Really bad performance in CS:GO for no apparent reason

I upgraded the Hardware of my Computer yesterday and since then I get about 20 FPS in CS:GO and only CS:GO, everything else I’ve tried runs great.
With MangoHud I can clearly see that CS:GO is using my GPU, with about 30% GPU usage, but only about 7% CPU usage.

I’ve already tried this launch command “mangohud %command% -high -threads 4”.

My hardware before upgrade (Intel NUC Kit NUC6i7KYK with egpu connected):
CPU: Intel Core i7-6770HQ
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Memory: DDR4 32GB

My hardware now:
CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12700K (20) @ 5.000GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Memory: DDR4 16GB

Kernel: Linux 5.15.72-1

pamac install gamemode
systemctl --user enable --now gamemoded.service

Startup option:

gamemoderun mangohud %command% -high -threads 4

Seems to help a little with my problem, now I get around 25 - 30 FPS and CPU usage is around 5%

Hi @Moyme, and welcome!

This might be it. There is a problem with the driver for this card:

To confirm, please provide the output for:

mhwd --listinstalled

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Output:

> Installed PCI configs:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.11.04               false            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

Seems that it possibly is. Please provide the output for:

mhwd --list

Output:

> 0000:03:00.0 (0200:10ec:8168) Network controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI


> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:2503) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.11.04               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2021.11.04               false            PCI
          video-nvidia            2021.11.04               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-470xx            2021.11.04               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI


> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:4680) Display controller Intel Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2021.11.04               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2021.11.04               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI

Ah well… guess you run csgo on you internal GPU which is intel…

Try this to use the nvidia card:

prime-run gamemoderun mangohud %command% -high -threads 4
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That fixed it! Thank you!

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