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8 years ago

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Stuttering/FPS Drops in Multiplayer only, Singleplayer running flawlessly.

I am facing fps drops in Battlefield 1 Multiplayer, mainly in conquest maps. The singleplayer runs at a constant 60 fps.

Its been happening since release and no fix yet. I was using Windows 7 earlier and it was unbearable back then and the multiplayer was unplayable while i was using Win 7. And then i decided to play it on Win 10 and the stutterings were reduced by a lot but its still there. No matter if i set the gpu restrictions on or off or even if i play at low settings and with DX 12 on or off, nothing works. The multiplayer keeps stuttering all the time. Its not completely unplayable but some times there are huge fps drops from 50 to a sudden 30 fps or 20. The TDM maps have no issue and run perfectly without any fps drops. Its just the conquest map.
I have an ancient rig but play almost all games at High/Ultra settings and get like 45-50-60 fps and its stable in other games. Witcher 3 runs at constant 60 fps at Ultra settings,no issues.
My Specs :
i3 2100 Processor
Strix GTX 960 4 GB
8 GB DDR 3 RAM 1333 Mhz

Maybe my processor is bottlenecking but its very unlikely, i ve seen many other posts like mine and those people have powerful rigs.

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NoxTheNib
8 years ago
That CPU is fairly below min-spec.
Multiplayer is VERY CPU intensive. I'd be very confident that's the problem right there.
I'm sure if you monitored your CPU usage while playing online you'd see it completely maxed out.

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NoxTheNib
8 years ago
That CPU is fairly below min-spec.
Multiplayer is VERY CPU intensive. I'd be very confident that's the problem right there.
I'm sure if you monitored your CPU usage while playing online you'd see it completely maxed out.
RhinoRex_47
8 years ago
Yes i do think my processor is the culprit. I am upgrading to a i5 7600k soon and DDR 4 RAMs. I hope it will fix the issues.
NoxTheNib
8 years ago
You'll get a nice boost with a 7600k alright.
In the mean time, all you could try is dropping settings as low as possible and making sure everything in the background that can be closed, is closed. You'll probably still get quite a bit of stuttering though.
RhinoRex_47
8 years ago
Yes i am doing a huge upgrade soon with a new mobo,procy and ram. For now i have tried everything. Tried all graphical settings at low and no joy. Still the same stuttering.
While i play BF 4 multiplayer at 60 fps without any issues. I dont understand why BF 1 is doing this to me 😠 I will update this thread once i upgrade my pc.
LapisRadzuli
8 years ago
I had a similar issue, intense stuttering and FPS drops despite other games working fine, for me it was upgrading the RAM and CPU which solved it. An i3 is below what you'd likely want to have for this game so an i5 or perhaps even i7 if you can afford it would be much better at running the game, especially on higher playercount servers like 64 player Operations or Conquest.
While anecdotal, even after upgrading to a 1080 / i7 personally the game continued to have random stutters particularly during explosions or combat which made playing unbearable, upgrading to 16GB of ram stopped this from happening as from what I tested hence it seems the game is very RAM heavy as it is CPU heavy.
RhinoRex_47
8 years ago
i was planning on getting an i5 7600k but the 8th gen intel processors are gonna drop end of this year. I think i will just wait. What do you think? And about ram, i was thinking about getting a 8 gb DDR 4 for start but it looks like i am gonna have to spend even more.
Anonymous
8 years ago
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I have those problems even tho i have a i7, 16 gigs of Ram PC, the only thing i need to update is my NVIDIA GTX760 graphics card