BF2042 stuttering issue and high CPU, GPU & RAM usage
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.
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
Even 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?
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!
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.
Have you changed any settings in the BIOS prior to this issue?
Not change anything, I've reset all settings to default. Nothing in the bios should affect the game though. Maybe if I overclocked my RAM, GPU, or CPU that might cause issues but non of the other settings should cause issues.
(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 BAR
4.Ddo this as i attached in manual.jpg & settings.jpg
5.Turn on Game Mode in Windows
6.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 performance
8. 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 Scaling
10. 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
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.
@DMGG1994 Thanks for the info, I have tried all of this and it still happens. The game runs great most of the time no problems.
Just every now and the this problem happens, the game just starts stuttering and freezing for a few seconds here and there.
Thing is when it happens it messes my pc up and make it slow and laggy even after closing the game. Shutting my pc down or restarting it fixes my pc getting slow and laggy but if I load the game again the problem is still there.
It is only when I restart and boot into my bios, save and exit, and the boot back into Windows does it fix the problem with the game.
I have no idea how once it starts happening, even after turning off my pc completely it continues to happen when I turn it back on again and load the game up again.
Only way I can fix it completely is by going into my bios and the into windows.
Make more free space on disc SSD. SSDs do not like to be filled beyond 60% , they like to slow down a lot. Move unnecessary files to another drive to restore the SSD's fast performance.
Having only 76 GB of free space is critical value.
@sk1lld Did it, worked fine for a game with minor unnoticeable stutters, but then started again from second match.
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