Hi everyone
I have had really bad jitter in CS2 for about 3 months now. Last year the game worked flawlessly, but now it is slowly becomming unplayable. I don’t know when the issues started as I had a longer hiatus with the game. The frame rate is stable, only packet problems. I don’t have any other FPS games to compare it to. Loading and using regular web pages works just fine.

It seems that there might be compounding issues. Things I noticed contribute to more jitter:

• Pihole (default setup CouldFlare DNS, both IPv4 and v6)
• Fedora kernel
• x11 session

What I tried:

• switching to an older kernel 6.15.9 -> 6.14.9
• using CachyOS kernel (reduces jitter, but causes serious issues with Electron apps)
• switching from Wayland (the default) to x11
• using Gamescope
• verifying game files
• disabling Pihole and unpluggin it from the network altogether

My setup:
Fedora 42 with latest updates and kernel 6.15.9, CachyOS kernel 6.16.1
Ryzen 2700 and RX6600, 32GB RAM

I have no idea what to do next. The internet doesn’t offer any solutions and everything I have tried so far does absolutely nothing. It could just be a bug in CS2 itself, but it’s strange that almost noone is reporting it. Any suggestions?
Thanks!