Good evening, after the last update the game experiences constant fps drops and stuttering, especially when aiming, this did not happen before the update, I tried to play closing everything, msi afterburner and other programs in the background and it remains the same.
my pc is an i5 7600
msi rx 480 gaming x 8gb gpu
16 gb ram
Just tried running "EAAntiCheat.GameServiceLauncher.exe" in the game folder as admin. While the problem isn't solved, it runs a bit better. Seems to freeze less, though the frame drops are still here. Hope this works for other people as well, the game is at least somewhat bearable
the game is now unplayable for me after 8 years working smoothly
This situation makes you think about not spending more money on EA products that will become unplayable at some point.
Since EA Anti Cheat was introduced it * up BF1 (and BF V) to a state where it is now unplayable.
This is the opposite of what was stated from EA/DICE at the introduction of EA Anti cheat! It causes massive problems.
And not only for me if you mind reading through the forums here.
After some investigation I found the root cause for me is that bf1.exe is now forced to run on only the first 2 cores. There is no way to force it manually (through Task Manager or Process lasso) to use more cores, because the access is denied by the anti cheat software. I can set all the EA associated services to use all cores, but as soon as I launch the game, all services will be set back to the first two cores. Those services are:
bf1.exe
EAAntiCheat.GameService.exe
EAAntiCheat.GameServiceLauncher.exe
EABackgroundService.exe
EACefSubProcess.exe
EADesktop.exe
EALocalHostSvc.exe
This happens EVERY TIME the EAAntiCheat.exe launches with the game. After closing the game I can maually set the affinity of the EA services back to all cores.
I somehow managed once to set manually one of the EAAntiCheat.exes right on startup to use all cores, and the bf1.exe inherited those settings.
The game then worked absolutely fine using all available cores with now horrible framerates and no stutter. But it unfortunately is not reproduceable and no reliable workaround.
I tested this on two different PCs on two different OS (Win10 & Win11). So this is not a problem on my end. It was clearly introduced with the introduction of EA Anti cheat. It is obviously a halfbacked solution that renders the games unplayable for legit gamers. And this is just ridicoulous. EA/DICE solve this MESS!!!
PC1: Win10 (22H2) i5 9700K / 32GB DDR4 RAM / RTX3060Ti / OS & Game on dedicated SSDs
PC2: Win11 (24H2) i5 14600K / 32GB DDR5 RAM / RTX3060Ti / OS & Game on dedicated SSDs
Still stutters a lot! Really annoying!!! THANKS EA/DICE!!!
Over a month as a hot post, and not a single care by EA/Dice.
God, I hope this company goes bankrupt.
On God, This if my first time playing it and I'm afraid it will be the last
what an unlucky time to decide to play BF1, i have the same issue with these stutters. The game runs fine at stable 75fps but then CPU usage jumps to 100% and the game just stutters like crazy for a few seconds. it seems the "system" process is what causes the usage spike, and i haven't managed to pinpoint what causes it, it doesn't happen when doing anything else on my PC.
