100% CPU usage in BF1

I'm currently testing out a new workaround for people and you seem like the person that can test it for me. My theory is that the game crashes due to hardware getting used at 100% and that might cause some bug to crash the game. Crashes often caused by nvwgf2umx.dll (or the game itself) which is an Nvidia driver file.

STEP 1

The workaround is quite simple, we need to lower the maximum FPS the came will render- I want you to create an empty text file called user.cfg in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\ (or where you might have your game saved) and in that file and add this text if you have a 144Hz monitor:

gametime.maxvariablefps 145

or this text if you got a 60Hz monitor

gametime.maxvariablefps 61

If you have another monitor take it's hertz frequency change the number above so it's Hz+1

STEP 2

If STEP 1 does not work try changing the values in the user.cfg file to lower values. Keep lowering them until the problem hopefully doesn't happen. I'm aware this will lower the quality of your experience as you will get lower FPS so see this as a temporary solution until Nvidia / AMD / DICE comes out with a fix, if this helps your game not crash it will help them fix the issue faster and you will be able to play in the meantime.