Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is an online first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation and Hidden Path Entertainment and released on Steam, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

= Issues =

Pick team screen gets frozen
When you join a community server and choose a team, but the game starts playing in the background, but you are still on the pick team screen even though you picked a team and it's stuck until you re-select a resolution

Solution 1

Press m multiple times

Solution 2

Press ESC on your keyboard Select Choose teams -> Pick your team

Solution 3

Open the console by pressing the ~ key Type teammenu and hit enter

Solution 4

Open the console Type alias "fix" "mat_setvideomode 1920 1080 1; mat_setvideomode 1920 1080 0" and hit enter

= Enhancements =

Playing at 4:3 1440x1080 stretched resolution
Playing at a resolution of 1440x1080 gives the advantage of being high definition while also increasing the size of player models ingame, thereby making it easier to spot enemies.

nVidia users:
 * 1) Open nVidia control panel
 * 2) Click on Display -> Change Resolution
 * 3) Click Customize
 * 4) Click on Create Custom Resolution
 * 5) Set the Horizontal pixels to 1440
 * 6) Set the Vertical lines to 1080
 * 7) Click Test
 * 8) When the dialog asking you if you want to save the resolution or not pops up, click Yes
 * 9) Click OK
 * 10) Open Steam and right click on CS:GO in your Steam library
 * 11) Click Properties -> Set Launch Options
 * 12) Copy and paste -full -w 1440 -h 1080
 * 13) Click OK
 * 14) Play CS:GO

If you're having issues with CS:GO displaying at a non-stretched resolution with black bars then follow these steps:

Fixing non-stretched resolution in CS:GO:
 * 1) Open nVidia control panel
 * 2) Click on Display -> Adjust desktop size and position
 * 3) Under scaling, select Full-screen
 * 4) Click apply
 * 5) Run CS:GO

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