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
On God, This if my first time playing it and I'm afraid it will be the last
Over a month as a hot post, and not a single care by EA/Dice.
God, I hope this company goes bankrupt.
Still stutters a lot! Really annoying!!! THANKS EA/DICE!!!
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
This situation makes you think about not spending more money on EA products that will become unplayable at some point.
the game is now unplayable for me after 8 years working smoothly
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
Me too! EA needs to fix this urgently, the game ran so well before, one of the ones I had the most fun with, then EA comes with this update and makes the game unplayable. Thanks for ruining another flawless game, EA.
Same issue, just bought the game after playing around 1500h on PS4/5 for the last 7 years. I have an I5 4460, GTX 960 2gb an 8gb ram. It's an older PC, but when I tried the game years ago it worked fine. It worked on a weaker PC. No matter what option i get, stutters and freezes happen. It even says 60fps sometimes while it stutters like crazy. I mean this is insane that the game works better on my PS4, played it yesterday, than on my PC. I'll take framedrops over stutters and freezes any day of the week
