[Help] Counter Strike 2 extreme jitter (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by some_random_nick@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone
I have had really bad jitter in CS2 for about 3 months now. Last year the game worked flawlessly, but now it is slowly becomming unplayable. I don't know when the issues started as I had a longer hiatus with the game. The frame rate is stable, only packet problems. I don't have any other FPS games to compare it to. Loading and using regular web pages works just fine.

It seems that there might be compounding issues. Things I noticed contribute to more jitter:

Pihole (default setup CouldFlare DNS, both IPv4 and v6)
Fedora kernel
x11 session

What I tried:

switching to an older kernel 6.15.9 -> 6.14.9
using CachyOS kernel (reduces jitter, but causes serious issues with Electron apps)
switching from Wayland (the default) to x11
using Gamescope
verifying game files
disabling Pihole and unpluggin it from the network altogether

My setup:
Fedora 42 with latest updates and kernel 6.15.9, CachyOS kernel 6.16.1
Ryzen 2700 and RX6600, 32GB RAM

I have no idea what to do next. The internet doesn't offer any solutions and everything I have tried so far does absolutely nothing. It could just be a bug in CS2 itself, but it's strange that almost noone is reporting it. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

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[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What software were you trying to install?

[-] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wanted to compile mimalloc. Not sure which dependencies were missing, but I couldn't install them. So I had to copy them over from another distro, but after that the linker couldn't find them. Seems like too much effort for some basic functionallity as I did the same in Fedora in less than one minute.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You can use boxbuddy which is bundled with bazzite to compile it for any distro, however without knowing your end goal I can't give you a proper suggestion.

[-] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I installed CachyOS on a spare drive and the jitter is almost gone. Just a few hickups here and there, but about 10x better out of the box. Now I am just confused. Fedora used to work perfectly fine!

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