News Counter-Strike 2 Arrives, Though Curiously Only AMD Has Officially Announced Driver Support

[Admin]

Counter-Strike 2 launched yesterday, but AMD is the only brand to have a new driver ready for the new game. Technically. Nvidia, in reality, baked in CS2 optimizations into its drivers several months ago.

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[brandonjclark]

It's unfortunate that Valve just hasn't evolved the gameplay in this series one bit.

With modern gameplay in series like Apex or Call of Duty, the old CS formula is downright boring.

I ended up uninstalling it just like I did when I saw that CS:GO was the same thing as CS:S.

Oh well, there ARE other games out there.

 

[azalea_k]

Lifted directly off the driver download page:

"This is also the Game Ready Driver for Counter-Strike 2 with NVIDIA Reflex."

 

[Corvii]

It's unfortunate that Valve just hasn't evolved the gameplay in this series one bit.

With modern gameplay in series like Apex or Call of Duty, the old CS formula is downright boring.

I ended up uninstalling it just like I did when I saw that CS:GO was the same thing as CS:S.

Oh well, there ARE other games out there.

There is no need to fix what ain't broken, the game has been constantly growing and will continue growing further with the release of CS2.

They don't need to change the game's core mechanics to evolve it. The new smokes, MR12, maps, and the engine itself are more than enough to change the meta of the game completely.

There is no point in comparing it to Apex, COD, those are completely different games.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Text has been updated to properly reflex the prior "game ready" status of both Nvidia and Intel drivers. We knew about Nvidia having had support since March. The current driver page has also been updated to mention CS2. (I swear that wasn't there yesterday afternoon, though we could have missed it.) Intel let us know drivers added support for the beta CS2 back in June — not that there's any good way to find those drivers now, AFAICT.

 

[azalea_k]

Text has been updated to properly reflex the prior "game ready" status of both Nvidia and Intel drivers. We knew about Nvidia having had support since March. The current driver page has also been updated to mention CS2. (I swear that wasn't there yesterday afternoon, though we could have missed it.) Intel let us know drivers added support for the beta CS2 back in June — not that there's any good way to find those drivers now, AFAICT.

I think you're right, particularly referring to the notes; I seem to remember CS2 being mentioned on the download page, though, when I got drivers for Phantom Liberty, the day after they were released.

They seem to be at great pains to highlight their game readiness in the notes now, though, possibly prompted by articles like this.