So ill admit, CS2 never ran perfectly in windows either, and with everything having to be “shiny” and new all the time and with updates the game was bound to get laggy.

However I do wonder, is it the fault of my 15 year old amd fx cpu, or is it linux? I have a gtx 6700 gpu which should be plenty overkill for cs2. But ive heard cs2 is processor heavy. Im also still on ddr3, 32 gb.

Should have said its an 8 core fx black edition, its the best one they made (9350? I cant recall).

Also, I dont think all my ram sticks match exactly so I may check that. But yeah it seems its just way too old. Alan wake 2 wont even launch on it.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    have a gtx 6700 gpu which should be plenty overkill for cs2. But ive heard cs2 is processor heavy.

    I don’t know which game you’re playing, not sure what CS2 is, as some other folks mention. However, if you install mangohud and run it via mangohud <gamename> — if this is Steam, in the game’s Launch Options, that’ll be “mangohud %command%” — it’ll show you CPU and GPU load in an overlay on top of your game.

    EDIT: Example:

    EDIT2: Note that by default, it shows “composite CPU load”, same as top does by default. So, say you have a 32-core CPU and a game uses only a single thread, then it’ll only show it running at 3%, even if the game is bottlenecked on the single core that it’s using. MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full mangohud <gamename> will show all CPU cores independently (along with some other data). E.g.:

    It sounds like you’re using Counter-Strike 2 from other comments, and that CS2 only really uses 1-2 cores:

    https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/594026537713459453/

    CS2 still heavily loads only 1–2 CPU threads, even on modern CPUs with multiple high-performance cores. Other cores remain mostly idle while one thread runs at 100%.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      (If you haven’t seen it before, MangoHUD is the box at the top left, the gears are your video game)