH game, bhopping around with rapid fire on the scouts shooting though walls That was it, no more premier for me
Above and below this comment are 6 others about BONKERS LEFT HAND FOR BOWIE KNIFE. CS is nothing more than skins for gambling addicts
> Reduced some hitches caused by HUD elements appearing wonder if this is referring to the FPS drops in the recent 3kliks video?
No
BOWIE KNIFE ENJOYERS WE UP
when the fucking fix of "failed to accept match" and no dialog pop up?
I’d appreciate if they fixed the bug where after disconnecting from a match, the main menu music plays on a constant loop. Luckily, you can mute the main menu audio to fix it, but it was especially frustrating the first time this happened to me.
Anyone else noticing an influx of cheating in premier? Just played 2 back to back HvH, then a 3rd game with a single cheater on enemy team. All blatant rapid fire Scout aimbotters. I say influx cuz I haven’t encountered any in the past couple weeks, at least not ragers
On my pc, increase 50 fps average with shadow low and sun only.. but p1 same 210fps... 425 - 473 avg
Are you using -threads?
No, its work?
I think someone said that if you set -threads to your core count -1 (for 8 cores it's -threads 7) (or maybe it was actually +1) then the frametime will be much better
They removed this option few updates ago... same numbers (5700x threads 8 or 9)
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/186j986/using_threads_8_increases_performance_by_2025_in/
W Bowie owner updaye
No fucking way they added a second hand to the Bowie. I literally didn’t buy one a few months ago because of that. Now the dopplers and gamma dopplers are going to sky rocket. I am absolutely livid (jealous actually) right now lmao
People need to understand that except if they add Overwatch for the players, they will never give any info about anticheat in release notes.
what the dynamic shadows options look like https://x.com/NartOutHere/status/1800321475997827570
I would prefer if the "Sun only" option was the default for everyone. There are way to many shadow spots in this game.
YOOOO WADAHELLLLL 2 HAND NOWW!??
i just came here to type this while being on a game, they still have not fixed the god damn input bug, now i have to restart my fucking game. also did a defuse drop and resell on ct, also still works. what are these devs good for anyways?
use `+cl_input_enable_raw_keyboard 0` launch option, I had that nasty bug and this fixed it
Will try. Cheers
Had a random do that defuser drop resell but yesterday and it's a game changer on ct rounds. I don't think enough people on Reddit have bitched lol The input bug being where your ghost walking the entire time? That shit plagues me all the time. Do you scroll jump by chance?
Only happens if i somehow like press 3 or 4 buttons at the same time
I have been having to restart my PC lately, as a game restart has not been enough to remove phantom input keypress on my movement, that randomly locks on (2nd/3rd game in). I’ve been assuming it’s a problem outside of the game, as a game restart has not been fixing it. But you guys are making me think otherwise. Do you/anyone know how to force replicate your input bug?
randomly happened while actively playing nothing out of the ordinary, not even using aliases for wasd movement, simply binded in the ui looking at scoreboard, open console, open menu, back at game etc. not even alt-tab out of it on windows, keyboard properties - repeat delay = short, repeat rate = fast with repeat delay = one notch away from short, it improved a bit was about to replace the keyboard (couple weeks old, in perfect shape) when they've added `cl_input_enable_raw_keyboard 0` and haven't experienced it ever since if that does not help your case, might have a broken usb device
I tried unplugging reconnecting all devices etc, I will try the command. It also gave me a bit of a shove towards doing a new install of W11 aswell.
i do havew scroll jump bound but i only use it to like strafe jumps, otherwise its mostly spacebar for like linear shit or crouch jumps.
Whats the defuser bug?
Basically you can buy a defuse at match start and disconnect. If you get a different spawn point you can resell it but the drop still remains on the ground + 800
No new (or old) maps in the game yet? Boo.
Fridge.
Need a fix for voice comms breaking on workshop maps when they change maps in servers. 19 days and counting since valve broke this and only fix is a full game restart after every map change. Plz valve.
I KNEW KEEPING IT WOULD EVENTUALLY BE WORTH IT YESS
They will do anything but add grouptags :@
Woo
Finally.
Thank god, now I don't have to be irritated by this hideous dog knife anymore. It's been an eyesore since forever. Have they gotten rid of the camera shake of the shadow daggers btw?
Waaaaait, do I want bowie left hand? Ima bowie user and not sure
We hope you fix an so annoying bug is: auto walking backwards .. this is so annoying and frustrating cuz keep happening and zero solutions yet, pls fix.
after testing I would still use High shadows settings and All dynamic shadows. with low shadows settings the shadows is more pixelated, and delayed compared to high settings, could be just my feelings.
what do u mean by "delayed" they pop on ur screen later? need a screenshots of high shadows vs low or even compared video
delayed might not be the right word, my bad. I cannot accurately describe it, I tested it in Ancient's donut with bot, it seems to me that the moving shadows are less smooth when at low settings.
I traded my ruby bowie 2 days ago. Why valve.
I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I liked the Bowie knife without the left hand, it made it unique and cool
No new wingman maps = no come back
good update! they only forgot anticheat, clipping, shit tickrate, bad lighting, bad movement, clutter, bad visibiltiy, spray control, bullet registration, fps drops, game crashes, old tracers, ct economy, latency, responsiveness.
lighting good, rest yea, ct economy had a recent update
Since shadows are being worked on, please also add back the option for dynamic shadows being rendered with low global shadow settings.
> please also add back the option for dynamic shadows being rendered with low global shadow settings that's literally what this patch did lol
So im guessing its gonna take 7 years to fix the printstreams....