How to Reduce Ping in CS GO

A high ping that interferes with normal gameplay is an unpleasant phenomenon when playing CS GO.

With a high ping, players notice lags and delays and cannot quickly respond to opponents' actions and make their moves.

Fans of the shooter are looking for ways to reduce ping in CS GO, calculate an acceptable level of lag, and try to find and eliminate high ping.

In online play in CS GO, data is transmitted over the Internet.

Ping is the speed of transferring a kilobyte of information from the player's computer to the CSGO server. The indicator is measured in milliseconds, for example, 80 or 100 ms.

Ping artificially increases the response time of a player. For example, at a ping of 100 ms, a gamer reacts 0.1 second later than at a ping of 0 ms.

Delay directly affects the efficiency of gamers. The lower the ping in CS GO, the more convenient and easier it is to play.

Excellent ping in CS: GO is up to 50 ms, where events occur in real time, and delays are unnoticeable.

An acceptable level, where minor delays are possible, is up to 100 ms.

With a ping from 100 ms, delays are noticeable and affect the gameplay. For example, a player may not notice an opponent's sudden appearance from around the corner and lose the character due to a kill.

You can check your ping during a battle in Counter Strike: Global Offensive - press the 'TAB' key. The delay is displayed to the left of the user's nickname.

An alternative way to find out the current delay is to launch the console with the '~' key and type the command 'net_graph 1' to display ping and FPS.

The user will be able to constantly observe the data on the screen. You can turn off the display of information by typing the command 'net_graph 0'.

Some players use console commands that directly or indirectly affect the ping in Counter Strike: Global Offensive.

Commands for lowering ping in CS GO:

• "-tickrate 128" - server update frequency;
• "-high" - launching the game with high priority;
• "+fps_max 60" – FPS limit;
• "+cl_updaterate 100" – number of game update requests per second from the PC;
• "+cl_cmdrate 100" – number of update requests from the server;
• "+rate 25000" – traffic between the player and the server;
• "+cl_interp_ratio 1" – number of intervals between frames;
• "+cl_interp 0,01" – interpolation gap length in ms.

To launch the console, the user presses the "~" button in the menu or during a battle.

The console command «net_graph 1» allows you to get the main information about the game:

• ping - delay in ms;
• FPS - frames per second;
• loss - % of packets lost during transmission from server to client;
• choke - % of packets that can't be transmitted from the client to the server.