Justcolor wrote

TaigaAisaka wrote

Justcolor wrote

TaigaAisaka wrote The thing with CSGO, as well as any game using the Source engine, is they rely much more on your CPU, over your GPU, however, that doesn't mean you can have a high-end CPU and a low-end GPU and expect great performance. While CSGO isn't that intensive on a PC, if your PC is having a huge FPS drop like that, on the lowest settings when looking at smoke, it's something you're going to have to deal with until you can upgrade your PC. Your PC may reach the required minimum to run the game, but that doesn't mean it'll run smoothly. Best bet, is when playing, to make sure you have as many background process closed out that you won't be needing at the time, as well as try playing on a lower resolution other than your default monitor resolution. In example, if you're trying to play CSGO on 1920x1080, try it on something like 1024x576 or lower/higher, depending on how you notice a difference in your FPS and are comfortable with both the FPS and the resolution. There's not too much you can do about FPS drops if you're already on lowest settings, until you can upgrade your PC, it's annoying, but sadly, it's something that you'll have to live with for now.

if I lower my monitor resolution do you think that will help my fps? I currently play on 1224x768 for my in game resolution and that gives me 50-80 fps but 30 in smoke, if I lower my resolution to 800x600 I'll get a 70-90 fps but I can't stand how 800x600 looks

Your monitor resolution can be as high as it can go for your desktop, internet browsing, ect as that won't have an impact on CSGO, however, in CSGO, in the video options tab, the lower your resolution in game, the better your FPS will be. While it's an eyesore, it will help for the time being. It may not be a huge increase, but if it's something that is much easier to be played at, I would give it a shot and try to get used to it for now.

Also for the -high command, that will increase your FPS, very slightly, not a whole lot, but a small increase. On top of that, I don't know if it accounts for CSGO, but people on TF2 used to complain that when using -high as launch options, their in-game Steam Overlay was really laggy, as well as internet browsing when the game was running in the background. That can be due to their CPU not being able to handle it or was just something with TF2, but give it a shot on CSGO and see how your FPS increase is.

I have tried using game boosters but I haven't really seen a difference in my FPS when using one. My computer also says I'm missing a "VGA" I have no idea what that is or what it does but would buying one help at all with gaming?

Game boosters won't really matter, as they stop process from running in the background that aren't needed....yet, they stay running in the background, in order to keep the other processes running in the background.

As for it saying you're missing VGA, if you were missing VGA, you wouldn't even see anything on your monitor unless you're using HDMI, DVI or Display Port over VGA, but if you're using VGA, and it's saying you're missing it, ignore it, since you can see things on your monitor fine.

@BFvsCOD Your PC is better than OPs computer. While your CPU is only a dual-core, it's still at 2.8 GHz over his 2.7 GHz. Your GPU is also better than his, as yours has a 902 MHz Core Clock and a Memory Clock of 400 MHz and a Memory Frequency of 5000 MHz, while OPs only has a Core Clock of 650 MHz and a Memory Clock of 400 MHz. You'll be able to run the game much smoother then he will.

As _Skittle has mentioned, you'll need to upgrade your PC. Your PSU, is plausible, as we don't know the PSU and it's wattage, but I'm going to assume it's pretty low. You don't have to go out and buy a $200 CPU and a $300 GPU, an Intel Pentium can run CSGO fine as it's $70 and you can get a 750 TI $140+, an R7 256x $140+ or an r9 280 $190+. While I would advise a whole new build, as I'm sure you would want to branch out into other games, if your PSU can handle the increased wattage, and you only have enough money to upgrade your CPU and GPU, either get those or save your money and tough it out with the issues for now, until you can do a full upgrade on your PC.