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Battlefield 2042 - Update #3

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Straatford87
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4 years ago
No-Pats, Update #3 will be available on December 2. We’ve enjoyed seeing you join us on the Battlefield since launch, and would like to thank you for your continued feedback.  With this update ...
Published 4 years ago
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Movi37's avatar
Movi37
4 years ago
@Straatford87 What about the performance issues? This is the most important topic! If half of the player can't play the game because of severe frame drops or in general too low fps, it doesn't make the game any better, even if you bring new features! I'm not interested in new templates for portal or weekly mission as long as I have to play the game with 30fps and a CPU on 100% workload!
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Ahhnuld
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Movi37 I know its not what you want to hear, but the issue isnt the programming as much as it is the hardware abilities. You have to beef up your system. If therer is a game I want, I take the recommended specs, and double it. Most rigs have a shelf life of about 5 years, and you can still upgrage some components to improve performance as newer more resource demanding games come out. Its the price you have to pay for all the great eye candy and realistic graphics.
  • CelahiR-SWE's avatar
    CelahiR-SWE
    4 years ago
    @Ahhnuld The youtuber levelcap has the best gear you can have on PC and he is playing on low and barely hits 100. So no, the game has worthless optimization
    • Ahhnuld's avatar
      Ahhnuld
      Seasoned Ace
      4 years ago

      @CelahiR-SWENot disagreeing on the games shortcomings, they are evident, but Levelcap has other varibles that we clearly dont know about. I am running an fairly beefy box and run at ultra settngs. I have very acceptable FPS and no lag. Now that does not keep the game from crashing to the desktop or having the graphics completely corrupt to where I start t see my character from a third person persepctive with the head missing and I can no longer control the direction he goes, followed by a crash to desktop. But 99% of the time, it works OK.

      • CelahiR-SWE's avatar
        CelahiR-SWE
        4 years ago
        @Ahhnuld And as for the graphics settings, i gain maby 10 fps between low and ultra. That is not how it is supposed to work.
  • Movi37's avatar
    Movi37
    4 years ago
    @Ahhnuld Sorry but I definitely don't agree. There are tons of examples of people who have the best system (rtx3090/32gb/best cpu) that doesn't work. On the otherhand there are people with an old GTX1060 and have no problem at all. They have definitely a problem at the core of the game.
    I 'm working in the IT and therefore I have a little know-how in this topic.
    I don't have the best system, but I'm far over the minimum specs. And to be honest, the game doesn't look that much better than BF5 and there I have zero issues with over 100fps. And by the way, the same goes for COD Vanguard and Halo Infinite which look at least as good. No problem at all.
    Anyway, at least for the moment I've finished with this game. I went to COD Vanguard (the first time ever I play COD) and I love it.
    • Ahhnuld's avatar
      Ahhnuld
      Seasoned Ace
      4 years ago
      @Movi37 I appreciate your viewpoint, and like you, been working in the IT industry for a very long time, and building my own PCs when the Pentium 100 was out.

      I am sure you will agree that initial reports miss a lot of details on those monster systems that people have. I have one of those systems (rtx3090/32gb/best cpu) and run my settings on ultra with FPS averaging about 115. It does drop to about 75-85 if I enable Ray tracing, but the performace hit isnt worth it to me, although I honestl dont see lag or other issues.

      You can also have a great rig, but if you are not using cables and a monitor capable of keeping up the refresh rate, you will see the problems in performance. Mine is a 38 inch Gsync-ultra capable and runs at 144hz. There are smaller monitors that can pump out 250hz

      Now I never said that the code could not be optimized. I do agree that it appears this game does not take advantage of multiple cores, and it has far more bugs and missing capabilities that I honestly never expected to be allowed in a production release.

      So, my short answer is still that hardware can cure some ills, but you cant be running a ton of processes on a dirty OS and you need to remember that the monitor plays a more inmportant part these days than in the past.