How to fix drop FPS when smoke on screen in Counter Strike

I have a gaming laptop and my drivers are updated. Usually, I'm playing with 200+ FPS, but since the last CS:GO update, when a smoke pops on the screen I drop to 30-40 FPS. I'm playing with an AWP and when I zoom in it is horrible!

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Since the "one-way smoke fix" smoke effects have become extremely demanding on GPUs pixel fill rate.

Most likely the problem is the quite poor pixel fill rate (13.6 GPixel/s) of the GTX 765M. In comparison to the GTX 770 with 33.5 GPixel/s or even the 4 years old GTX 570 with 29.3 GPixel/s.

The only fix is to lower your resolution.

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You could try using a different DirectX level(Command Line Options)

-dxlevel  - Forces a specific DirectX version when launching the engine. This is useful if your graphics card is DirectX 9 capable, but a lot faster using only DirectX 8 (e.g. NVidia GeForce FX 5200). Multiply the desired DirectX version to use with ten. E.g. for DirectX 8.0 you would use -dxlevel 80. For DX9 there are three possible values depending on the Shader Model the graphics card supports. Seemat_dxlevel.

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