Hello,Battlefield 2042's Anticheat uses more CPU (or rather the entirety) than the game itself.When you join any game, the Anticheat consumes the entire amount of CPU. You can't disable it in the task manager.CPU I5 13400k GPU 1080TiDoes anyone have a solution or do I have to wait until BF 7 to delude myself that the devs will stop killing the series?

@AntiCheatWard first of all, all pc gamers have been waiting for 3 weeks on a reply of any ea employee in a 175 page long ea forum about stuttering problems due to anticheats new update. Second of all it got to the point where some people even wanted to refund the game (including me) due to the fact that its just unplayable. Third of all we have been patient enough and our only hope were the patch updates, yet none of you looked into anything weve said and this just shows that its true. Here is a link if u dont believe me. Its unplayable and its disgraceful how long weve been waiting now. For the love of God roll back to the old anticheat or atleast make an update that works. https://youtu.be/0xvLY2Dndgw?si=EAitP3t5ru3MBvbi

@AntiCheatWard Finally we found profesional EA employe who start doing sometihng about it. Please just update us on the progress. In a separate thread, another EA employee left us 14 days ago without any response (we are working, checking and that's all). We feel like EA doesn't give a damn about us, but we are the same players as PS or Xbox owners. We just want to have fun playing your game.

Appreciate the additional information folks, some of that wasn't filtered over to me. It's clear my reply was a bit too off-the-cuff there relying on the information I received from others.We'll dig in soon, thanks.

@AntiCheatWard My English is bad, sorry for that.I just can't believe you did't know anticheat is the cause of stuttering.It has been almost three weeks. What a great example of interdepartmental communication.BF1, BFV, and FC(I only play these games) community all have the same stuttering problem. The only thing these games have in common is they both use ea anticheat., and The time communities starts to report the stuttering problem is about three weeks ago, which is exactly the time you guys released a silent update on anticheat. And the problem is not only happening on online modes.It seems not everyone has the stuttering problem, it works fine for some people.People who have games stuttering problem see same thing happens when they start the game: System or ntoskrnl.exe takes 100% usage on some CPU threads about every 10 seconds, and it lasts for 3 or 4 seconds. Please check and fix it,

@JonnyPT2001 wrote:@AntiCheatWardHonestly you got to be kidding!! And this is no time for kidding! If you guys paid attention to what people said you'd already seen that the stuttering and freezing happens either online or offline!!Look at this nice online mode (irony) called Squad Battles:https://youtu.be/0xvLY2Dndgw?si=EAitP3t5ru3MBvbiI never had any problem playing Fifa from 07 to 23, in FC24 anti cheat was brought in, the first weeks wasn't possible to play with my controller (anti cheat would give an error), and in FC 25 since the update 5 (and anticheat was updated too) the game is completely unplayable, either online or offline! And by what people say the hackers still there, so the only ones being affected are the people that just want to enjoy the game.If you want to defend the anticheat software defend it, but don't lie. It's been an absolute disgrace since FC24.@AntiCheatWard If you need more evidence there it is:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhGtRl3bFlc

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AntiCheatWard
EA Anticheat Team
10 months ago
Thanks for the additional information, we're investigating. This has been difficult to reproduce on our side and isn't consistent, but we've got a machine finally that can reproduce the issue and are digging in.
2BoiledEgg
10 months ago
Same, I posted on reddit to see if anyone else had the same issues. And after the mountain of unhelpful people who just told me to "Upgrade or Uninstall", a kind person redirected me here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/1g00mqe/is_there_a_fix_for_this/
The anticheat is straight up stealing resources from your game, no matter the configuration.
An anticheat service shouldn't need 33% of an 8 core CPU that is above the recommended spec. Just adding myself to the list of people online affected by this.
Specs:

i7 9700k
ASRock b365m
Phantom Gaming 4
16gb 2666 cl 13
GTX 1070ti
Grey_Coyote_TR
10 months ago
hii
I have the same problem as other players. How will EA solve this? We are waiting for an urgent update..
Sergio75p
Seasoned Novice
10 months ago
Same problen, CPU out of control.
2BoiledEgg
10 months ago
Update to my issue. My theory now is that windows is reading the games CPU percentage and showing it as the anti cheat software in task manager, since it's hooked onto the game.
Somehow it thinks that Battlefields CPU load is part of the Anti Cheats CPU load. Meaning that the anti cheat is not actually stealing resources from your PC.

My issue came down to me being so quick to blame your software, and not realizing that my monitors VRR is kinda out of sync with the game.Making it judder at below 70fps.
It's fine on other games, just not BF. Probably just my screen though.
Since I'm already here I'd love FSR 2 added onto the game! For us GPU bound Pascal and AMD card users at Ultrawide 1440p or 4k 🥹
Either that or a resolution slider with sharpness options. (The auto resolution option has been causing me massive fps drops)

I lowered my resolution and all of the problems I mentioned went away. (Game just looks blurry now, even with NVidia image scaling ontop)
Rokebo73
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
@2BoiledEgg Ya also need to realize that the hardware at youre system is "able" to run bf2042.
But your hardware also need to work realy hard to push out some fps at quality settings.
4k ya never will get at youre systems hardware, and even 1440p can be hard.
Its the next gen game (next gen "hardware" so to say)

Cheers and have fun !
2BoiledEgg
10 months ago
I agree! My system is definitely a 1080p only system. Up-scaling is heavily used in most games nowadays. I cannot wait to upgrade, just waiting on decent prices for a 4k card.(Praying 4080 drops to $700)
Same to you!
Rokebo73
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
@2BoiledEgg ia ya go for new system, then maybe wait for the 50xx serie gpu 😉
Or buy the 4090 if it is available <- many doll;ars ☹️
Make sure ya run 13th or 14th gen CPU , with NVME drives <- for read (load) speed during game gen 4 , or even gen 5 drive(s) with 1gb of even better 2gb storage.

Ya need some "dollars" for the top of the self hardware.

Cheers
AntiCheatWard
EA Anticheat Team
10 months ago
Hello all,

We deployed a new version of EA anticheat on Tuesday (Oct 15th) to all Battlefield users which should correct this issue.

If you're still seeing the issue, please ensure you've updated to the latest version of EA anticheat (1.0.7060086).

Thanks!
BaronVanDorf
10 months ago
I can now confirm that the new EAC update fixed the issue. Thank you for your efforts !

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