Battlefield 6 – Persistent Asset Streaming / Invisible Geometry Issue
Battlefield 6 - invisible players/weapons and delayed world streaming at start of every match (PC)
Summary:
At the start of every match (approx 2-5 minutes), players/weapons and world objects (e.g. bushes/vegetation) appear late or pop in as I move. It looks like assets/LOD are streaming in around me rather than being present. This happens in both Casual Breakthrough and normal multiplayer. After a few minutes it improves.
System:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
RAM: 64 GB
Storage: NVMe SSD (Crucial P5 Plus, CT1000P5PSSD8)
OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (Build 26200)
DirectX: DX12 Ultimate
Driver: AMD Adrenalin 26.2.2 (clean install)
Monitor: 1920x1080 240Hz (DisplayPort)
What I see:
- First 2-5 minutes of each match: missing/invisible player models and sometimes weapon/ADS issues
- Vegetation/objects appear as I run past (streaming/LOD delay)
- Not a one-time event: repeats every match
- No major stutter observed
Diagnostics/metrics:
- AMD overlay shows CPU utilization at 100% during match start, GPU utilization ~70-94%
- No thermal throttling
- Disk and network do not spike during the issue
Troubleshooting already done:
1) Clean GPU driver install (Adrenalin 26.2.2) and reset settings to default (no Anti-Lag/RSR/Boost/AFMF/Enhanced Sync etc)
2) Cleared caches:
- C:\Users\Steven\AppData\Local\Battlefield 6\cache
- C:\Users\Steven\AppData\Local\D3DSCache
- C:\Users\Steven\AppData\Local\AMD\DxCache
Battlefield cache file PcDx12 remains very small (~5KB) and the issue persists.
3) Reinstalled Battlefield 6 (fresh install)
4) Tried exclusive fullscreen and refresh rate set to 240Hz in Windows
5) In-game settings:
- Frame Rate Limiter ON, set to 180 FPS (CPU still hits 100% and issue persists)
- Dynamic resolution OFF, upscaling OFF
6) Windows settings tested:
- Disabled "Optimisations for windowed games"
- Disabled Windows Variable Refresh Rate
- Drive indexing disabled (where permitted)
- Defender exclusions added for the game and BF6 AppData folders
Request:
Please advise if this is a known DX12/Frostbite asset streaming or LOD issue on PC, and what additional logs you need.
I can provide DxDiag and crash dumps if required.
