CounterStrike GO (and probably some other Games) Framelags

Hi,
Since Operation Riptide I had huge performance Issues regarding CS:GO. Many lags but worst of all: trying to use the mic was nearly impossible. Turns out it’s the compositor’s “fault”.
So if you are using for example KDE and having problems every time a shader renders (i.e. smokes, HE etc.), my best guess is to set your compositor to the lowest possible setting (or disable it if you’re fine with the sideeffects like screentearing).
If you don’t know where to find the settings: just click your Manjaro-Button (Startmenu) and type “compositor”. The rest will explain itself :wink:
I already noticed the compositor impacting my performance on other games like Deus Ex Mankind devided but CS:GO is nearly impossible to play with default settings now (OpenGL 2.0 and best Scaling).
This post is just to help people without going in to technical details.

Don’t know if that’s the correct Category, please move if it’s in the wrong place

That’s the problem to me, your post doesn’t explain anything and is widely vague on the problem and solution.

Maybe my description was too vague. I try to clarify it.

My Problem:
Poor performance in some games, especially in CS:GO since recent updates.
My framerate in CS drops everytime any effect begins to render (for example smoke grenades) and if I try to use the microphone the game freezes completely for around 3-4 seconds.

My solution after a bit of research and experimenting:
Lowering the compositor settings.
I got the best results when setting the Scalingmethod down (my Manjaro is localized, so I don’t know what “Pixelig” in German translates to).

My System:

inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width                                                                                                                                                                                                                     ✔ 
System:
  Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64 
  root=UUID=a6c6f552-5849-456d-8da0-e6557f5ebcff rw quiet apparmor=1 
  amd_iommu=on rd.driver.pre=vfio-pci kvm.ignore_msrs=1 security=apparmor 
  resume=UUID=10a7d3e9-e7a6-4558-88f8-f5fc4256a056 udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4021 date: 08/09/2021 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.27 GiB used: 3.2 GiB (10.2%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache: 
  L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 182448 
  Speed: 2201 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2201 2: 2055 3: 2197 4: 2196 5: 3598 6: 2054 7: 2044 8: 2542 9: 2131 
  10: 2152 11: 2198 12: 2202 13: 2054 14: 2199 15: 2200 16: 2197 17: 2200 
  18: 4473 19: 2046 20: 2042 21: 2196 22: 2198 23: 2195 24: 2200 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy 
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm 
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc 
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq 
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse 
  pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni 
  skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp 
  succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl 
  v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave 
  xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia 
  v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 0c:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: AMD Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X] vendor: XFX Pine 
  driver: vfio-pci v: 0.2 alternate: radeon,amdgpu bus-ID: 0d:00.0 
  chip-ID: 1002:6798 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: Microdia AUKEY PC-W3 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0c45:636d class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 7680x1440 s-dpi: 107 s-size: 1824x342mm (71.8x13.5") 
  s-diag: 1856mm (73.1") 
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 
  size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 685mm (27") 
  Monitor-2: DP-0 res: 2560x1440 hz: 144 dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2") 
  diag: 685mm (27") 
  Monitor-3: DP-2 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2") 
  diag: 685mm (27") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 
  v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Creative Labs Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series] 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:0012 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f0 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-3: AMD Tahiti HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7870 XT / 7950/7970] 
  vendor: XFX Pine driver: vfio-pci v: 0.2 alternate: snd_hda_intel 
  bus-ID: 0d:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaa0 class-ID: 0403 
  Device-4: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0f:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-5: Microdia AUKEY PC-W3 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0c45:636d class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Device-6: RODE Microphones RODE AI-1 type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-4:4 chip-ID: 19f7:000a 
  class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no 
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes 
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.0 
  chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel 
  port: d000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel 
  port: c000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-6:8 
  chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 16.37 TiB used: 3.19 TiB (19.5%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QGXA7 temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:4 vendor: Samsung 
  model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> 
  rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST8000NM000A-2KE101 
  size: 7.28 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: SB2D scheme: GPT 
  ID-5: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000MX500SSD1 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 032 scheme: GPT 
  ID-6: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT 
  ID-7: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000MX500SSD1 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 033 scheme: GPT 
  ID-8: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 vendor: Crucial model: CT960BX500SSD1 
  size: 894.25 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: R022 scheme: GPT 
  ID-9: /dev/sdh maj-min: 8:112 type: USB vendor: Generic 
  model: USB3.0 CRW -SD size: 29.12 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: BD-RE BH16NS40 rev: 1.05 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 896.83 GiB size: 881.68 GiB (98.31%) 
  used: 119.54 GiB (13.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
  label: N/A uuid: a6c6f552-5849-456d-8da0-e6557f5ebcff 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
  label: NO_LABEL uuid: CBF9-225D 
  ID-3: /run/media/best/2TB_SSD_Crucial raw-size: 1.82 TiB 
  size: 1.79 TiB (98.37%) used: 445.4 GiB (24.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 
  maj-min: 8:33 label: 2TB_SSD_Crucial 
  uuid: 20e5b60e-7dc1-4404-b1a9-3825086ce53b 
  ID-4: /run/media/best/8TB_Exos raw-size: 7.28 TiB size: 7.22 TiB (99.20%) 
  used: 2.64 TiB (36.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: 8TB_Exos 
  uuid: 57c1c0a7-2aeb-4a0f-96a1-58faf43019dd 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 34.39 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: swap 
  uuid: 10a7d3e9-e7a6-4558-88f8-f5fc4256a056 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:5 size: 300 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A 
  uuid: 9B03-4F61 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:6 size: 896.74 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A 
  uuid: 19e091c4-abc4-4be8-b07f-f351dec819a1 
  ID-3: /dev/nvme1n1p3 maj-min: 259:7 size: 34.47 GiB fs: swap label: N/A 
  uuid: 6679d245-16d1-41c9-8082-40aaf87ed154 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd1 maj-min: 8:49 size: 1.82 TiB fs: ext4 label: 2TB_WD 
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  label: 1TB_Part_Crucial uuid: 30d67c5b-6f01-4e6c-94e4-1aed51354f0c 
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  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-8: /dev/sdf3 maj-min: 8:83 size: 893.63 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
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  ID-10: /dev/sdh1 maj-min: 8:113 size: 29.12 GiB fs: ext4 label: enc 
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USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Microdia AUKEY PC-W3 type: Video,Audio 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 0c45:636d class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-2: 1-3:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-3.1:5 info: Corsair K95 RGB Platinum Keyboard [RGP0056] 
  type: Keyboard,HID driver: usbfs interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 1b1c:1b2d class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 1-3.3:7 info: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum Optical Mouse 
  type: Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 046d:c332 class-ID: 0300 
  serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 1-4:4 info: RODE Microphones RODE AI-1 type: Audio,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 19f7:000a class-ID: 0300 
  serial: <filter> 
  Hub-3: 1-5:6 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-6:8 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029 
  class-ID: e001 
  Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 2-3:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 05e3:0612 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-4:3 info: ASUSTek AURA LED Controller type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 16mA 
  chip-ID: 0b05:18f3 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 3-5:4 info: Genesys Logic Multislot Card Reader/Writer 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 05e3:0716 class-ID: 0806 
  serial: <filter> 
  Hub-7: 3-6:5 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-8: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 4-1:2 info: Realtek USB3.0 Card Reader type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 800mA 
  chip-ID: 0bda:0306 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-9: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-10: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 
  speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 32.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 54 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
Info:
  Processes: 436 Uptime: 3h 36m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 249 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 alt: 10 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: 
  pacman: 1555 lib: 474 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.8 
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06

According to other forums, I’m not the only one who got this Problem recently, so this is what works best for me

That’s weird, I don’t see the connection with your microphone and the compositor settings. Also if you start the System Settings from the terminal with systemsettings5, it should be in english, great to share screenshots or communicate a specific setting so everyone can find what it is.

For the shader thing, to me it sounds like it generates the shader, there is a setting in Steam called Shader Pre-caching maybe it can help you.

Seemed weird to me too, but I guess it’s caused by the “overlay” during microphone usage. Still seems a bit odd but I can’t find any other explanation to why changes in the compositor would affect this.
Opening the systemsettings via terminal doesn’t change the language for me but I can attach a screenshot with the settings that work best for me in german. The order of the Menus should be the same.
Still can’t figure out the translation of this Scale-method, but I know the other two are “Accurate” and “Smooth”. If you can tell me how the setting is called in english, I will add it to the TLDR :slight_smile:

Good point but I don’t think you can generate those shaders beforehand. I got Shader-Precaching on all the time :thinking:

BTW: Funny thing I found out during experimenting: I tried to watch a Youtube Video (WQHD) in firefox, while opera was showing a random website and scrolling on a website in chromium (chromium was the active window). Every browser was on a different display. On default compositor settings, the Video startet lagging a bit while scrolling in chromium. With my current settings, everything works smooth and without any tearing.

TLDR: Changing the Scale Method to “Crisp” in the compositor mostly fixed the Problem for me.

OK, I have changed something on my side, probably in my .bashrc file I have export LANG=C so it affects the terminal. The available value in English are Crisp/Smooth/Accurate I guess you have Crisp (in French for me Crisp is “Direct” and for you in German it is “Pixelated” :rofl:)

Good point but I still see it as part of the game rendering so it shouldn’t interfere if it is part of the game itself. I don’t know.

Anyway this is the setting I have too in my compositor for the scaling (but I have ‘balanced’ for the latency, I will try the other ones to see if I can spot differences, I noticed some weirdness with multiple Firefox windows in the past, in the scenario you described, that could still be a good tip :+1:)

I know that sometimes information gets lost in translation but this is funny :joy:
No front to the translation team, they are doing an amazing job :wink:

Interesting. Haven’t thought anybody else in this forum would see this behavior in Firefox (due to the conditions to trigger it).

Thanks again for helping me with the translation and to make this Post more informative :slightly_smiling_face:

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