Counter-Strike 2

Counter-Strike 2

Developers
	Valve Corporation
Engines
	Source 2
Release dates
	September 27, 2023
	September 27, 2023
Taxonomy
Series	Counter-Strike

macOS Compatibility

Method	Rating	Notes
Native	Unplayable	Natively this game installs the Windows version
Compatibility layer
CrossOver	Perfect	The game runs perfectly with DXVK in mostly high details on Crossover 23.6. With D3DMetal, performance degrades after a few minutes of play. Both methods cause audio problems that can be resolved by opening the Audio-MIDI-Setup app and adjusting the format to 88,000+ Hz. For more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6UW6s_3TG0
Wine	Perfect	Use -nojoy as a launch argument. I had a perfect experience playing CS2 if I used PortingKit and manually compiling GPTK, then merging the wine files from GPTK into the PortingKit's wine files. See Tutorial Videos section for a guide. I used the -vulkan launch argument for better fullscreen windowed support as well as a more stable framerate.
Virtualization
Parallels	Playable	Game runs but performance is below average, about 23 FPS

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Steam

Fixing Mouse Input

If mouse acceleration is enabled on your Mac the game will seemingly ignore small mouse movements. This can be fixed by disabling mouse acceleration in the MacOS system settings

Useful Launch Arguments

• -nojoy: Essential for running this game to run at a stable framerate
• -fullscreen: Launches the game in Fullscreen
• -+cl_forcepreload 1: Forces the game to pre-load shaders - Reports of improved performance