Season 3 has created a very worrying problem with the CPU Usage. I took this in the middle of a match just about 10 minutes ago as of this post.

Last Season the CPU Usage was barely above 50%, but now I can't even stream this game to my friends on Discord because it eats up too much of my PC's CPU power.

I Really REALLY Hope The Devs Get This Sorted Out Soon.

@Foxfortgot some info
If you have 6/12 thread CPU - Thread.ProcessorCount 12 & Thread.JobThreadPriority 12
If you have 4/8 thread CPU - Thread.ProcessorCount 8 & Thread.JobThreadPriority 8
(Its the same for 8/8 thread CPUs # 9700k)
If you have 8/16 thread CPU - Thread.ProcessorCount 16 & Thread.JobThreadPriority 11 or 16 (not sure here.Havent test this.JobThreadPriority max should be 11 anyway. It might not have a difference)
If you have 4/4 thread CPU - Thread.ProcessorCount 4 & Thread.JobThreadPriority 4

You can set the two comands 12/12 or 8/8 but it will use 12/11 or 8/7 & so on. If not set properly you could have very low FPS. For ex. 12 on both comands while have 4 core CPU is bad. Ideally Thread.JobThreadPriority should be 1 less than the number of your CPU threads. 11 is maximum. You can check it with this comand: Render.DrawScreenInfo 1

@Foxfortgot some info
If you have 6/12 thread CPU - Thread.ProcessorCount 12 & Thread.JobThreadPriority 12
If you have 4/8 thread CPU - Thread.ProcessorCount 8 & Thread.JobThreadPriority 8
(Its the same for 8/8 thread CPUs # 9700k)
If you have 8/16 thread CPU - Thread.ProcessorCount 16 & Thread.JobThreadPriority 11 or 16 (not sure here.Havent test this.JobThreadPriority max should be 11 anyway. It might not have a difference)
If you have 4/4 thread CPU - Thread.ProcessorCount 4 & Thread.JobThreadPriority 4

You can set the two comands 12/12 or 8/8 but it will use 12/11 or 8/7 & so on. If not set properly you could have very low FPS. For ex. 12 on both comands while have 4 core CPU is bad. Ideally Thread.JobThreadPriority should be 1 less than the number of your CPU threads. 11 is maximum. You can check it with this comand: Render.DrawScreenInfo 1

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Hey everyone, 

To keep visitors of this thread informed, this post will be updated with new information once it becomes available. 

Update 24-11-2022:
We also have sent out a tweet regarding this issue.

Update 29-11-2022: 

I see a lot of posts where you all are trying to help each other by sharing workarounds that worked for some individuals, which is of course awesome in a lot of situations.

However, I would advise you not to mess with the settings file too much, as this may cause more problems than it solves. Everything you change in the settings file, and any consequences thereof, are at your own risk.

The teams are still investigating the issue and working hard on a fix.

Update 30-11-2022:
We have sent out a follow-up tweet.

Update 7-12-2022:

Today (with Update 3.1.0) we introduced a change which will further help balance the CPU load for most players. It can take a few gameplay rounds for these changes to come into effect on your system. However, if you are still experiencing CPU issues, please report it here in the thread. Battlefield Direct Comms tweet 🧵  link.

As mentioned previously, it is not recommended to make changes to the settings file, or any other cfg file. Especially now that Update 3.1.0 has launched.

I recommend that you undo any changes you made to the settings file, or cfg file (if you can still do that), and then check again if your CPU is at a constant 100% usage while playing the game.

If your CPU is still at a constant 100% usage after update 3.1.0 went live, and you have played a few rounds, please post a new DxDiag of your system.

Update 9-12-2022:

The teams have shared a potential workaround, that is also included in the Known Issues list:

\"As the game is now better optimized to draw resources from the CPU, if you notice throttling then try increasing your in-game visual quality settings and resolution to instead switch some of that load over to your GPU. We encourage playing around with your Settings to find out what works best for your specific system.\"

@Rokebo73Thread.ProcessorCount 8
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 10
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0

RTX 3080 12gb

DDR4 3600 32gb Ram

MSI Z590 Mobo

@Rokebo73Thread.ProcessorCount 8
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 10
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0

RTX 3080 12gb

DDR4 3600 32gb Ram

MSI Z590 Mobo

@Rokebo73I read that article, just don't really know the numbers I should put down?

Thread.ProcessorCount 8
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 13
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0

Thread.ProcessorCount 8
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 10
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0

^^was what I had before and still saw CPU spikes and input delay? So should I be LOWERING or INCREASING that second number?

I hope a fix is found soon, cause I really don't want to damage anything by doing these CPU edits

@Rokebo73I read that article, just don't really know the numbers I should put down?

Thread.ProcessorCount 8
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 13
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0

Thread.ProcessorCount 8
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 10
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0

^^was what I had before and still saw CPU spikes and input delay? So should I be LOWERING or INCREASING that second number?

I hope a fix is found soon, cause I really don't want to damage anything by doing these CPU edits

@RiggletsTTVMy CPU has 6 cores and 12 threads.

So I used values:
Thread.ProcessorCount 6
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 6
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 12

And the game is running with average ~77 % usage, rarely goes above 80%.

EDIT: Now I believe it's running with same usage as before S3, but can't really verify as I was not paying attention to CPU usage prior to S3. There was no need for me before to monitor it.

@RiggletsTTVMy CPU has 6 cores and 12 threads.

So I used values:
Thread.ProcessorCount 6
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 6
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 12

And the game is running with average ~77 % usage, rarely goes above 80%.

EDIT: Now I believe it's running with same usage as before S3, but can't really verify as I was not paying attention to CPU usage prior to S3. There was no need for me before to monitor it.

@Foxfort  What does GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount mean? =
the ammount of cores that will be used for BF2042

About Thread.ProcessorCount & Thread.JobThreadPriority commands. The value is your CPU thread number. My 7600k have 4 cores 4 threads so I put 4. Yours might be 6, 8, 12, 16 or more depending on your CPU.
For RenderDevice.RenderAheadLimit 1 for lower input lag, 2 is a nice middle between slightly more fps & lower input lag.

A lot of info you've thrown into there, got me confused.

So in my case out of 12 threads I've limited game to 6 threads and it works pretty well. This depends on user's CPU specs, so people should play around with values and find the balance.

So I presume game now gives each core one thread to deal with. I hope at least that's why it performs much better now.

From what I understood, we should not set same amount of threads as maximal amount of threads our CPU has. But at least 1 thread less out of our total number of threads.

Thanks for help with this !

EDIT 2: I've tested as well with threads 8 and 10 and I've noticed with 8 i get ~85% CPU usage, with 10 i get 95-100%.  While i did noticed a few more FPS with more threads, overall on my end using 6 threads out of 12 threads gives me best balance of performance and CPU usage, ~77%.   I've used Windows Task Manger to monitor this, since it's on my second screen.

@Foxfort  thats correct, ya just need to test what is the best core ammount for your system !
And if ya play around with XMP / DOCP then ya can get more or less performance.
Max hz is not always the fastest setting , its a combo of cpu (cores) / memory and gpu !!

Have fun , Game On !!!!

Ps a second screen takes also some FPS , i believe +/- 15fps !

For more performance only 1 screen is the best option !!

Thank you so much @Rokebo73  for this tweak with CPU, Game is now correctly split between all cores. I can't believe why it's not used by default.

Edit : We can use this tweak for all Battlefield game (like V & 1 ?) Battlefront II too ? 

@frank_le_tank_BE  Yes also for BF V.
I dont know if battlefront supports a USER.CFG , try it and you will see !

Everyone Post your User.cfg with brand and type of cpu ya use ! so others could take info (or use it) for/at their system.
But remember , best settings are done by your self , each cpu, mem , gpu is different , so its possible you need a whole new setting/approach with your user.cfg

Cheers!