CS2 Pro Settings and Configs: Sens, DPI and Resolution of Top Players (November 2026)

CS2 pro settings change more often than most guides admit, so this page lists the sensitivity, DPI, eDPI, resolution and aspect ratio of nine top players as of November 2026, with the date of each listing. Every value comes from the players’ Liquipedia pages, which cite the players themselves, their streams or tournament setup videos. You will also find what the numbers have in common, how to copy a pro crosshair after the September 2026 update, and what happened to the CS:GO configs this page listed in 2022.

For two players we keep full breakdowns with viewmodel, crosshair and gear: donk’s CS2 settings and ZywOo’s CS2 settings. If you want the skins from their screens as well, you can trade for them on SkinsMonkey.

CS2 Pro Settings Table: Sens, DPI and Resolution (November 2026)

We picked current stars whose settings have a dated listing from the CS2 era on Liquipedia. ZywOo and donk were HLTV’s two best players of 2025, molodoy ranked 6th, frozen 8th, XANTARES 14th and NiKo 18th. broky and Jimpphat made the HLTV top 20 in 2024, and kyousuke plays next to NiKo on Team Falcons. The last column shows when the listing was last dated, so you can see how fresh each line is.

eDPI is your mouse DPI multiplied by your in-game sensitivity. It is the number that lets you compare players on different DPI: NiKo on 1600 DPI at 0.45 and frozen on 400 DPI at 1.7 end up close, at 720 and 680 eDPI.

Two notes on the table. Our ZywOo settings page tracks a drop from 2.0 to 1.9 in September 2026 (760 eDPI), which his Liquipedia listing does not show yet. Several other HLTV top 20 players, including ropz, m0NESY and sh1ro, are missing because their Liquipedia mouse listings were last dated in the CS:GO years, and we did not want to pass old numbers off as current ones.

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Sensitivity: Most Pros Play Between 600 and 1,024 eDPI

The nine players in the table go from 600 eDPI (Jimpphat) to 1,024 (kyousuke), and the median is 800. In CS2 one full 360 turn at 800 eDPI takes about 52 cm of mouse movement. At 600 eDPI it is about 69 cm, and at 1,024 about 41 cm. Every one of them needs a large mousepad and aims mostly with the arm.

400 DPI is still the most common choice: six of the nine use it. donk and kyousuke play on 800, and NiKo is the outlier on 1600 DPI with 0.45 in-game. Higher DPI with a lower in-game value gives the same eDPI, so pick the DPI your mouse tracks best and adjust the in-game number.

If you play at 2,000 eDPI or more, do not jump to 800 in one evening. Lower it in two or three steps, play Deathmatch at each step, and use our CS2 practice config on an offline server to get used to the new speed on real angles.

Resolution: Why 4:3 Stretched Still Wins

All nine players use a 4:3 resolution. Six play on 1280×960, and frozen, XANTARES and NiKo go lower to 1024×768. Eight of them stretch the image to fill a 16:9 monitor, which makes player models look wider. frozen is the only one who keeps black bars at the sides, so the picture keeps its original proportions.

The price of 4:3 is a narrower field of view: you see less of the screen edges than on 1920×1080. Many players accept it because models look bigger and a lower resolution usually gives more frames on the same PC. If you want to test it, set the resolution and scaling in Settings, Video, and change only that for a week so you can tell what made the difference.

Crosshair, Viewmodel and Launch Options

We do not list crosshair codes in the table. Liquipedia’s codes for these players were saved before the September 2026 update, when Valve moved crosshair length, thickness and gap to real pixels and changed the share code format, so those codes are not the crosshairs the players use today. Our crosshair update breakdown explains both changes.

The reliable way to get a pro crosshair is to copy it yourself. Open a recent match of his team in GOTV or a downloaded demo, open the scoreboard, right-click the player and choose to copy his crosshair. Then open Settings, Crosshair/Scopes and paste it under Import. Our CS2 crosshair settings guide lists every style and command if you want to adjust it by hand.

• Viewmodel. donk and ZywOo both use viewmodel_fov 68 with the gun moved lower on the screen. Our viewmodel guide explains each command.
• Launch options. -tickrate 128 does nothing in CS2, because matches run on sub-tick servers. Our launch options guide lists the ones that still work.
• Console commands. For everything else, from FPS counters to network graphs, keep our list of CS2 console commands at hand.

What Happened to the CS:GO Pro Settings From 2022

In May 2022 this page listed the CS:GO pro settings of five players. Their sensitivity and resolution are below as we published them then, with where each player is now according to Liquipedia.

Mouse values carry over from CS:GO to CS2 one to one, because both games use the same sensitivity scale. A large part of the old configs does not. The 2022 launch options used -tickrate 128 and -novid, which CS2 ignores. The bob commands, viewmodel_recoil, the rate and interp commands, Multicore Rendering and Uber Shaders come from CS:GO and have no effect or do not exist in CS2, and cl_righthand was replaced by cl_prefer_lefthanded. If you still run a 2022 autoexec, clean it before you copy anything from it.

NiKo is the clearest example of how much a setup can change. In 2022 he played 400 DPI at 1.51 (604 eDPI) on 1280×960. His current listing is 1600 DPI at 0.45 (720 eDPI) on 1024×768 stretched.

How to Copy Pro Settings Without Ruining Your Aim

• Start with resolution and crosshair. They do not depend on your hands, and you can tell in a few matches whether you like them.
• Move sensitivity last and slowly. Pick a pro whose eDPI is close to yours, not the one you watch most.
• Change one thing per week. If you change sensitivity, resolution and crosshair on the same day, you will not know which change helped.
• Check the date. Pros adjust their settings during a season. A listing from 2024 may not match what a player uses at the next event.

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The Skins on Pro Screens

Settings are half of what people copy from pros. The other half is the inventory. We ran donk’s and ZywOo’s Steam accounts through our free CS2 Inventory Value Checker in October 2026 and wrote both up in donk’s CS2 inventory and ZywOo’s CS2 inventory. The three skins below were their most valuable weapon and knife finishes on those days. Prices are SkinsMonkey prices at the time of writing (November 4, 2026).

Both players hold more than these three. donk owns a Factory New AWP Dragon Lore and an AK-47 Wild Lotus, and ZywOo owns Sport Gloves Ultra Violent. You can open donk’s inventory or ZywOo’s inventory in our checker and see today’s value, or paste your own Steam profile link to compare. If one of their skins fits your setup, you can trade for it on SkinsMonkey with instant bot trades.

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Bottom line

Copy a pro's resolution and crosshair first, and move to his sensitivity only in small steps.

The nine pros in our table agree on more than they differ: 4:3, mostly stretched, between 600 and 1,024 eDPI. If your setup is far from that, resolution is the cheapest change to test, because it does not depend on your hands.

Sensitivity is personal. Pick a player whose eDPI is close to yours, check the date of his listing, and copy his crosshair from a recent match instead of an old code.

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