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meeha2's avatar
meeha2
4 years ago

Graphics settings don't matter?

I just now tried to lower my graphics settings, ultra, high, medium, low. They don't give me an FPS boost. I do have the RTX enabled, but that shouldn't matter a lot, should it? I mean, DLSS and all that... I mean, I even tried to change the DLSS settings, and all that... Nothing seems to help! Did they do it on purpose? Or are they trying to force everybody to get RTX 30 series? Well... Here's my specs:

i7 8700K

32 GB of RAM (I have lots of stuff open in Chrome, so... Just in case, you know)

RTX 2080 by MSI

PSU 850W

As you can see, this rig should handle this game just fine on... ultra? Like, back in time, when I had 4690K and R9 290, I could play BF4 on ultra just fine. Like, yeah, it's been getting hot when I disabled the vsync, but... As soon as I enabled it, I had a stable 60 FPS and not so overheated GPU. Back in time, it was more than enough for me... Now, when I play this Garbagefield 2042, I get... Good if 50 FPS... It sucks that much! And like I said, changing the graphics settings don't seem to help! I bought the game on Steam, but that shouldn't matter. Like, yeah, I have to admit, I have a lot of programs open, but... 99.9999% of other games don't complain, only Garbagefield 2042 does!

Anyways, are there any recommendations on how to increase the FPS? Or at least, stabilize it around 60? I sort of don't want to play it, but... There's simply no good alternative to the franchise!

technical issues

20 Replies

  • OskooI_007's avatar
    OskooI_007
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    A i7-8700k is going to struggle to maintain 60fps in 128 player game modes.

    https://youtu.be/6fIf-C8UjWY

    The only thing you can do besides upgrading the CPU is play in 64 player game modes instead. Ray tracing taxes the CPU so turn that off too.

  • ATFGunr's avatar
    ATFGunr
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @meeha2It’s not you. I have friends with amazing rocket ships who still drop below 70 fps in 144mhz. The ray tracing is an issue, you should get a gain from turning that off. The visual difference between ultra and high is so negligible that I keep my rig on high. Google 2042 FPS settings and you’ll find lots of tips, including changing some settings in your video card (I have Nvidia so use Nvidia Control Panel, Radeon has their own version too). Google is your friend on this one. You may pick up a little, but the game seems very poorly optimized. Might help with it playing on older generation devices but doesn’t do anything new any favours. You can also check the load on your CPU, if it’s anything above 90% you’re looking at a new hip or start turning some background programs off. Chrome is a huge monster on your cpu, turn that crap off for sure. If you need, try Edge (I know, it’s crazy) it’s way less taxing on your CPU.
  • meeha2's avatar
    meeha2
    4 years ago

    @OskooI_007I think they got rid of the 128 player maps?
    @ATFGunrTried to disable ray tracing just now for a couple of seconds, got a bit of an improvement... Like 40-50 FPS, but still, from time to time, the game freezes...

    Overall, I don't think it's the engine or anything else, it's... Greed... Like, DICE wants cheap employees, and expects them to work... 80 hours/week... Working uber hard and under constant pressure. (I mean, I heard the veterans left because they refuse to work under constant pressure, and the new hires just don't know all the tricks of the engine)

    Also, Edge is based on Chromium, same stuff Chrome works from, so I don't think I'll have a decent FPS boost.

    Like I said, it's not the game to blame, it's the greed... The devs admitted themselves they chose the least buggy moments for the trailer, and they couldn't fix most bugs by release date, and now they're just starting to fix some stuff... How long it'll take? It'll be easier to just create a newer version of the game engine and start from grounds up a new game... And they did start a new game (not sure if on the same version of the engine or new or... whichever) but we'll just have to wait and see another... failure? I mean, if it'll be yet another catastrophe, I think like at least 50% of gamers will say good bye to the game and... EA just needs better management. Not DICE, but EA in general...

  • ATFGunr's avatar
    ATFGunr
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @meeha2 I don’t know anyone who plans on preordering, I can tell you that much. Between my clan mates and these forums, it’s going to have to be actually good or it’s going to sink like the carriers in BF1942.
  • meeha2's avatar
    meeha2
    4 years ago
    @ATFGunr Yeah, after preordering the Garbagefield 2042 I sort of regret it... And so the next game - will definitely not preorder. We'll see how deep they are diggin the hole for themselves, but for the next game, I'll watch TONS of reviews, will do my best to find TONS of videos with roughly the same config as my next comp will be, and overall, we'll see how bad it'll be. If, however, it'll be in a good condition (not in "acceptable", but good) I will probably buy it. If it'll suck just as much as Garbagefield 2042 (or even worse?), I will not. And something tells me most other players will do the same...
  • ATFGunr's avatar
    ATFGunr
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @meeha2 I’ve ridden out the troubles in 3, 4, and V. 2042 has been a complete disaster in comparison to those titles. I missed the hard start for BC2 thankfully. Those ones were good enough to hold the players to where it improved. This one took 8 months to get to a playable level, which is obviously too long looking at player numbers. It’s good enough now that if it had content, it’s be a good game. Still needs work, but it’s playable and relatively enjoyable, it’s just boring. There are lots of threads on that topic so I won’t flog a dead horse. A server browser would have saved it 4 months ago, players who had bought it would have come back. It’s too late and they’re not giving us one anyways, just seem to lack the courage to tell us.
  • meeha2's avatar
    meeha2
    4 years ago
    @ATFGunr 30-40 FPS and constant freezes is playable you say?!? OK then, no problem, forget about this thread and life's good... Sorry to bother you.
  • meeha2's avatar
    meeha2
    4 years ago
    @UP_Hawxxeye Just read the OP again please... But I'll try the settings tomorrow. But still, I don't think they'll change anything... If the game can't run on low settings... But I'll try, just to make you relax.
  • UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
    UP_Hawxxeye
    Legend
    4 years ago

    @meeha2I am also curious myself.
    I had a 1050 ti until yesterday and I run only on low settings to keep the game at 40+ fps
    Now I have a new 3060 ti with 100+ fps with mostly low settings 1080p and DLSS. No RTX yet.

    I will experiment with different settings to see how much I can increase them them without dipping bellow 60 minimum.

    the rest of my rig is 32 gb ram ( I also have too many tabs)

    and AMD 5800X