Cache folder stuttering

Please investigate the issue further. @Straatford87 

In all forums (Reddit, Steam, EA Forum) the reports about FPS problems and stuttering are piling up. I am affected too. Patch 1.1 broke something. Maybe Caching is broken.

For Example: After 1.1 my fps went from 90+ to 45 avg - Answer HQ (ea.com)

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@Straatford87 wrote:

provide full read/write access to your Documents\Battlefield 2042\cache folder

As a side note, if your Documents folder is automatically syncing with OneDrive then it can also cause an impact to performance.

 

 

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Can we pretty pretty pretty please not do this :-(

Protected folders (ie Documents) should be treated with care. Storing cache data and also allowing applications full write access to those folders goes against some pretty basic security fundamentals. Windows by default synchronises this folder, and protects its access these days so it would be awesome to not have to do this.
Can we pretty please with sugar on top move cache data away from Documents and into AppData or similar <3

If anything, not having OneDrive sync all those files would be a good start:
Cache being saved to documents, which gets synced by Onedrive - Answer HQ (ea.com)

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[Found two problems that I will mention at the end]

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[I don't have Onedrive and its folder after the uninstall is empty, so not saving or copying stuff in there]

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Today, 14 August, with 5900x + RTX 3070 Ti + 360hz G-SYNC Monitor still micro-stuttering all the time -> this thing happens only in BF2042.

A thing to mention is that in the folder C:\Users\myName\Documents\Battlefield 2042\cache

the game continuosly saves files in there and I don't know if this is normal.

I am playing from a week now and if I play Zero Hour Breakthrough all day long with only 2 maps -> the game still save cache files in that folder.

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[In Game][note 1]

The SSD constantly Reading around 30MB/s, arriving sometimes up to 350MB/s

and

Writing is usually low, can be 2 or 3MB/s or zero.

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BTW I found 2 problems,

- one with Nvidia Driver Settings

- one with a Windows Setting.

.Nvidia Setting Problem:

If I set in the nvidia control panel the "Shader Cache Size" = Unlimited, the SSD Reading and Writing will be higher by a lot,

so now, after I set it back to "Driver Default" the SSD r&w are like before mentioned in [note 1].

.Windows 11 Problem:

This problem happens only with this game and it is the following one:

If I turn off, as I usually do on all my PCs, the Sleep Mode -> File Paging will go crazy when you play this game and it will never go back to 3000mb

but still remaining to 8/9k of file paging.

When you turn on again the Sleep Mode -> with normal use of the PC you will have 3000mb as suggested by the OS, in game it will be higher BUT now after you turn the game off it will go back to 3000mb as it should be/ suggested by the OS.

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I have also unchecked in Indexing Options the Documens Folder to avoid that costantly these new files created in cache folder can slow the performances....

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Nothing to do, still stuttering all the time with 5900x and rtx 3070 ti... going on COD or BFV...

Clean cache, clean origin cache, reinstall the game, win11 clean install... nothing work, it's the game... now way...

Why do you insist saving in the documents folder when that is not the recommended method? Is saving to the AppData folder a major change? 

Please move it to %APPDATA% where it belongs.
Onedrive is causing stutter because of the syncing of this folder.