Battlefield 6: CPU at 100%, GPU barely used — Performance issues?

i have the new drives as well
Processor    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz   3.70 GHz
Installed RAM    48.0 GB
Graphics Card    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8 GB)
System Type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

While our CPUs are vastly different (13700k), I had the same issue. The only way I could fix it was to go to settings and frame rate lock to something lower like 85. 

I have this problem too :c rx 6700 xt, ryzen 5 5600 is a 100% all the time 

Yep same usage and temps are higher than I’ve seen on any game 88+ 14th i7 

The reason ur gpu is low usage is because your CPU is bottle necking it..

The recommended Cpu for this game is  Intel Core i7-10700, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X . Both have 8 cores 16 threads

Your cpu has 4cores 8 thread... im having the same issue on my laptop as my i5 9300h, which is 4c/8t  4ghz , is bottle necking my gpu ( i was playing on all low barely 30 fps)

I dont get why this game is this cpu hungry even out of chaotic situatuons

Anyways, only a cpu upgrade can fix your issue.. 

Hope this helped


Edit: i just noticed ur motherboard is old too..sooo it wont support newer cpus

Same. But I have 5600X. I made 3 changes that has stabilized the game performance even with 100% CPU usage and high graphics settings.

1. Launch only from EA app with EA's in game overlay enabled. (it's a weird bug everyone is getting worse performance without the EA overlay)
2. Cap framerate to 60 FPS.
3. Disable vertical sync but limit monitor refresh rate to 60 Hz.

My game runs smooth now, though CPU is at 100% all the time. Regardless of any settings.

Hi everyone,

I had the same problem as you and I figured out how to solve it.

First, create a file with Notepad called "user.cfg".

Copy this inside and replace the 6 and 12 with your processor's specifications:
Thread.ProcessorCount 6
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 6
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 12

Note: If you're not familiar with this, go into the game and enable the FPS indicator. There will be a green line in the top left corner with the processor's specifications.

Place this file in the game folder.

If you're on EA, you can enable the in-game overlay.

If performance isn't good, and your graphics card uses Nvidia, go back to driver version 577.

Hi Azram, are you putting the text file here?  C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Glacier Events\Data\Win32\game

Here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Glacier Events

It works to a certain extent, but it's still very complicated. In reality, developers should optimize their games properly, that's the real problem.

Because I seriously doubt that the game will be any better optimized than that, even after the beta.

It's not normal to be able to run a game like Cyberpunk with high settings when it's not optimized and has a very large map, while a game like Battlefield, on a much smaller map, runs the processor at full speed without using the GPU and is barely playable.