Is anybody here playing cs2? The game runs natively on Linux, but its more laggy than it was on windows for me. If i run cs2 in proton it works better than natively on Linux, but I’m unable to play competitive that way.

My issue is the following: the game just hangs/freezes occasionally. The duration is random. Could be 3-5 seconds, could be 10. Could be that I’d have to restart the game.

This occurs sometimes in the warm up before a match or when the bomb explodes.

It happens most consistently when i press the escape button in-game.

I’m running it on nobara/KDE. I’ve got the latest graphics drivers, tried validating the game files.

The game is set to run full screen ( as windowed fullscreen caps the framerate to 60, while the screen supports 144 ).

I can add more hardware info if required. The PC is 4 years old so its not ancient, but also not latest and greatest ( amd CPU+nvidia rtx 2080ti ).

Anybody else ran into this behaviour and ( hopefully) found a solution for it? Googling only left me with sites telling me to upgrade my gfx drivers on windows or 6 year old threads of CS:GO on windows.

Switching between wayland and x11 didn’t really seem to make a lot of difference. It feels a little bit better on x11, but negligible.

There isnt really anything running on the backgroudn except discord.

Thanks!

  • Dark ArcEnglish
    1•2 months ago

    Yeah, I have issues with random really poor frame times. I’ll be sitting at 144 FPS then get some frames that take 45ms to render each/severe stuttering.

    I “fixed” it using the proton version of the game though I’ve heard some people say that doesn’t work with match making… Haven’t tried that yet.

    I was thinking about trying the -vulkan launch option to see if that does anything if my proton install doesn’t work.

    EDIT: They were right … VAC doesn’t work via Proton. I retried playing the native version and it seemed to run fine this time with or without -vulkan … so I’m not really sure what’s going on anymore.

    Maybe some things have been fixed either on the Linux/Mesa or on the Valve side.

      • Dark ArcEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        Hmm, I wonder if that was it. It didn’t really seem to have anything to do with menus though.

        • @fluckxOPEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          It was in my case. Issue completely vanished overnight. I had a working work around where I lowered certain settings and it only occurred sometimes at round ends or when I pressed tab to view the scoreboard. Usually alt-tabbing resolved it.

          After they released that fiz everything worked like normal again.

          • Dark ArcEnglish
            1•2 months ago

            Very interesting. I changed my IO scheduler to kyber for unrelated issues… Maybe between that and the processing power (7950X + 7900 XTX)… my hangs were just sub second.

            • @fluckxOPEnglish
              2•2 months ago

              The issue was related to the Linux scheduler. So if you had a different scheduler than what moet distributions have as default, you might not have experienced that issue.

              There are a few people in the comments that reported that they compiled a different scheduler and that the issue completely disappeared