Graphics settings don't matter?

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.

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@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.

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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

@ATFGunr@ATFGunrI didn't mean to offend anybody. I just mentioned to re-read the original post because the guy recommended me to lower the graphical settings, which I already did, and mentioned about it above. If I did, I am sorry, I just wanted to clarify the situation.

@UP_HawxxeyeI will test the settings now and will let you know UPDATE:

OK, I ran the game, with MSI Afterburner recording my stats, and it just running, not recording. So MSI Afterburner shows that on average, I have about 35-40 FPS, and minimum was 27. The MSI Afterburner's file shows the graph, and so it's sort of hard to track everything, such as lowest score, but either way, that's... my usual gameplay FPS for Garbagefield 2042. Sorry, I just can't call it Ba... Ba... Nope, sorry, just can't. Because this game isn't Battlefield. It's glitchy, it's laggy, it has "specialists" nobody is interested in... So this is not Battlefield. Or at least, I can't call it like that. (I just have to note it, there most probably were bugs even in BF3/4 and other games, but... to some extent, 99% of them were so minor nobody paid much attention to them, because you had to have a super sharp eye to see them (once again, please excuse me if I'm wrong; for over 700 hours I spend on BF4, I may have seen a bug or two at most, which I don't remember anymore - so minor they were, so I consider it to be a pretty well made game))

I had an 8086k (a binned special edition 8700k, overclocked to 5ghz on all cores) and game ran terribly on it, my old 3090 was fluctuating up and down all the time, even in 64 player maps.

I swapped everything out to a z690 platform with a 12900k, night and day different, however, BF is still CPU bound, my now 3090ti in heavy combat scenarios still is only running about 85% usage whilst a few CPU cores are getting utterly hammered.

tl;d, Game is CPU bound, 12th gen will massively improve, but will still bottleneck modern cards (even at 4k like I am running).