Gamescope is developed by Valve and none of these parameters gives you unfair competitive advantage. I’ve used gamescope for many years and never had an issue.
Gamescope does support Reshade effects, and I would not encourage enabling those.
I have edited my original title.
Sorry. Counter strike. I edited my original title.
Thanks for the input. I’ve expanded on this point and tried to explain how it works in my original post.
Without adaptive sync is still better than native resolution without gamescope, so I’m not sure why you’re so dismissive. I’m just trying to share a list of tweaks that made the experience better.
Adaptive sync + downscaled resolution with black bars + -noreflex + sane graphics settings in CS
This might have been partly true 10 years ago. A large majority of his audience is probably adult now.