Does anyone know why does this happen or if this just happens to me? I alt-tabbed a few times at the beggining just to show it's not related to alt tabbing, but the moment I hover my mouse over "high" it increases the fps, I don't even select/click that option, I have -high in my launch options btw (on my screen it says "Alto" instead of "High" cuz it's in spanish)
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The same reason your software starts responding when you open the task manager.
It knows.
Standard spaghetti.
just tried this and can confirm that even i got a huge boost, from 450 to 600fps.. although i couldn’t replicate it consistently… tried in one server and got the boost, restarted the game tried another server (both valve DM servers and both had only players no bots) and i didnt get the boost.. 14900K here
what happens to your fps when you select high?
What happens if you hover any other option?
Try windowed fullscreen — can give you +15 FPS. Also, setting fps_max 150 helps your system focus on maintaining stable 150 instead of struggling to reach 300. More consistent, less stutter.
A long time ago in CS 1.6, in some configurations, people gained “performance” by leaving a video playing in the Windows Media Player.
In fact, it was a well-known tip for running HL1 servers at high fps:
[https://forums.alliedmods.net/archive/index.php/t-94585.html](https://forums.alliedmods.net/archive/index.php/t-94585.html)
I have a hypothesis in your case:
Windows, your drives, your Bios-Mobo or CS2 itself are not activating your CPU/GPU effectively, allowing some “component” of economy to reduce its performance.
I would start by studying your Bios/Mobo configuration, to make it HOT. That is, make it as less economical as possible, (disabling economy states, setting the best-case scenario, activating forced performance states…)