Only 100 FPS in CSGO?

[_JohnB330ci]

So, put short I feel like my PC isn't reaching it's pull potential on CS? I'm getting 130fps AVG on 16:9 with the game maxed?

 

AMD FX-8350/R9 290X stock clocks

[Suika]

Source Engine isn't a fan of AMD processors by any means. While playing, have something like MSI Afterburner open and monitor cores 0-3 and post results. My suspicion is that core 0 is hitting 100% and preventing higher frame rates.

[Droidbot]

CSGO only uses 3 cores and the fourth is used during loading.  Probably why. Turn off HRTF in Audio settings. Set thread priority to high by setting launch options (-high, -threads 8) 

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Suika said:

Source Engine isn't a fan of AMD processors by any means. While playing, have something like MSI Afterburner open and monitor cores 0-3 and post results. My suspicion is that core 0 is hitting 100% and preventing higher frame rates.

HRTF runs on the first core as well so disable that - it isn't helping. 

[_JohnB330ci]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

HRTF runs on the first core as well so disable that - it isn't helping. 

Never had it enabled, sounds like crap, I'm trying the other suggestions as well

[SirWendall]

@Droidbot @SherifsDog22 I know. When I had a FX6300, frames dipped bad in Gmod

[_JohnB330ci]

6 minutes ago, Suika said:

Source Engine isn't a fan of AMD processors by any means. While playing, have something like MSI Afterburner open and monitor cores 0-3 and post results. My suspicion is that core 0 is hitting 100% and preventing higher frame rates.

CPU#0 Is at around 80 AVG, 1,2,3 are at 60 ish

 

[_JohnB330ci]

 

10 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

CSGO only uses 3 cores and the fourth is used during loading.  Probably why. Turn off HRTF in Audio settings. Set thread priority to high by setting launch options (-high, -threads 8) 

This gets me to around 180~