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Rising Rookie

2 months ago

Time Nudge Issues in Battlefield 6

In Battlefield 2042 and the Battlefield 6 beta I started experiencing some frustrating time nudge issues. Oddly enough I did not have these issues at the launch of 2042, and they only became a problem when I came back to the game this year due to excitement for Battlefield 6.

I did pick up a new video card for unrelated reasons (just finally found a decent deal on a 9070XT).

What I found was that my problems were due primarily to poor airflow in my case, leading to very high sustained temperatures and thermal throttling of the CPU. This then caused a CPU bottleneck that led to the TN issues. During the BF6 beta before replacing my case I was able to get the TN issues under control by reapplying thermal paste and limiting FPS to 60.

After the beta I picked up a new case with much better airflow and fans and since have not had any thermal throttling issues playing games like Cyberpunk 2077, Battlefield 2042, Star Citizen, World of Warcraft (it is actually a CPU intensive game!) and Ark: Survival Ascended extensively. Temps have stayed in an acceptable range and I have not seen any throttling.

Today when I jumped into Battlefield 6's launch I found that this issue was back with a vengeance. I saw wildly high TN and the game was unplayable at the default settings. Even with settings tweaking I was unable to get into a playable range and saw marginal at best improvement. The game runs fine when I spawn in and as I'm running to the first point, but as soon as combat starts my TN goes nuts and it feels like I'm playing on dial up (FPS stays fine). At that point I was seeing 100% pinned CPU utilization.

I tried using the User.cfg fix and it did help a bit, my CPU utilization dropped a fair bit, now it averages around 80% with spikes to 98%, and it made the game somewhat playable, but I'm still getting intense TN spikes at any busier command points.

This is, frankly, infuriating. I have friends playing on much older CPUs with excellent performance, and I have seen others on YouTube playing with my CPU with no problem. I'm really at my wits' end here. If anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate it. I don't understand why it worked fine in the beta but is such a mess now (and yes, I have the issue on the maps from the beta).

Probably worth noting that this isn't an issue at all in the campaign, it works perfectly there with smooth 60FPS.

Specs:

Intel Core i7-13700K

Radeon 9070XT

64Gb Corsair 3200mhz DDR4 RAM

ASUS ROG Strix Z690A Motherboard

Corsair 850 Watt Gold

technical issues

20 Replies

ADTDaoden
Rising Novice
2 months ago
Fix worked for a few hours then time nudge came back with a vengeance
Ba1dMagic
Seasoned Newcomer
2 months ago
I’ve also tried the suggested corrections and nothing seems to work. I don’t understand even why a company would create these forms when they have no intentions to help problems solve. Your game just released two days ago and all these individuals saying hey we need help. You don’t even have the balls to tell them to pound sand. I’ve been playing Battlefield for decades. Since the OG times of World War II. And now to see the shameful & disgrace of the latest games 2042 and now this game, where you sit silently on your hill. Disgraceful.
XkotorinX
Rising Newcomer
2 months ago
I fixed this issue.
I change XMP Profile in Bios.
If this solution not worked, you will change Full Screen mode to Full Screen in BF6.
JesterPC
Rising Rookie
2 months ago
This does work for some people. The reason time nudge is high, to my understanding from cobbled together research, is because my PC can't communicate with the servers at 60hz. This can be due to a number of factors, one of them being improper RAM clocks, which is fixed by ensuring the XMP profile is set.
Unfortunately it seems that there's a myriad of things that can cause the issue, so everyone will have a different solution. I'm glad this worked for you though!
FunnyMan326
Rising Newcomer
2 months ago
I am having the same issue. I don't think it's getting enough attention. I have put the config file in the game, adjusted my BIOS, frame cap, and graphics settings, to name a few things. You name it, I have tried it. It would be great if someone figured out a solid answer for this. It doesn't even seem to be on DICE's radar.
ClapMastaGod
Seasoned Novice
2 months ago
I have been having this issue since launch. I have researched and done all the “fixes” and it is still **bleep**. EA please for the love of god fix this **bleep**. My computer is more than well enough equipped to run this game on Max settings. All while I can’t run the game on the lowest settings. This problem worries me for the fact that apparently 2042 had this problem and it was never even addressed or fixed.
SantaSatsune
Newcomer
2 months ago
The fix for me - Go into BIOS, CPU Overclock Settings, turn on XMP-Profile 2.

Went from 700-1200 TN to ~30
bosspt18
Newcomer
2 months ago
To fix this you need to activate xmp on rams but your rams need to be in the dual channel sockets if not ONLY xmp dont work you need to put the rams in the dual channel sockets on the board
And maybe need to put fps limit on game too try that ppl
MustaphaMalbino
New Traveler
2 months ago
This is Battlefield 2042 bug report site you geniuses
Maltent
Rising Newcomer
2 months ago
I'm having the same issue, granted I have an aging CPU 8700k. But seems to be happening even on much newer CPUs, which to me points to other issues than with the CPU even though a lot of what I've read points to the CPU. I've had xmp enabled and still get tn spikes. I'm seriously thinking there's something going on in EA backend, maybe network congestion, that might be exasterbating some sort of issue. The only thing I haven't tried is enabling resizeable bar.