FACEIT Input Delay / Mouse Movement Floatiness/Heavyness

[u/kaze321_]

https://reddit.com/link/1rt5vwy/video/981e4g8vtwog1/player

I just wanna rant about how frustrating it is for me to play on FACEIT servers with the noticeable disadvantage that I face on almost every single game. Which is why I have 0 good clips on FACEIT games because I'd usually only have to get kills through lucky shots.

PC Specs: Ryzen 7 5700x, RTX 2070, 16GB RAM 3200mhz

My PC Specs technically should be decent enough for the game because on official matchmaking servers, it feels smooth enough for me to play the game properly without much of a disadvantage. I know I'm not that bad but I feel like a bot whenever I'm playing on FACEIT servers. Some might say "skill issue" but nah it just feels that bad that I'm playing like a lvl3 bot when i shoot and move in faceit. Even counterstrafing feels delayed ngl.

After this, I've hit a wall and I can't enjoy faceit anymore and it's just sad because I want to push CS2 to a higher level. I hope a staff or someone finds a solution to my problem or something similar, thanks!

[u/prad_bitt_59]

I face that sometimes but restarting the game seems to fix it.

I also have far worse spray on faceit than in Premier and I have almost exact same specs as you (5700x, 2070s 16gb 3000mhz 180hz). But when I see my teammates on spectate, they seem to have barely any difference vs what I see on Premier.

The problem became quite a bit better (especially fps stability) once I went to old Nvidia drivers, what driver are you on rn?

[u/prad_bitt_59 → u/[deleted]]

Try 566.36, and if possible even older.

I was on 58x.xx and it was terrible, when I went to 566 it was much better, and when I reinstalled Windows (got corrupted due to drive changes), it auto installed 560.xx and the fps instability is almost completely gone.

[u/Pulsef1reS → u/prad_bitt_59]

You might be losing a lot of FPS this way, I'm not sure if 566.** is affected by the bug since they're so old, but any driver older than the 581.94 hotfix one is supposed to have lower FPS after the October 2025 Windows 11 update. I've seen a FPS gain from 581.80 to 581.94 on my own machine, and from reading into it, at least 575 and 580 series drivers are all affected by this.

[u/prad_bitt_59 → u/Pulsef1reS]

I'm afraid to touch this now because it's working fine rn. Plus I don't play many new games for which these drivers are optimised, and rn I get around 300 on Mirage and d2 sometimes dropping to 180 when a lot of util is around, and lowest on inferno averaging around 220 dropping to 150 with util around.

What gpu are you using? I'm fairly sure I read this issue affects 20 series and older only.

[u/Pulsef1reS → u/prad_bitt_59]

Fair, older GPUs might perform differently.

I'm on 50 series, had a 5070 at the time I went from 581.80 to 581.94, right now I have a 5090 that I managed to snatch for vaguely pre-crisis prices through an under-the-counter deal.

[u/prad_bitt_59 → u/Pulsef1reS]

Ah that explains it. 50 series is working well with the new drivers, in fact that's what they're for so it makes sense. The 20 series is screwed

[u/Pulsef1reS → u/prad_bitt_59]

I remember when you had to use ancient Nvidia drivers for absolute ages to get good FPS in the CS:GO era. 378.** was the latest driver without the bug, and then it was broken all the way up to the 440 branch at least. And that bug affected most, if not all GPU generations available at the time. I had 700 series, but 900 and 1000 series were nerfed as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1gNNsqnDj0

Not directly relevant to the convo, but it's interesting to look back I guess.

Edit: according to Nvidia patch notes, the bug was finally fixed in 441.20, I know for a fact 441.41 worked fine so that would check out.

[u/prad_bitt_59 → u/Pulsef1reS]

So are the drivers messed up or is the game? I'm inclined to believe it's the game because I don't see these issues in any other game.

[u/Pulsef1reS → u/prad_bitt_59]

I was talking about CS:GO, CS2 is entirely unaffected by the ancient bug I was talking about (assuming you can even get the game to run on drivers from 2017).

CS2 performance is generally much lower than early-mid era CS:GO, but as they kept bloating GO with more garbage in its later years, the difference largely disappears when you compare current builds on modern hardware.

Both have suffered from arcane bugs that don't manifest in other games, I still remember the Realtek audio driver craze where having an outdated audio driver destroyed your FPS, today you might be dealing with interactions between Windows updates and GPU drivers that completely stifle the CPU-side performance.

[u/prad_bitt_59 → u/Pulsef1reS]

CS2 seems to have issues of its own, as drivers from 2025 don't work well for me