I have been facing a stuttering issue for 4-5 days in this game. It started out of nowhere, it stutters randomly and is quite frequent. I am wondering if anyone else is facing this problem and if there is a way to prevent it. What can I do to prevent this issue? I have played BF2042 for the past 6 months and have never faced this issue before. CPU is not overheating, so no throttling. It's also consuming 80 to 95% of RAM for some reason.Also tried to use User.cfg file process to limit CPU usage, but that also didn't work. P.S.: Other games are working fine, the stuttering issue is only occurring while playing this game. PC Specs:-CPU - AMD R5 5600xGPU - Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GBRAM - 16 GB

@Wrath_Unleasher @1201BCG 1. Set BF2042.exe to high priority (This setting causes the game to be recalculated first, which increases the FPS, and if the CPU is very heavily loaded, the game doesn't stutter due to queuing [I mean waiting for all other processes to recalculate before the CPU recalculates the game].)2. Turn on this below & restart PC (a reboot must be performed for the settings to be loaded.)3. Turn On XBOX Game BAR4.Ddo this as i attached in manual.jpg & settings.jpg5.Turn on Game Mode in Windows6.Look in the Nvidia GPU 3D settings for something like :GPU power management, if you have this, then set it to maximum performance for the game BF2042.exe.Sometimes the default setting for power management mode gets the clocks wrong (in the sense of turning on turbo mode too late etc).On Nvidia, changing from optimal power mode to adaptive mode helped me.7. In AMD/Nvidia GPU 3D set texture filtering mode to performance or high performance8. set FPS limit in GPU 3D Panel (If you have a 144 HZ monitor , set 144 FPS and if 120 hz then 120 fps etc.)9. Turn on Image Scaling10. After make point 6-9 restart PC (a reboot must be performed for the 3D settings to be loaded.)These points (1-9) what I described above improved my performance with BF2042 and not only with this game.11. If Above didn't helped, turn on thread optimalization in Nvidia 3d Panel (This will result in a slightly lower FPS, but will relieve your CPU which should fix the slutting problem) & Restart PC@1201BCG Fortunately you haven't changed anything in the bios, changing settings / updating the bios has no effect on the game.If you suspect instability of any component do a stress test , programs for this : Prime95 (torture stress) or RealBench (simple stress test) or others.During the stress test keep some HWINFO or other program open to check if something is overheating, the stress test uses 100% of the components, the game only uses about 60% even if Windows shows 100% (the stress test uses all the component calculation modes, the game only uses certain ones, so less power consumption during gaming).If you are completely unfamiliar with the stress test, ask an experienced colleague to do it for you, as there are few cases of someone damaging their PC with a stress test because, for example, they have too little cooling/ power supply 🙂 An experienced person will catch these things quickly, a layman not necessarily.I don't update either the bios or the system and everything works ok for me. I Update only GPU Drivers from time to time.GL

After playing the game for a while my game starts to stutter every few seconds really bad. It freezes for several seconds, lags, and just becomes a complete and utter stuttering mess. I've seen videos going back 2 years about this issues and it does not seem to have been resolved.... I've seen many videos on youtube with several 'fixes' tried them all and nothing works. Updated drivers, chipset drivers, bios version, uninstalled and reinstalled the game, deleted the profsav five, deleted the cache files, tried all the fixes I've seen posted and nothing fixes it https://youtu.be/JHTkjXrJTII?si=T4eDnDhQZzkk3Oi-My PCRyzen 5600x32gb ramNvidia 1070.M2 Nvme 500gb with 76gb free spaceRunning on low settings at 1080pEven if I restart the game it doesn't fix it, even if I restart or shut down my pc it doesn't fix it. The only way I can fix it is if I boot into my bios, only then does it fix it until it starts happening again. Not only does it affect bf2042 but it also messes up my pc causing it to lag and take ages to load things. Nothing else on my pc causes this to happen, no other games I play have this issue. I do not know what is causing it but it completely messes my computer up. And as I said the only way to get my pc running well again is to boot into my bios. Anyone have this problem? Anyone know the reason or a specific fix that actually works?

@Wrath_UnleasherHave you tried to clear your cache folder.To clear the game cache in Battlefield 2042, you need to. Go to C/Users/Username/Documents/Battlefield 2042 or just go to the Document folder on your system.Open the Cache folder.Click Ctrl + A keys together to select all the files.Right-click and select Delete to delete all the files.Give this a try first.P.S. This would be better in the tech support section!

@sk1lld wrote:@Wrath_UnleasherHave you tried to clear your cache folder.To clear the game cache in Battlefield 2042, you need to. Go to C/Users/Username/Documents/Battlefield 2042 or just go to the Document folder on your system.Open the Cache folder.Click Ctrl + A keys together to select all the files.Right-click and select Delete to delete all the files.Give this a try first.P.S. This would be better in the tech support section!Yep, tried that as well. Tried everything fix I can find. What I don't understand is how it continues to happen even after restarting the game and/or shutting down/restarting my PC. The only way to fix it completely is to restart my PC and boot into my motherboard bios.

@1201BCGHave you changed any settings in the BIOS prior to this issue?

BF2042 stuttering issue and high CPU, GPU & RAM usage

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Wrath_Unleasher
2 years ago
@1201BCG exactly what's happen with me!!!
DMGG1994
2 years ago
@1201BCG @Wrath_Unleasher
Perform 4k alignment ssd , it is something like HDD defragmentation, although 4K sector alignment is about that, it aligns all 4k sectors, so that the system has access to fast 4K write cells. 4K sector alignment does not move files, so you don't consume write cells.
Golden rules:
1. Disk defragmentation is not used on SSD drives (it does nothing except to consume more of the drive's write cells, - SSD does not have a data reading arm, also the physical arrangement of files will not do anything that occurs during defragmentation). Windows admittedly aligns the SSD itself during installation, although after a long time the 4K cells may need to be aligned again. You can find a ton of programs on the Internet to perform this operation.
2. Do not collapse SSD drives to full, the more data an SSD has (more in % occupied space), the slower it reads data. When critically full (70% or more), it can be much slower than traditional HDDs.

3. If your SSD is running very slowly despite the large amount of space (70% of the drive is free), then run a read and write test of the drive with CrystalDiskMark, for example. If the test comes out poor, then your drive is running out of space and needs to be changed before it enters 'read-only' mode. Also install CristalDisckInfo and check the total writes to the drive and see what TBW your drive has. If the write total is 200 TB and the TBW of the SSD is 250 TB, for example, then look for a new drive.
4. If you only have an SSD drive, you have to disable the pagefile paging file (it uses write cells very intensively and therefore quickly consumes the SSD drive, and can even overheat it). Pagefile is used by Windows, for example, when you fire up BF2042 having only 16 GB of ram (what it does not accommodate it dumps to Pagefile.sys). Disabling pagefile.sys when there is too little RAM can cause applications that require a large amount of RAM to shut down. If you have 2 drives (one SSD the other HDD) then create a paging file pagefile.sys on the HDD and disable it on the SSD.
@Wrath_Unleasher
Install the HWINFO software, turn on HWINFO in ,,sensors-only' mode and upload screenshots of the temperatures you have while playing (temps of all components including SSD disc).
Think about buying 16 GB of ram (with the same clocking, latency etc. - preferably the same pair of RAM as you have now)
GL
Solcetor
2 years ago
Do you have on-board graphics on your motherboard? If you look in device manager, display adapters, you may have 2 listed if you have on-board graphics. I have this same issue, i have onboard graphics and 7800xt. I think the driver is trying to run the game partially to on-board graphics with the latest driver 24.1.1.
LaGgY_42o
2 years ago
I replied with this to another post but I'm curious is this is you guy's issue as well, here's from the other post::
Try "Disable-MMAgent -mc" in Powershell, (launch Powershell as administrator) then restart PC. If that doesn't work just re-enable it with "Enable-MMAgent -mc".
Just spent the last week trying to figure the same out on my end, turns out Windows Memory Compression was compressing 2042 even with ample enough ram free, disabling it fixed my issue.
techb00mer
9 months ago
Ok, this is going to sound wild but I started to notice something recently.
If I rebooted my computer (not shutdown) after clearing my cache folder, I wouldn't get the issue (stuttering).
If I then shutdown my computer and start it up again, I would get stuttering.
If I rebooted my computer (not shutdown) I wouldn't get the issue.
On top of this CPU uptime would report days after shutdown. This is because of Fast Startup...I dont know WHY this happens, but ive been almost a week without stuttering (used to get it almost daily).
1. Close EA Play
2. Delete the contents of the cache folder (&localappdata&\BattlefieldGameData.kin-release.Win32\cache)
3. Disable fast startup:
How to disable fast startup in Windows 11 (xda-developers.com)
4. Reboot your PC
Give it a whirl, report back.
GenTurgson
8 months ago
Game runs buttery smooth at 150 FPS on Ultra or 200FPS with settings turned to Low. 2K Resolution.

PC Specs:-
CPU - AMD R9 7950x3d
GPU - Nvidia RTX 4070 TI Super 16GB
RAM - 64 GB
2K 170 Refresh rate Monitor
Windows 11 Pro

PC Temps while running game at Ultra 3d Turned on.
CPU - 57 Radiator Cooled
GPU - 53
MB - 50
CPU percent useage - 50%
GPU percent usage - 85%
Ram used during Game Play 25% But increases to above 37% after two hours.

PC Temps while sitting unsued
CPU - 39
GPU - 25
MB - 30
CPU Percent usage - 5%-4%
GPU - 0%
Ram used 9GB Normal things cached for internet browser stuff.

2TB NVME
2 500GB NVME secondary drives that are just used as storage for other things.

So it has just started to do this after the last patch. I think there is a Memory Leak somewhere. Only does it when I play for extended times of 2 hours or more.. Sometimes it does it sometimes it doesn't but more than not
it does it after two hours of play... Stops for a second and then continues... then starts doing it every 10 seconds... The whole PC locks for a second.

This is the only game that does this also. Skull and Bones doesn't and neither does New World from amazon. Just tried out a few games for a couple hours and they run buttery smooth.

Nothing has changed on my PC. I even did a BIOS Update from last month to this months new update to try that.
Morrdak
New Rookie
2 months ago
@Wrath_Unleasher wrote:
Did everything you told me, even cleared the cache folder, but the issue persists.
I too am having the same issue. I went through and tried all the fixes above and the studdering happens usually in larger lobbies but not all the time. What's odd is I can load BFV and I have no issue. Oh well...
Sh4dowMak3r
2 months ago
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Stutters-After-Latest-Update/td-p/14266742/page/2
Reported the same thing a month ago!.... still happening!

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