Other Valve-powered titles, such as Dota 2, run on Source 2, but despite being the firm’s flagship multiplayer title, CSGO remains on Source, which is almost two decades old and somewhat outdated – even if it does still work remarkably well to retain players. – cs2.exe /hWsWOh4YKV- Aquarius March 1, 2023 😳🚨With one of the latest NVIDIA Drivers a new Game Profile has been added to the NVIDIA Control Panel called 'Counter-strike 2'!! Hours ago, a comment posted on Reddit (and further shared on Twitter) suggests that CSGO may be about to receive some kind of upgrade to Source 2, Valve’s newest game engine that was initially released in 2014 to serve as a grand successor to the Source engine. However, even after a decade, it seems that CSGO is still poised to make massive waves within the gaming community. As arguably the leading esports title, CSGO quite literally holds the weight of an entire industry on its shoulders.

Recently, the game smashed peak player records on Steam, drawing in a concurrent count reaching as high as 1,354,248 users.

It’s believed that these are indicators of the imminent arrival of an upgrade that will see CSGO ported over to Source 2, Valve’s more recent game engine.Īt face value, ‘CSGOS2’ could quite literally mean ‘CSGO Source 2’, but the confusion was heightened following the inclusion of the term ‘Counter-strike 2’, which led some fans to believe that a sequel to CSGO was on the way.įor years, the concept of CSGO pivoting to Source 2 has been lobbied about by fans of the legendary FPS title, but is it finally about to happen? Still Breaking RecordsĬounter-Strike: Global Offensive is a monumental game that after more than ten years is still breaking records. Following the deployment of the latest drivers for NVIDIA GPUs, it has been revealed that there’s a reference hidden within the ‘Game Profiles’ in the update’s code that mentions ‘CSGOS2’ and ‘CS2’.

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