Counter-Strike 2’s networking features, despite being marketed as revolutionary and game-changing, often come with unwanted side effects and bugs. Packet loss and jitter have become quite prevalent after the last few CS2 updates, most notably Armory, causing a lot of headaches for many players.

Here's how to fix CS2's packet loss and jitter issues.

Now, network delays and all their byproducts can be caused by an infinite number of issues. However, it appears that CS2’s issues are caused by the game itself and the new technology that Valve has introduced over its year-long lifespan. Here are some of the best ways we’ve found to fix CS2’s network issues, including packet loss and jitter:

After Valve introduced the Armory update in CS2, the game gained a whole new set of graphs that allowed players to track exactly what was going wrong with their connection. The update may have also introduced additional network issues, most notably packet loss and jitter, but Valve has a solution. The company's Fletcher Dunn suggested that players enable the "Buffering to smooth over packet loss" option in the game's settings for CS2 and set it to either "one packet" or "two packets," whichever gives you the best results.