Hey everyone,I’ve been seeing a lot of reports about extremely high CPU usage and overheating issues affecting certain CPUs while playing. I’ve been trying to spot a pattern, but so far it seems to occur across many setups — especially with CPUs that have 8 or more cores.
Some players have attempted to fix this by creating a “user.cfg” file with their core and thread counts (you can find guides on YouTube or Google by searching “BF6 CPU issues”). However, for many users, this method doesn’t seem to help — even when matching their system’s exact core/thread configuration or limiting the game to fewer cores.
For example, on my i9-12900K:
I’ve also tried the following with no improvement:
To rule out cooling issues, I ran several demanding CPU benchmarks — none of them reached the same temperature spikes I get in-game.
Interestingly, some users reported this issue starting during the beta, while others (like me) only began seeing it after launch.
If you’re facing similar problems, please post your specs and list:
I’ll compile all the information from this thread and, if needed, send a detailed report to the devs.
Thanks for helping track this down.
— A long-time Battlefield fan who hasn’t been able to play since release due to this issue.
I'm still facing the same exact issue but I have a intel i9 13900k cpu. I literally cannot play the game....
If the CPU is overheating, it's due to inadequate cooling. Upgrading the CPU cooler is recommended.
Gamers Nexus has some of the best CPU cooler reviews.
If you're gaming on a laptop then there's not much you can do besides turning the CPU fan speed to 100%.
Please read thread carefully, the same cpu doesn’t overheat even with heaviest cpu benchmarks, this shows that cooling and the cpu itself are not in fault.
You could turn off the E-Cores in the bios or try the software Project Lasso to only assign P Cores of your i9.
No it's not, stop posting this in every **bleep** thread
I'm so glad someone said this. It's gotten to the point where I have had to PRE-FACE every single post on X, Reddit, wherever with "I HAVE TRIED THE STUPID USER.CFG "FIX" AND IT DID NOTHING" before continuing.
Additionally, I am having similar problems. Tried everything. No official word from any devs I am aware of. I paid right at $100 USD for a game that I now can't play (unless I play only those small modes), can't return because I played almost exclusively TDM, Squad DM, and Domination, and the only thing "Wrong" I did was assume having something HIGHER than the "Minimum Specs" would render a playable Conquest/Breakthrough experience...
And it's not just you, not just me. 2 of my buddies are in the same boat. One has already returned it. The other works so much he's waiting it out.
Not a peep from the devs. Worst part is as much as I disliked the game at times 2042 ran WAY better for me. THIS sucks. Going on 2 weeks now with no update, no fix...
Actually, just checked and I agree, why are you replying with the same thing to every possible cpu issue thread. Please stop spamming. I already address that in the thread anyways, just read. You just write the same thing on very thread, trying to farm the forum?
Tried everything. My spec: Ryzen 7 7435HS, rtx 4060, 16 GB RAM. „Playing” on low with custom config for better performance . Huge CPU bottleneck on bigger maps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWTZkB9rVU0&t=5s
Fixed it instantly for me
TLDW - download and install new drivers for your wireless card
this is likely not the same issue, the game doesnt stutter it goes into "slow motion" with overall slow system response
Adding in my replies from a previous thread
CPU Usage | POSSIBLE FIX | EA Forums - 12738434
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS , RTX 4070, 32gb ram
I fixed the issue on my end, my 11900k would sit at 100% and I got 50-70fps, in my BIOS I changed gear ratio from 2 to 1,
now I get 160fps and CPU usage sits at 70%.
I will try to find that, I will look and see what gear ratio does. Why did you go this way about fixing this?
I tried literally everything suggested so I just went and changed some settings in my BIOS to see what affect it would have.
Found a solution (in my case). I just upgraded my RAM to 32 GB and now i have 70% usage of CPU and +90% GPU. FPS solid 110-120
Trying to solve this issue for someone else, are you using DDR5 perchance?
My theory if you are is that you kneecapped your CPU by using 4 slots of DDR5 which is known to slow the RAM down for whatever reason, and kneecapping the CPU is what fixed the usage for you.
Just a theory.
I'm having the exact same problem. Currently on a gaming laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 TI Laptop GPU and a i7-11800H CPU. I've tried the user.cfg file with no luck, tried updating my drivers, and messing around with a ton of graphics settings within Windows and BF6. Every game, it feels like I'm moving in slow motion with people teleporting across the map, and I get killed by a flash of light moving across my screen. Nothing has helped in the slightest, and the best part is that I can't even get in contact with EA about the issue.
Found a temporary fix:
You can download intel xtu for intel cpus and limit the frequencies of the P and E cores to (Default minus 5x). This causes your cpu to be limited to a lower clock speed. It helps with the temperature and the usage. You can start from minus 1x and go lower if needed. I hope this helps.
Yes I have already tell people but not boddy listen
Dont know what I could say here that I havent said elsewhere so Ill just lay out my situation.
i990k 3080 on a widescreen 3440x1440.
In single player im hitting 120+ frames with medium+ settings but the moment I load into multiplayer my entire setup locks me below 46fps on the dot and im not getting any temp throttling or anything. Ive tried the user.cfg fixes and lowering my resolution and settings to all low to make it less demanding and somehow I peak at the same frame count of a sluggish 46. Only solution ive found was to enable DLSS, enable frame gen, enable dynamic resolution and then turn down rendering to like 40% and even then im barely pulling 60. Honestly kinda stopped playing the game until today just giving it another shot at fixes since its unrefundable but if you find any fixes just # me or smth. Would love to make a useless game useful.
Melitose please type this into the BF6 command console and post a screenshot.
PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 1
Whatever this graph shows take into consideration im looking directly into the sky. Somehow still felt some choppyness which is incredible considering in all 20 smth years of gaming ive never found a game that performs worse looking straight up.
usercfg murders your 1% and 0.1% lows. Even if you match the cores/threads with it, just having the file in place on causes loss in performance via reducing CPU usage for no reason. I've tested that on my 14900k and had someone do the same on a 9800x3d and both of us came up with an indisputable fact that you should not do user.cfg
The game runs my CPU very hot, but it's not throttling and it's not hitting max load.
I suspect that the game does something with it's instructions in the engine that cause intel cores to heat up more than they should.
To the OP, what do you mean when you say "overheating" and "overloading".
Are you getting 100% CPU usage? Is it thermal throttling by hitting over 95c?
MackTKau you're correct. The game tries to spread the CPU load across all the cores evenly. The user.cfg does the opposite and concentrates the load onto a few cores, while other cores sit idle. This causes some of the cores to hit 100% utilization, which causes framerate drops and worse 1% lows.
You're also correct about the Frostbite engine using AVX2 SIMD instructions which causes CPUs to run hotter than normal. There's an AVX offset setting in motherboard BIOS which automatically downclocks CPU frequency when AVX instructions are executing. I don't use AVX offset because I think buying a better CPU cooler is the way to go.
AVX2 is what I thought it might be but since I don't know I didn't want to say. I do have a -2 offset in my system already, since the 14900k is a known superhot CPU especially when using AVX (I have a lot of bios tweaks to get my CPU in a sweet spot of performance vs temps).
I can see in hwinfo that the cpu p-core clock will bounce around from my bios set 5.6mhz to a 5.4 which suggests the AVX offset is working (as -2 equals 2 ratios, ie, 200mhz) when the game runs an AVX instruction.
Last night I cleaned out the dust in my PC fans & radiator fins, dropped the max temp by 15c lol. Easily the most effective tweak you can ever do is regular vacuuming and dusting. 🤣
People on hot intel CPUs who haven't been doing bios tweaks and might have weaker CPU coolers and haven't replaced thermal paste in a while (i use ptm 7950) is going to be some of the explanation of high temps. If they're using overly high settings for their system that's going to cause high temps as well.
