Game continues to use 100% CPU since Season 3 update, now in Season 4

@BaptLiveDon't hold your breath. We've been waiting for a patch since they broke the game via Season 3 last November...

Getting 100% usage since Season 4 patch. This is causing the game to be unplayable as Keyboard inputs often lag behind and make my player move after I let go of the key making me walk into the open. This needs to be addressed as a priority over anything else right now. Asking in-game chat it seems many have the issue without knowing about it until I ask if they are having movement issues, they check the CPU usage and sure enough its at 100%. Already at Ultra settings at 4k, but pushing above 4k using Nvidia DSR reduces CPU by around 5% making it bearable but reduced performance.

DXDiag attached.

RTX 4080

i7 9700k

16Gb 3600Mhz RAM

W11

PSU 750w

Hello! Perhaps you can help me too ? I created a user.cfg where the processor threads were the value 6 and tried the value 8 and even 4, sometimes this helped solve the problem, but still the general background often adds up to an increased TN parameter. I thought maybe you'd see something else that I could try to change.

I decided to see if the same problem happened on my gaming laptop. (See DXdiag.txt attached) The same thing happened. Input lag every few minutes for a couple of seconds. Mind you, I have never installed BF 2042 on my gaming laptop, I don't play FPS games on it, so it was a fresh install.

So, I use GeForce Experience on both my desktop and laptop.  On my laptop, there is a setting for "whisper mode" under the settings.  I set it to whisper mode and what it thought were the optimal settings for my laptop.  Mostly things on high, some ultra, and a few mediums.  In the game, my CPU usage was down to about 60% and the game ran smoothly at 40 FPS.  I then translated those settings to my desktop by moving the PROFSAVE and PROFSAVE_profile files to my desktop.  No luck, CPU usage is still at 95+%.  But maybe it has something to do with power settings for the CPU and GPU?

Reverting to windows 10 to see if my performance will go back up, because this and some other games have been stuttering bad.

Bf2042 was good the first day or so after i upgraded. Not sure what happened had the nvidia driver crash after it did the latest update on windows 11 22h2.

Reinstalled drivers with ddu in safe mode and used the latest nvidia drivers but therr was like a cyclic stutter, for a moment I'd get good fps and then probably 3 seconds of unresponsive controls but frames still running.

Tried turninf rebar and above 4g decoding off in bios. Not surr what else to do besides restoring win10.  It just finished guess I'll  give it a whirl.

It was Windows 11 that was the culprit. Definitely will not be installing the optional 22h2 update for windows 10 either.

Hi everyone,

Please note that if you have an Nvidia GPU and if you have updated your GPU drivers to version 531.18, there's a bug in those drivers that also causes at least +10% CPU utilisation.
Known Issue - Nvidia Drivers - Version 531.18

Nvidia is working on a hotfix. Once it is available, we will post an update in the above-mentioned thread.