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I think I am bottlenecking by one core

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Uğur Uyar

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I have an i5-10200H, GTX 1650 Ti, and 2x8GB RAM. While playing CS2, I was experiencing random stutters, and I noticed that enabling V-Sync significantly reduced most of them. I can achieve 200 FPS without any FPS limit, but when there is no limit, the CPU uses all its power and struggles to handle background drivers or basic Windows services properly. I tried assigning the drivers to other cores using the "Affinity tool," but the issue persisted when there was no FPS limit. Similarly, when I reset the driver affinities and disabled CPU0 for the game, I didn’t notice much difference; the stutters were still present.

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You might find that your CPU is throttling due to it reaching its thermal limit.

You need to solve that problem
 
You could lower your fps with RTSS.
 
The main thing is playing stable without fps limit actually. And Vsync is better for me at least. Much more stable.

AtiAmd said:
you are trolling? got better pictures to show...fake but still....better something than nothing ☺
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Haven't messed with a laptop in awhile. Any chance you have missed a setting that involves onboard graphics + 1650ti?
 
I dont think so. Because i even used every windows version with clean install, so its not about any settings or anything. Maybe just about windows idk.
 
Leaving vsync off causes frame instability, for such an old game leave it on, also address your room temperatures and cooling of your cpu.
 
But bannerlord and cs2 is not old game. My room temperatures around 22-26 degrees because it changes so much due to night and day time. Its hot here but this happening for 2.5 years. In winter degrees are so much lower and around 5-10 degrees.
 
Wouldn't a frame limit (in NVIDIA control panel) be better than vsync? Vsync adds input delay. If all you want is a consistent framerate, setting a framerate limit you can consistently achieve seems like the way to go.
 
Uğur Uyar said:
But bannerlord and cs2 is not old game. My room temperatures around 22-26 degrees because it changes so much due to night and day time. Its hot here but this happening for 2.5 years. In winter degrees are so much lower and around 5-10 degrees.
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Report the problems to the game devs, nvidia
 
Limiting fps is a good way to lower it but if you are playing CS2 you need to have lower frametimes. If it wasnt competitive game it was ok but it changes a lot of things when its competitive game.
eidairaman1 said:
Report the problems to the game devs, nvidia
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Sadly it happens in "almost" every game. I even got this shutter in CS 1.6. Specially bannerlord is well optimized game.

In first video it even shutters 2 times. When i die and when two guys attacking me.

 
Again, set a frame rate limit in NVIDIA control panel, not vsync. A frame limit doesn't create input delay in the way vsync does. Set a frame limit that you can consistently achieve, and then it should consistently operate there. You said you can hit 200 FPS. But stutters. So set it to 190 FPS. You are not going to notice a frame time difference of 190 vs 200. Or 170. Or whatever you need for it to stop stuttering.
 
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