csgo takes +- 20 seconds to start up

Anonymous
2021-12-10T18:17:12+00:00

since yesterday i upgraded to windows 11. everything was fine and worked good. then i started up csgo, noticed it took so long to start up. like 20 seconds what was in win10 only like 2/3 seconds. i tryed to reinstal csgo. steam or even today did a clean reinstal of windows11. the problem did not go away...

it not a hardware problem.. it is a software problem ( win 11) every games runs perfect exept csgo wel if it runs it runs good. but its soooo slow... pleas help me out. i have tryed everything...

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-08-21T09:32:19+00:00

    Thanks for the hint.

    I did test that and here are the game start time results:

    • with default settings: 40 sec.
    • with steam cloud disabled: 38 sec.
    • with -insecure: 20 sec.
    • with -insecure and steam cloud disabled: 15 sec.

    Using -insecure is not an option as you mentioned because you cannot play on official servers.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-21T08:19:11+00:00

    Can you try the same with the -insecure launch option.

    If I use -insecure in launch option CSGO starts fast like om my Windows 10, BUT it's useless because you can't play on VAC enabled servers :-)

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-08-19T06:28:46+00:00

    Thanks, I tried that. Did not fix it for me.

    CS-Go is still loading in about 40 sec.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-18T03:22:37+00:00

    Disable steam cloud for csgo solved this problem for me.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-07-29T09:12:00+00:00

    Same issue. I'm looking at 30-60s startup time, when before it was a few seconds. Csgo.exe won't appear in task manager until the said time and after it does, the game will start in secods.
    I have run Process Monitor from Sysinternals to see what's going on and it seems that csgo.exe is browsing through c:\Windows\SysWOW64 folder the whole time before start up. There seems to be a few BUFFER OVERFLOW and FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS results, but I have now idea what to inspect/try next.
    Hopefully this will get somehow sorted.

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