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 ...
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@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.
In general it is recommended to have the settings on low if one wants optimal gameplay.
Even with good frames per sec, the extra stuff often impair visibility.
In any case this might help
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/battlefield-2042-pc-performance-best-settings-high-fps/
- @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.
@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
since patch 1.1.0 the game has again some issues which were already fixed and causes a performance drop.
Also comparing BF2042 with older battlefields is not working when you count in the 128players with all BF before had max 64 players
So, 128 players are doubling the load which your CPU needs to calculate and the network traffic which is generated is much higher because more information needs to be transferred.
So that’s why changing the graphics setting will not influence it so much as you expect because the CPU is the main bottleneck and sometimes also the network traffic.
I have an i7-10700, RTX2070, 32GB Ram and use win11, I got constant 60FPS on 1080p, VSync on, Ultra Setting, RTX OFF and DLLS OFF. I had a smooth and stable gameplay.
But since patch 1.1.0 I have some fluctuations in the FPS with around 5 to 10 fps sometimes (using DLLS don’t change anything for me)
This unstable fps only kicks in after the first match (it starts with the end screen showing up for the three outstanding players...) and after this it stays for the whole session.
Also, since 1.1.0 it doesn’t matter for me if I play 128 player conquest or 64 players Breakthru. The behaviour of unstable performance is in both modes the same for me (since 1.1.0)
If you have a second monitor, you should try and watch a YouTube video beside gaming BF2042.
After some point the video gets laggy up to the point that video is freezing and you only hear the audio. Sometimes it refreshes when you get killed and respawn.
At the moment they only changed Breakthru from 128player to 64player which i can understand (balance was awful) but if they get rid of the 128player maps for conquest they will lose me as a customer for sure, this was one of my main reasons to buy BF2042.
It’s a simple cpu bottleneck and no amount of lower settings will help.You simply don’t have the cpu horse power to simulate 128 player games and push the card at the same time.
- @emerson1975 What the article I linked earlier mentioned that BF games like 2042 do a lot of simulations for physics etc which is more CPU demanding, more cores help more in BF than many other games
@emerson1975 wrote:It’s a simple cpu bottleneck and no amount of lower settings will help.You simply don’t have the cpu horse power to simulate 128 player games and push the card at the same time.
Whats a good CPU for 128
@GrizzGolfAll depends on budget
On the cheap side I would look at a ryzen 5600 or intel 12400 then on the expensive side it would be the 12900k they would all be just fine with battlefield 2042 128 player games
- @UP_Hawxxeye Yep cpu is in charge of bullet simulation, destruction and tick rate just to name a few
