The Original issue was fixed, I'm closing this thread to stop it from being necroed.
If you have any issues with Battlefield 2042 please make a new topic about your problems and what kind of steps you have tried to solve them.
/Atic
Amazing, I've set my Thread count to 7 instead of my default setting of 8 and haven't encountered a single stutter yet and its been butter smooth for the most part, with slightly better fps
This game is completely unfinished. Almost every system is broken.
@LeMairyHuffand where have u placed those values? Some .ini file in the in-game folder?
@RezisterAlso have a i7 9700k but with a 6900 XT. Can confirm that this actually did improve the game a lot by lowering it to 7. CPU isn't constantly maxed out now, improved fps and decreased stutter.
1440p ultra settings not below 70-75 fps up to 130 fps.
1440p low settings 90 fps and up
Edit:
To provide additional information i did test upscale to 4k.
Since 1440p ultra still won't use my GPU to 95-100% i tried the upscale to 4k and the fps was kinda the same. minimal 70 fps to like 110 fps (so only max fps was a bit lower than 1440p) GPU was at 95-100% all the time on upscale 4k and CPU usage only dropped by a few percentage.
@LeMairyHuffif I want to make the changes on my i7 4770k would I do the following as it is a 4 core CPU? And does the user.cfg get placed in the 2042 folder or the settings folder?
Thread.ProcessorCount 4
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 5
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
I didn't think 2042 would utilize a user.cfg file?
It does, for example i have:
Thread.ProcessorCount 8
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 7
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
If you go in-game, open console and write 'Render.drawscreeninfo true' you can see it changed the cores/threads.
@SixZer0Sevenyes, if you want to replicate the same onto a 4c/8t cpu. but the game recognizes threads, not physical cores, see ...screeninfo 1: it says cores, but these are threads. 8 threads -1 seems to stabilize fps fluctuations on 8c/16t cpus, but on 4c/8t the 8 threads are fully used by default already, and lowering them doesnt do anything (up to 4-3, when it gets to stutter even worse, logically), or worsens performance. thread.processorcount 6 and thread.maxprocessorcount 7 works equally on 4c/8t cpus, since these are threads, and 4c/8t or 8c/8t cpus have 8 threads anyway.
btw. you can also set thread.minfreeprocessorcount to -1 (= maxprocessorcount -1) or lower (important is the minus, this is counter-intuitive vs. what the command name suggests) to have 7 or less worker threads assigned. though, having 1-2 less threads assigned than physically available may still max out all threads, only 3+ less really offloads the last 1-3 threads, this is weird, and another hint that the engine somehow handles threads badly by altering threads resp. using more than are assigned.
still no fps boost in my testing, unfortunately :/
@WutlexCan you let me know what mine should be at from my previous post? Thanks
@WutlexI cant get it to work either - have these settings saved
Thread.ProcessorCount 6
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 7
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
I tried just making a notepad file, pasting the above in and saving it as user.cfg in both the Battlefield 2042 folder and Settings folder but still see cpu cores as 8 and threads as 8
@SixZer0SevenYour i7 4770k has 4 cores and 8 threads so you can't have processor count 6. Edit: you can thanks to @necropxhyte
Thread.ProcessorCount 4
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 7
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
Try that.
@WutlexThank you - was a little confused. Will try and see if I get any improvements. Thanks again
I have a i7-9700k and a 2070 super and what do you think my thread processor count should be.
@Wutlex you can, these are logical threads, not physical cores. i tried it out on my 4c/8t notebook just to make sure, see cpu cores: 8 & job threads: 7 on an i7-7700hq (4c/8t):
@WutlexSo after trying I cant get the job threads to display 7 - as CPU cores and Job threads both appear as 8 when putting drawscreeninfo into the console. It is entirely possible like you said this may not work for me
But I am also not sure if I am putting the file into the right spot. So far I have placed the user.cfg file into both the Battlefield 2042 folder, settings folder and also into Origin Games > Battlefield 2042
