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Sorang-kun's avatar
4 years ago

The CPU usage is abnormally high all the time.

The CPU usage is always at 90%~100% when I'm playing BF2042, while the GPU usage is not that high.

Thus, the overall frame rate is very low, and the game is quite laggy that it's not playable.

I've never had this issue on any other games(even on new, tripple A games).

So far, I've tried followings:

the clean boot, re-installing the game, flushing DNS, overclocking the CPU, re-installing drivers, adding user.cfg file to make the game use all 16 threads instead of just 8, adjusting in-game setting as well as NVIDIA control panel setting, un-plugging every devices that are not needed for the game like a drawing tablet, re-installing Origin, enabling DX12 by editing PROFSAVE_profile file, scanning my PC with two different anti-virus programs, contacting EA Support via Twitter, looking up for information that might help on every forums I could think of.

I attached the DxDiag file.

Please, I really don't wanna give up on my favourite video game franchise ever.

I've played the game for over 100 hours, with all the horrible technical issues. That's how much I desperately want this game to be playable and be loved by people.

I'm trying so hard not to lose faith in Battlefield. I'm truly looking forward to get a meaningful answer this time.

24 Replies

  • Sorang-kun's avatar
    Sorang-kun
    3 years ago

    Ok, I ordered 3600MHz 8GBx2 ram. They'll be here within 2 days.

    I'll mark the post as solved if the change works.

  • direct3r's avatar
    direct3r
    3 years ago
    @Sorang-kun keep us up to date how it worked out.
    I have 2666mhz Ram (40gb with 4 slots / 2x dual channel) and only was able to solve the high cpu usage by the described method of lowering down the cpu perfomance limit. I still have no clue why this only works (and it's only bf 2042...)
  • Update your motherboard's bios, opt for a freshly  installed OS, install AMD chipset drivers, Nvidia drivers and finally BF2042... This really leaves me puzzled 

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