The development of counter strike 2 it is already a reality. The sequel to Valve’s well-known multiplayer shooter has as its mission, at least, to maintain the quality and interest of players in the product, and for this it will have to introduce some changes and novelties that help make it attractive compared to Global Offensive. For this, in addition to an expected graphic improvement through the use of the Source 2 engine, we have recently learned that the sequel will include support for NVIDIA Reflex to reduce latencies.
The great popularity of online multiplayer video games and an increasingly competitive environment have triggered concerns about latency, which can end up being a determining factor for players who take their games seriously.
This is where NVIDIA Reflex comes in, which is an end-to-end SDK built with esports in mind and that reduces the time between the moment the player makes an input with the keyboard and mouse and the projection of the result on the monitor, passing through the CPU and GPU in the process. With a shorter render queue, the CPU can sample mouse, keyboard, or controller input at the last millisecond to reduce the gap between the time the player has made an input and the game’s reaction. The green giant says that his technology is capable of reducing latency by up to 35%.
NVIDIA Reflex has already been included in titles like Fortnite and Valorant, although Counter-Strike: Global Offensive doesn’t support it. With its inclusion in Counter-Strike 2, Valve implements a feature that may be in high demand by competitive gamers, if NVIDIA’s clear dominance in this segment isn’t already seeing it.
One of the most important aspects that Counter-Strike 2 should take into account is the system requirements, which in Global Offensive are low due to the age of the game. Fortunately, NVIDIA Reflex will work on GeForce GTX 900 series graphics cards, which appeared in 2014although to really get the most out of it you may want to use a monitor with a refresh rate of 120Hz or higher.
