Game Freezing and Random Times

@jkrbdota 

What CPU do u have & what is CPU usage in % while gaming?

Use your graphics control panel (AMD/Nvidia) to limit the maximum FPS.

Example: If you have a 144hz monitor, then limit the number of FPS from 144 ÷154 FPS (set the same limit as the refresh rate or enter max +10 FPS more from the HZ of your monitor). If you don't know how to do this then just enable vertical sync in the game (it sets the FPS limit the same as your monitor's refresh rate)

In my opinion, you have serious FPS dropping (the game is demanding when it comes to CPU , if the CPU reaches 100% computing power while playing (it is clogged) then the game for a while "freeze" until the CPU recalculates all other processes in the queue.

You can mitigate this by changing the priority for the bf2042.exe application to high priority. (Then the game will be first for CPU recalculation).

The FPS limit relieves the CPU, because the more FPS the CPU has to recalculate, the more it is loaded.

If you have Nvidia graphics, then enable the option below (look screen) in the 3D control panel and reboot the PC. You will have less FPS in the game, but it will relieve the CPU, which should eliminate the error you describe.

GL

I have an i9 10900k

radeon 6800xt

32gb ram

165hz 2k monitor

i was running the game with vertical sync enabled

@jkrbdota 

With such a powerful CPU, there is unlikely to be a problem in the form that it does not perform with the game BF2042

But just out of curiosity, check the CPU load when playing BF2042.exe (only not through task manager - it shows nonsense 🙂 ,

Use a program that shows OSD while playing called Intel PresentMon (the only program that works in games with EA Anti Cheat xd) , or use AMD overlay, there it should also show CPU load while playing.

In nvidia, I solved the problem you described after by changing the power mode in the Nvidia driver settings (See screen 1.png). In the default mode i.e. Optimal Power Nvidia were badly synchronizing clocks and power consumption , so that when there was a sudden spike in action (which in games occurs practically all the time), the game would cut me.

After changing to Addaptive mode, everything works perfectly.

Check if you have any power modes on AMD at your place, if so, tinker with them, for starters try selecting maximum performance (clocks going non-stop at max clocks), if that has an effect then try other power modes

GL

I saw a thread saying to install it on a different drive so I reinstalled the game on my m.2 drive that I usually only use for windows, all of my games are always on my backup SSD.

So far, no crashes...

@jkrbdota 

You should not install games on the system C partition: , and should not fill up more than 50% of the SSD. The more full the drive is, the slower the transfers 🙂 . Some drives slow down a lot (become even slower than HDD), and some hardly feel it - it all depends on how the manufacturer designed the SSD.

HDDs are not affected by the % of space used, but the zone in which the data is located has an impact on the transfer; the screen below shows which zone has the highest transfer rate and which has the slowest read and write transfer rate.

Source : Ultimatedefrag manual

I have BF2042 on HDD in the efficient transfer zone and upload before the battle starts 🙂 On the C: drive I have only the system and programs.

For me an SSD is an unnecessary expense and quite risky. With HDD you can easily recover data after a crash, with SSD the chance of recovery is 10% (I mean physical damage), only installing the system on SSD has its justification and specialized software such as Autodesk Inventor, where every second matters.

But with this power consumption mode in GPU justr try. I discovered it on a Geeforce GTX 1060 when it was shearing all my games :P

GL

Well I had another crash this morning so that wasn't the issue.

I'm still stuck.

I've fixed the refresh rate to 120hz and reduced the graphics settings to medium.

Had 1 game at it was stable with no crashes.

I'm assuming it will probably freeze again. So annoying.

@jkrbdota 

Check the real-time CPU load during gaming in BF2042 to eliminate a potential cause. Also check temperatures to see if your CPU is throttling.

GL