There are certain Nvidia settings for CS:GO that greatly improve the gameplay experience by providing an FPS boost, increasing system performance, stabilizing in-game visibility, and other such factors. Being one of the most used graphic cards in the world, Nvidia driver settings have certain features using which CS:GO players can gain a bit of an extra push. While most of the players are aware of in-game settings like console commands and config settings, along with common system hacks like tweaks to the windows registry, not many are aware that CS:GO can also be tweaked directly through the ‘Nvidia Control Panel’.
So let’s take a look at how players can tweak certain Nvidia settings via the dedicated control panel, manually overriding some CS:GO global settings and utilizing the graphics card to its maximum potential without damaging the system.
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Nvidia has developed some of the most popular and powerful graphic cards in the world. The brand is famous among the gaming community, especially CS:GO which demands quite a good hardware setup to run the game smoothly. Allowing the players to deliver their best without any problems from the system.
But not everyone might be having a top-end Nvidia model. So, for all these players and others that might be looking to give their system some performance boost, check out the steps mentioned below which will positively enhance your Counter-Strike gaming experience.
Once the above steps are complete, users will be able to manually override CS:GO default settings. The optimal settings for drawing maximum power from your graphic card, while not taking things too far so as to damage your system are as follows,
Nvidia Setting | Status |
Image Sharpening | Sharpening Off, Scaling Disabled |
Ambient Occlusion | Performance |
Anisotropic Filtering | Application-Controlled |
Antialiasing | FXAA - Off |
Antialiasing | Gamma Correction - On |
Antialiasing Mode | Application-Controlled |
CUDA GPUs | All |
DSR Factors | Off |
Max Frame Rate | Off |
Multi-Frame Sampled AA | Off |
OpenGL Rendering GPU | Auto-select |
Power-Management Mode | Prefer Maximum Performance |
Preferred Refresh Rate | Highest Available |
Shader Cache | On |
Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample | On |
Texture Filtering - Quality | Performance |
Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization | On |
Threaded Optimization | Auto |
Triple Buffering | Off |
Vertical Sync | Off |
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There are a few settings that might be available in some of the more recent Nvidia graphic cards. In order to increase your FPS significantly enable the ‘Nvidia Reflex’ setting, which is the company’s own low-latency technology embedded within the Nvidia 20 and 30 series graphic cards.
This setting might be ‘Off’ by default. So users can go ahead and turn it ‘On’, which instantly results in a significant change. If you have a complete high-end system and think that it can handle the full throttle of the graphic card, then at your own risk the same setting can be turned to ‘Ultra’ as well.
Some other new settings like the ones mentioned below, if available within your ‘Nvidia Control Panel’ can be set as follows to increase the FPS even further,
There are some visibility issues with CS:GO and in most cases, the in-game settings are not enough to tackle the problem effectively. So, some Nvidia colour settings can be manually tampered with to attain optimum visibility results with CS:GO.
You are all set to tinker around with the display settings available, which will override the ones implemented by CS:GO. Here are the optimum display settings for CS:GO which are known to be the most effective,
Under ‘Choose how color is set’,
Under ‘Apply the following enhancements’,