CS GO's FOV - Your resolution matters 

1:26 leaked image of Counter Strike:Global Offensive Mobile

Thank you for your resolution of this issue Philip.

4:39 Watch the mag as he is reloading. Your whole life is a lie.

Right, so how many monitors do I need for 360° vision in competitive play?

Quake pro is the best fov

4:13 What the hell is laying there on the left side next to the bottle?!?!?!?

0:59 that hall looks trippy af

Damnit, the flashback music didn’t lead to a story!

"Human,provided they haven't fought the Mountain,have 90 degree of vision"

Imagine not covering 21:9 This post was made by the ultrawide gang

0:22 never thought I’d see the day where Philip would assert dominance by T posing

"Breaks the models" Me a tf2 player: wait arms ARENT supposed to be unconnected from the body?

0:06 is about what i see when i go from stretched 1280x1024 to 1920x1080.

An fov slider or at least the ability to change it in the console (without sv_cheats) would be a game changer, literally

The 4:3 is often paired with stretched, which does make the player models bigger

Should be studying for my exam in 7 hours yet here I'm, studying fov in csgo with my love 3kliksphilip

It's locked so you cant lower you FOV to "zoom" in on an enemy. Say equip a deagle bind you right mouse key to change FOV between say 40degrees(zoomed) and 110 degrees(wide angle fow) and boom you have a mini AWP.

0:46 adding in some lovely lens flare effects for absolutely no reason... i love it

1:20 this is the man we fell in love with

Just started my fast and after the prayers I usually go to sleep but I saw your notification and watched it. I enjoyed it.

1:23 I knew we would see this picture return

I use an ultra-wide, and when I die I can sometimes see things on the edge that my teammates will miss. This has caused me to help teammates clutch on a few rare occasions when I saw an enemy that they didn't, because they were just at the edge of my screen. Usually though, if they don't see the enemy themselves, my call out will be too slow to save them before the enemy shoots them.

3kliksphilip always producing the best content - been viewing since early source days thanks for everything

3:31 I can't be the only one that gets tripped out with it feeling like a small area

One benefit of 4:3 stretch is more consistent perceived aim sensitivity. i.e. a 106 degree FOV with a rectilinear projection as is used in FPSs, the sides of the screen appear stretched and distorted, unless your eye (singular. monocular vision) is close enough to the screen. for a 24" 16:9 display, this is very close... about 200mm/8" from the screen. with a 90 degree FOV 4:3 stretch to 16:9 24", the viewpoint goes up to a more realistic 265mm/10.5". plus the horizontal stretch means a bit of magnification for long range targets yet no loss of vertical FOV.

I used to always set my FOV sliders to max in FPS games for the benefit of having more peripheral vision (I played on 130 in Quake 3). Now though I prefer to strike a sweet spot between peripheral visibility and focus. Having a higher FOV tends to make objects look smaller and increase the "visual noise", potentially making things slightly harder to distinguish and/or focus on. For me I find the extra peripheral is less helpful than having consistently better clarity around my central point of vision, especially when it comes to long range engagements. I feel like this is part of the reason some people prefer 4:3 in CS:GO (aside from just being used to it of course). Personally I'd consider anywhere from 90 to 110 FOV (x-axis) to be the optimal range for most FPS games assuming a standard 16:9 monitor setup. In terms of CSGO: 4:3 for better target focus, 16:9 for better peripheral visibility.

3:34 A fix for that and the in game GUI is to enable Triple-Monitor mode, which will place the menu and other things such as the map closer to the middle (2/3 of the screen)

3:44 i thought he would go into some weird throwback memory. with LonleyPhilip

oh my god that intro is gonna make me throw up stop. 1:23 damn that image gives me flashbacks how many references there are to older stuff about your videos in general is awesome.

3kliks asserting dominance with that meaty T-pose

Turns out I've been playing with 20° less peripheral vision for years. Wonder how many things I've missed because of my monitor.

I've never heard FOV being pronounced like you did at the end, but at least we finally have an answer to as why the title had a instead of an on the other video

Bind mouse3 "fov_cs_debug 60" Bind mouse4 "fov_cs_debug 100" now you have a scope for all weapons (if they implemented the slider)

I just change my resolution to 1x1 and i see everything at once

You can move the entire HUD closer to center screen with safezonex/safezoney convars if playing on ultrawide displays

I really wish they did Aspect Ratio changes while retaining native resolution like Rainbow 6. It allows you to change your Aspect Ratio without degrading the picture because it's changing it within the game. I made a post on Reddit about it but only people who had no clue on what I was talking about came in an argued it with me without testing anything. In Rainbow 6, because you can change it within the engine, not only does it not degrade the image just by being outside of your native aspect ratio, it's also retaining image quality because it's not using your GPU to stretch out a square image and it's being processed by the Engine. It's fantastic, and I think you should show comparisons because although 4:3 does the same calculations that you would use in order to use your native height (like 1080 or 1440) it's got almost 0 loss to quality. The reason I run 4:3 is not what you said, but it's because it's easier to see players from further away, minus how terrible the image quality is because of how poorly this game processes lower resolutions without allowing sharpening or better filtering.

After this video I understood. All this time I had 5:4, not 4:3, even when all the games I played said me it is 4:3

jokes on you, i use 4:3 because i have a 4:3 monitor ;;'(

In wide setups you actually can adjust hud to be displayed closer to the centre

This video helped me out A LOT to understand the relation between aspect ratio, resolution and FoV. It means, that there is actually an "effective FoV" in certain games in relation to the resolution and aspect ratio you use, as well as how the game is supposed to be rendered. Quake Live's natural is rendering occures in 4:3 aspect ratio, but that doesnt mean The picture is stretched when playing on a monitor with native resolution of 1920*1080 in 16:9 aspect ratio. It simply means that in contrast to pictures, where the picture is cropped to the actual size, it is increased in games. This however has an impact on the actual Field of View. If you play quake like in that said settings with 90° FoV, you actually have 106°. If you would play OW with those settings and 103° FoV, it actually stays 103°, since it's naturally rendered in 16:9. Before this video I always thought aspect ratios belong to certain resolutions, while the ingame- FoV-settings actually set the FoV, which is both not correct. Thanks!

Woah kliksphilip. I would quit if I could no longer use 4:3

Me: *notices something at the edge of my eye* My neck: *_Z O O P_*

I've just picked up a 32:9 display and found a console command, something like xsafezone related to that HUD position slider in the config. 0.4 was a good fit for me and better than the 0.33 you get with 'triple monitor mode' enabled. Everything's still visible but it isn't crowded in and it only affects the in-game HUD so the main menu doesn't get all squished in the middle.

What a good video, honestly i've been wondering about this.

You get wider player models when 4x3 is stretched to 16x9, not when it's left with black borders.

after years i still love my 21:9 screen... holding 2 angles so far from each other normal 16:9 peasants cant see both at the same time is so much fun when they cant see shit and you just kill someone like you have radar hacks

I wiped out CTs while holding my arms out. Thanks for the guide.

by the way you mentioned that when using super ultra wide monitors in csgo the HUD is so far on the sides that you have to twist your neck to see it. well there is a console command that can move the HUD closer to the center of the screen. it is safezonex & safezoney respectively. Both these commands range from 0.2 and 1.0. safezonex is used to change the horizontal positioning, while safezoney changes the vertical. Sorry for rambling on for so long about that, just thought I would let you know. Love this video though. All the best, Jack

I love how valve is constantly listening to the community to improve Cs:Go. The 3 monitor feature has been added about 1-3 months after he made his video about it.

4:12 what is that thing on the table ? xd

Valve removed this option on purpose. Hence the command "fov_cs_debug", in the past it was "default_fov", there is even support on earliest versions of csgo. The reason to see more was the motivation to fix this. It was a try to force players on their thinking of "how players should see when what". Like, you need a 360° setup to see 360°, but you still wont see more than 180.

For triple monitor setups for CS:GO enable “triple monitor mode” w/e so the UI is correctly displayed.

0:10 human fov provided they haven't fought the mountain 😂😂😳🤩😝😵🧐

Did he just T-pose on us?

wider player models come from 4:3 but stretching to 16:9 makes them wide, but also throws off how the mouse feels

Always enjoying your videos!! can you make another knife comparison since new knives came out? or are they fixed to 1 sec to pull them out?

I thought that I was playing on 4:3, but 3kliksphilip opened my eyes that I play at 5:4, thank you

I like to play with 16:10 too becuse 16:9 looks so weird and 16:10 is like 4.3 but better it just looks normal

Ok how about the viemodel fov. Does the default viewmodel fov value accurately representate gun size in world model?

Surely this isn't about how wide your monitor is so much as it it how much your monitor is bent. as if the monitor is not bent and you raise the fov will the perspective not still look weird?

Actually humans can only see 120°-140°, Philip!

1:51 I do play in 1:1 at 750x750, i've started playing with this res over a year ago (and i really like it), am i strange ?

From when you explained 4:3 I switched to 16:9. I also started caring more about the graphics. Graphics don't make a game but improve it. As always you have a high production quality and a good amount of knowledge.

made me chuckle at the protractor

4:3 is the best res 1440x1080

people who play at 4:3 stretched dont understand math. CSGOs input engine scales via focal length. if your X axis appears stretched, then your mouses X axis will ~appear~ to move faster than the Y axis; in reality they are always equal. the target "looks" wider...but it ISNT. to aim, your mouse still requires exactly the same fine motor control per pixel! the same proportionally equivalent ignorance perpetuated the low resolution fad in earlier CS, decades ago. rendering the game at a lower pixel density doesnt change the size or location of hitboxes in relation to the environment, whose parameters are constantly calculated independent of your graphics cards current pixel density of rendered output.

You can move the HUD - you can calculate diagonal HUD. In HLAE you get fov as well. A 3 monitor setup does look awful because you are still rendering from one eye - which shouldn't be and is properly done in driving or flying games. The 90fov is chosen because it is most natural to the fov a normal monitor takes. So you look through a window in first person. This messes up when you get closer to the monitor or use streched pixels. I am currently thinking a lot about getting a new monitor and also how to use a VGA resolution camera best with anamorphic lenses.

The thing for 4:3 and the reason I use it is because although the models aren't wider, they appear wider. 4:3 noticeably allows me to improve aim, especially when I am awping. It's the same reason that using a scope on the Aug or SG553 improves aim aside from the recoil reduction. It basically makes everything appear bigger without actually making it bigger, at the cost of some peripheral vision. It also makes movements on the screen appear to happen faster, since your perspective is more zoomed in. I sometimes switch back to 16:9 or 10, when I am feeling the game is too fast, but I always go back to 4:3 for the comfort I feel from the more zoomed in feel. This is all assuming you're using stretched and not BB as I am. With BB I see no reason to use it other than it feels like the monitors of the past.

0:09 Thank you for the Game of Thrones reference; I truly appreciate it. Please tell Matthew to watch game of thrones because he wont listen to me.

So if you knew that the y-axis never changed, why did you continue to show the player perspective on the protractor map with the one vertical protractor? Wouldn't it have been easier to convey the angle increase if you showed the perspective from 90 degrees to the left? Showing the angle marks on the protractor the whole way around you in an arc?

I completely agree with you to give the players the choice of the FOV. A slider won't be that much work and on the other hand a big benefit for the players.

There's a fov bug when you use AUG. If I remember it correctly, I set the fov_cs_debug to 100, but when you equip the AUG, it stay at 90 fov (I use 4:3), but when I zoom in or ADS, the fov change back to what I set.

1:24 is now my wallpaper, thank you

Flashback to when my eyes hurt in that fov too far video

I would love a more detaild video of all the resolutions, pros and cons!

Oh man, that link to the video of Blinky Quake at the end of the video. I highly suggest people to check that out. There's some really interesting fov projections to experiment with in there.

CSGO had a FoV slider years ago, but they disabled it to counter issues regarding camera clipping. You could look through walls with super widescreens and high fov.

I think the most advantage you get out of stretched resolutions is when you are sniping/AUGing. When you scope in with a stretched resolution, you don't have any less horizontal FOV than normal widescreen, but you have a bit less black area around your AWP scope, or less blurred area around your AUG or SG, all the enemies are wider on your screen and move a bit faster, and you get to utilize more of your monitor and not having less FOV. A 17:20 resolution would completely remove black area around the AWP's scope.

4:3 stretched has a lower fov as the 16:9 but is stretched to the same size so you can see enemys better on 4:3

2:25 The top left resolutions. 16:9 supports other resolutions too such as 1366x768 and especially and obviously 1600x900

Playing at 4:3 stretched to 16:9 definitely makes the models wider, but unless you lower your horizontal mouse sensitivity accordingly, (with the m_yaw command) they're not actually easier to hit. Maybe easier to see, but the precision you need with your hands is the same if you don't change your mouse sensitivity at all.

There's also the stuff in between, for example I play with an aspect ratio of 1.81818181... Also you don't need a bigger monitor to increase fov, just need to keep changing the aspect ratio

The viewmodels need to be fixed for ultrawide screens. IIRC on some guns, while you reload, parts of your left arm would stick out onscreen for a few seconds (even on the closest viewmodel FOV).

... that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of misfortune or to take up arms against a see if troubles and by opposing end them.

3:57 Pavlov VR is pretty much exactly like csgo would be in vr

Linus Tech did a triple 21:9 setup and used CSGO as the litmus test

You missed a quite important ratio, 21:9 which was finally supported in the panorama update. I'm using it right now, and rarely, I do spot players that whoever I'm spectating do not notice, so it is a slight advantage. I'd guess the fov is at 120.

Ok ... can i use nvidia control panel with a custom res on a 16:9 to get higher fov???????????

What's that image at 1:20 I don't understand, people in the comments are saying it's a reference to his older videos

I use 4:3 because of the fov change. Things that are a long distance away are easier to spot and aim at because they seem closer

Ahhh cleganebowl, the mountain pokes Sandor's eyes out

Why does everything het further away in higher fov? Like 156 degreez fov seems so weird but irl we have 180 degreez fov but it seems so normal is it because counter strike man onlu has 1 camera or is it because our brains processing that information from our eyes?

If you notice the eye focus of a top tier pro or a really good player , youll notice that the player only focus on the actual crosshair all the time, occasionally temporarily focus in the hud/minimap at times. Having 4:3 ratio helps the focus while bringing the hud closer to the crosshair. A good player usually predict and have the crosshair where the enemies are going to appear so a wide monitor is just distracting. Maybe its just that most pros grew up with a boxy ratio though.

I remember having a 3 monitor setup in cs:source and the FOV got so big you could through walls if you strafed up to them.

really helpful video thanks

It'd be nice if CS:GO was like TF2, where you can get custom HUDs, the one I use has health and ammo fairly centered and it's so much better for getting crucial information quickly, though that game is more fast-paced, being able to see your ammo quickly and how much damage you've taken would be quite useful in CS:GO

i play on a 34" curved 21:9 with 1920x1080 stretched and find it very comfortable having both the wider models to hit and the field of view of 16:9

Ah Philip,spoil me with your informative videos

CS:GO does support 21:9 resolutions such as 3440x1440 and 2560x1080 flawlessly in my experience haven't had any hud cutoffs or something else since panorama update.

I would argue it is easier to track something with your eyes that appear bigger(broader) on the screen, aiming motions are very horizontal most of the time in cs.