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.
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.
Melitose wrote:
Thanks for posting the screenshot. The yellow CPU line is jagged like saw blade teeth, indicating the CPU is struggling. The CPU is causing the low framerate.
How much DDR4 RAM does the system have? 16GB?
Check if the DDR4 RAM is in dual channel mode with CPU-Z app.
