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3 years ago
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100% CPU Usage

Recently when i run Battlefield 2042, it now uses 100% of CPU causing lag, bad frames etc... I think this is because of the patch not 100% sure.

Either way I'm using a Ryzen 5 3600XT which is above the minimum requirements-(AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Core i5 6600K) and above the recommended requirements-(AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, Intel Core i7 4790). (Does not do this for any other game and through some research many others are finding this issue).

please help fix this because I'm 99% sure this isn't my pc.

  • @TEBatray I found the issue. turns out in my bios i had the RAM speed on auto and it automatically had it on 2600Mhz. I have changed this back up to 3200Mhz now it runs at 60-80% so much better.

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  • @TEBatray I had this problem since launch, the only thing that helped me was setting the cpu to 99% max usage in energy options of windows, the cpu is a bit slower this way but the game runs fine now with only 70-90% usage and does not peak at 100% anymore and causing lags/heavy frame drops. I still don't understand why this happens and the loss of around 1ghz per core through the missing OC would come handy at 128 player maps, but well, it runs now fine...
    I tried everything else and the system ran always perfect at ANYTHING besides this game but nothing else helped besides the energy option.

    if you want to try this , google "maximum ghz processor registry" and look for the option you need to add to registry so windows shows up this option.
    Just be careful, the option is not hidden by default without reason, if you set it wrong unknown things might happen(like when you set processor speed to 10mhz or sth. it could be ugly to get it back to defaults)
    afterwards you can set "maximum perfomance of processor" to 99%
  • @TEBatray I found the issue. turns out in my bios i had the RAM speed on auto and it automatically had it on 2600Mhz. I have changed this back up to 3200Mhz now it runs at 60-80% so much better.
  • Same issue here! Ram is set to 3200 and still having cpu usage 100%. Keyboard latency is horrible too! Never had these problem´s on my system before this last update. So it is NOT on my hardware. The game is literally not playable.

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    TEBatray
    3 years ago
    @HcTissiposki yeah mines the exact same now after their new updates
    its just throttling i gave up the game all i want is a refund tbh
  • every single battlefield has a problem with high cpu load, 2042 from the last update just destroys the cpu....fix your game DICE/EA

  • @TEBatray
    battlefield is one of my favorite games, but unfortunately the dice people don't care,they destroy the game.....

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