The game is poorly optimized and poorly coded to begin with.
I get anywhere between 50-75 fps depending on what´s happening in the game (maybe 80 if i´m standing still looking at a wall) @1440p. I have a Nvidia 3090 (that is running at like 25% memory in BF2042, wtf) and a very stable overclocked 8700K @5Ghz that runs flawlessly. I have to run everyhing on "low" to get usable fps. I should have 100 - 120 fps without problems on medium or high settings with my hardware.
Now the funny part is that the game bugged out once when i joined a Rush server...
All of a sudden there was just me on that server, no other players, no bots, no nothing. I decided to have a go anyway just to see the performance difference. I was constantly at 120 - 130 fps regardless of what i did. So adding other players murders the fps. I understand that it has an impact, offcourse it does there is more to render, but cutting it in half? Poor coding/optimizing for sure.
@SgtHLWatch the video then comment ... The ignorants claims about how coding work is astonishing ...
@SgtHL wrote:[T]here was just me on that server, no other players, no bots, no nothing. I decided to have a go anyway just to see the performance difference. I was constantly at 120 - 130 fps regardless of what i did. So adding other players murders the fps. I understand that it has an impact, offcourse it does there is more to render, but cutting it in half? Poor coding/optimizing for sure.
This suggests to me that one major determinant of performance is networking and how the client handles that data. If the CPU has to wait for a network update before it can send a render request to the GPU, beefing up your GPU won't do anything except allow you to turn the settings higher at the same framerate. Futher evidence of networking as a bottleneck is the markedly better performance on 64-player game modes.
I believe that's actually mentioned in the video, which came out soon after the release of 2042. The patch notes (IIRC) for one of the first patches mentioned the "quest" for optimisation, which suggests to me that DICE don't actually see that many obvious routes to improve the client performance. It's gotten better, sure, but some bottlenecks cannot be addressed by increasing core counts, cache, overclocking or more GPU grunt.
Hi,not meaning to be "that guy" but a 8700K is a absolute dinosour,only a madman(IMO) would pair that with a 3090,lol.
