Best NVIDIA Settings for CS2

Have you ever wondered how the game has fancy and very strong colors in some streams? It is no secret that such settings can make a huge positive difference on your performance since it gives you better visibility and feeling.

With this guide we are going to show you the best NVIDIA settings that makes your game look smoother and better, and possibly make you gain some more FPS.

This guide will be separated to two sections, the first section will show you how can you get the best visibility possible from NVIDIA settings and the second section will show you how you can get the best FPS possible by just changing some settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

The best NVIDIA settings for visibility in CS2

There are some visibility issues with CS2 and sadly, the in-game settings are not enough to change them but luckily NVIDIA Control Panel makes you able to change that.

• Launch the NVIDIA Control Panel
• Click the "Adjust Desktop Color Settings" in the Display section
• Proceed to follow the image below (added also text version below):

Tick Use NVIDIA settings. And proceed with adjustments as follows:

Color channel: All channels

Brightness: +55%

Contrast: +50%

Gamma: +1.10

Digital vibrance: +100%

Hue: +0

• Click Apply.

The above NVIDIA settings improve visibility in CS2. This combined with in-game settings will give you the ability to see through molotov flame smokes (the black ones) and in some cases also through fading smokes. It also improves the visibility in dark places which can also help you in-game.

The best NVIDIA settings for FPS boost

It is not a secret that with these settings you can get noticeable positive changes in your frame rates. With this guide we are going to show you how to tweak, optimize and speed up your NVIDIA Control for CS2 to have smoother gameplay. This guide works amazingly well on both old and brand new PCs, it ensures you are getting the MOST out of your NVIDIA GeForce graphics card by optimizing it properly.

• Launch the NVIDIA Control Panel
• Go to Adjust image settings with preview: Select the option "Use the Advanced 3D Settings" then click "Take me there"
• Now you want to go to Program Settings and select CS2
• Proceed to follow the images below (added also text version):

Select a program: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Feature: Setting

Image Sharpening: Use global setting (Off)

Ambient Occlusion: Off

Anisotropic filtering: Off

Antialiasing - Gamma correction: Off

Antialiasing - Mode: Enhance the application setting

Antialiasing - Setting: 2x

Low Latency Mode: On

Max Frame Rate: Use global setting (Off)

OpenGL rendering GPU: Use global setting (Auto-select)

Optimize for Compute Performance: On

Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance

Preferred refresh rate: Highest available

Shader Cache: On

Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization: On

Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Clamp

Texture filtering - Quality: High performance

Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: Off

Threaded optimization: On

Triple buffering: Off

• Click Apply.

These NVIDIA settings should give you a significant FPS boost. The settings are regularly tested and updated. They were tested multiple times in 2022 and have already been tested and confirmed as working with the latest 2023 patch for CS2 and are compatible with NVIDIA updates.

On top of the NVIDIA settings, a lot more can be achieved when combined with In-Game settings. We have another post covering the Best In-Game Video Settings for CS2.