Really Poor Performance Issues - Top Spec PC (over £8k setup) - ~20fps

Why am I getting major performance issues on a top-spec PC? Even if I reduce the graphics quality settings, I get little to no improvement. Really, with the PC I have, I should be able to play this game at maximum graphics. I have no issues with any other recently released games, I can play pretty much any game at top graphics settings and get 100+ FPS even with Ray-Tracing enabled! It's just Battlefield 2042! It is terrible! Really bad laggy graphics, poor response from input controls, lagged mouse input, glitchy graphics, it really is terrible. Why release a game in such a poor state?

For Info, my PC is:

64Gb DDR-4 4000Mhz

4.6Ghz Intel i9 Extreme Edition 14-Core CPU (Watercooled)

ASUS Rampage VI Omega Extreme Motherboard

8TB NVME SSD's Samsung 970 PRO's

ASUS Strix NVidia RTX 3090 GPU

Windows 11 Enterprise

Trying to run at 4K on 4K Ultra-Wide Monitor. Even at Low or Medium Settings, Ray-Tracing Disabled. Average 20 FPS. And to top that off, the mouse latency/lag issues. My Mouse and Steelseries Apex Pro Keyboard and Steelseries Rival 650 Mouse (using cable).

Surely with a PC that cost over £8K to build should run this game at near maximum graphics? I've even tried overclocking my GPU to 2020Mhz and GPU Memory to 19612Mhz (which is a perfectly stable overclock for all other games). Nothing I try seems to resolve these performance issues. Not sure what else I can try.

I've tried disabling:

Origin Overlay

Windows Gaming Bar Overlay

NVidia Overlay

Disabled all screen capturing software and instant replay features. Attempted playing with all unnecessary services and applications stopped. I give up.

discussion

C0deBreak3r
4 years ago
After much messing around with settings, found that my CPU Core Cache Ratio Multiplier had somehow been reduced from 32X to 20X. Changed it to 40X and this seems to have solved the majority of issues. Still not able to run everything set to ULTRA at 3840x1600 Resolution, which, I would have thought should be quite easy for a system of this specification. At least managing a playable average of 40-50 FPS running at a mix of HIGH and ULTRA settings with RAY Tracing and DLSS set to Quality Mode. Hope that they issue a patch soon that will improve the performance of the game engine to allow me to achieve 100+ FPS with all settings at ULTRA. Although, planning to upgrade to Intel i9 12900K Alder Lake with DDR5 and an ASUS Maximus Z690 Extreme Glacier Motherboard very soon. Not many options available right now for upgrading GPU, will upgrade CPU and RAM first and then add a newer graphics card when they are released.

I do find it strange that only Battlefield 2042 seems to be affected by this setting. I’ve been playing Call of Duty and quite a few other games these last few days and they have all been running at Ultra Graphics and running at 100FPS or more.

22 Replies

BlurKiller
4 years ago
Something is wrong, my rig is less powerful than yours but even I'm not getting ~20fps on 4k Ultra.
I was just testing how much my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU so I ran 4k DSR on Ultra and did a benchmark, this was the result:
14-11-2021, 20:41:17 BF2042.exe benchmark completed, 12848 frames rendered in 206.594 s (DSR 4k Ultra w/ DLSS) Map: Renewal
Average framerate : 62.1 FPS
Minimum framerate : 47.4 FPS
Maximum framerate : 75.9 FPS
1% low framerate : 35.7 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 22.4 FPS
My setup: 16gb 3200hz DDR4, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, Nvidia RTX 3080
TheKIACowboy
4 years ago
@C0deBreak3r Doubt it's your GPU causing the low frame rate. When in a game press the key above TAB/left of 1 (Backtick on UK keyboard) which should open the console, then type "PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1" without the quotation marks. This will give you an FPS overlay which shows you how many FPS your CPU & GPU are processing along with frame times.

Not 100% sure on BF2042 but a lot of games don't use all of your cores, using single cores for specific tasks like script scheduling, most games should at least use multi-core rendering. Most likely your CPU is the bottleneck, causing low FPS, as single core performance on your CPU is not great if not overclocked, although that could also be caused by your RAM. Check if your RAM is running at the rated 4000MHz. Sometimes RAM needs to be overclocked to achieve those speeds & could only be running at around 2000MHz. If it isn't & you have 2x32GB (RAM works best in pairs) then this shouldn't be too hard to do. You'll most likely already have an XMP profile in your BIOS. If not & you bought extra sticks, even if the same make/model, they could have different timings which might cause them to run at factory speeds.
RipGroove99
4 years ago
For reference then:
I get a solid 100fps Vsync at all times.
All Ultra graphics settings
3440x1440 21:9 Ultrawide
11900k
3090FE
32GB RAM
Windows 10
M.2 SSD's
etc etc
TheFireOfTitan
4 years ago
@C0deBreak3r Your hardware is fine. This game is just horribly optimised.
People were abusing me when I pointed out the performance in Beta.
It's the same here. No improvement was done.

And the sad part, they made a whole blog post on the things they learned and are working on. Performance? Nothing. Not even an acknowledgment that this game runs bad.
TheFireOfTitan
4 years ago
@RipGroove99 I'm glad atleast its running good for you.

But someone here with a 1080ti said he can't touch 60fps on LOW! 1080ti is an amazing card. I don't get it.

I'm pretty sure DICE thinks everyone has a RTX card. The performance shows.

During a pandemic AND chip shortage! Whew.
R1ckyDaMan19
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Not as bad but similar, rtx 2080 ti pumping out over 100 frames, my i7 9700f is bouncing between 53 and 60 frames.
Currently running all low settings at 3440 x 1440 and have ended up capping it at 60 fps as I can't hit 100, can't even hit 80 sometimes.
RipGroove99
4 years ago
I knew my 1080ti's days were numbered when Red Dead Redemption 2 came out as it really struggled with that. With the shear scale of BF2042 it definitely needs some serious GPU horsepower to run well and look good.
I'd like to think that a 1080ti paired with a suitable CPU for all the physics in 2042 would run at 60+ FPS at 2560x1440 at Med-High graphics settings. Of course most BF games have a period of optimization after launch so I'm certain performance will get better after a few game updates.
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
i7-8700k @ 4.4Ghz
16GB dual channel DDR4 2933Mhz
GTX 1060 6GB
Dell 1440p 165Hz Gsync monitor
I'm getting a locked 80fps with all low settings and 50% dynamic resolution scaling, which comes out to 1080p resolution. You can see that in the green text at the top of screenshot.
None of my CPU cores are maxed out. If your frame rate doesn't go up when you reduce resolution then it's probably a CPU or DDR4 RAM bottleneck. Like maybe only running single channel RAM or perhaps not all CPU cores being utilized. Or bad RAM timings/frequency settings.
Also try running in Full Screen mode and the hidden setting in Windows 10 called 'Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling' also helps.
Posting a screenshot like this would go a long way towards troubleshooting issues. Such as why someone with a GTX 1060 video card is getting higher and more stable frame rates than some using with a RTX 3090.
Hint: It's probably not the video card causing the low frames, it's probably the CPU maxing out on one of it's cores.
iJeff729
4 years ago
This is interesting, and likely correct. It's usually a CPU problem when changing settings doesn't offer any change at all.
Baabbas
4 years ago
Poorly optimized is saying little.
I cant see a diference performance wise from changing from high to medium settings.
My specs:
Asus Maximus hero xii
cpu: 10700k Oc at 5.2 (stable)
Gpu: Asus strix 3080 Oc edition (stock for now)
ddr4: gskill 3600
Monitor: 1440p
between both settings with vsync on caped at 120 i get around 90 to 120 average, BUT i get lots of hicups sometimes.
I cant believe that with this set up I cant run the game with better settings.
And what is more mind blowing is that there is no difference in between the 2 settings....da f***?
I dont get my hopes up even when the new Nvidia drivers arrive.
I think this is really deep in game.
still, this game has a huge potencial, I hope Dice can pull it off the same they did with BF4.
they just need to get it done asap....
because the majority of the players will be arriving this friday.
pretty sure that it will break