I have a Lenovo Cube that has a Core i5 7400, 16GB RAM, RX 480 8gb GPU spec sheet. It runs most games today quite well...except for some of the CPU intensive big world Ubi games. I've been trying to get BF5 to run smoothly on this for a while now but no dice. I finally had to settle for putting it to Max Fidelity which I think put the settings to Low. I'm finally getting 75 frames...enough to be in sync with my monitor refresh rate (75hz). But is it just me? BF1 runs beautifully on the same machine.

@EA_Atic I should have checked the required specs! Luckily my brother who lives with me has an HP Omen that has a 8700K 6-core and a GTX 1080Ti so I can continue to play on that 🙂

Is BF5 still poorly optimized (PC)? (As of October 2019)

12 Replies

GUTENTAAAAG
6 years ago
You probably have a CPU bottleneck. 4 cores with 4 threads just doesn't cut it.
OttoVP
6 years ago
@SpectreRobin01 as told by @GUTENTAAAAG your pc isn't top notch and will suffer major fps drops with the latest updates. I hope in more effective AMD GPU drivers (but having also a better cpu will help a lot)

cheers mate
SpectreRobin01
6 years ago
It's astonishing that even a quad core isn't enough for this game lol. It runs BF1 on ultra...and BF5 is essentially the exact same game too! Ah well. Lesson learnt.
SpectreRobin01
6 years ago
@OttoVP Are the new updates increasing the hardware requirements? Shouldn't it be the other way around...usually patches make the game run smoother on all hardware.
OttoVP
6 years ago
@SpectreRobin01 i do fully agree. sometimes a mixture with os upgrades + gpu driver release make games run like hell. More DLC and content may increase your system load but in mere terms of fps (which is the whole point of system requirements 🙂).
I noticed this major fps drop too sadly
EA_Atic
DICE Team
6 years ago
BFV uses a lot of CPU and something that Battlefield games in-general notorious to do. @SpectreRobin01

One of the reasons to why the recommended spec is an i7 4790 and if you are using DXR its all the latest hardware.

/Atic
SpectreRobin01
6 years ago
@OttoVP And I found out that I can't upgrade the processor in my computer to anything 6-core either ☹️ Oh Well. I guess I'll have to stick to Max Fidelity lol
SpectreRobin01
6 years ago
@EA_Atic I should have checked the required specs! Luckily my brother who lives with me has an HP Omen that has a 8700K 6-core and a GTX 1080Ti so I can continue to play on that 🙂
OttoVP
6 years ago
@SpectreRobin01 hi sad to hear that but happy you are still able to play your game on your pc and your brothers' one!
let's mark this question solved then and if you want give some xp! 🙂
cheers mate
see you on the battlefield!
EA_Atic
DICE Team
6 years ago
@SpectreRobin01 glad to hear that you can continue to play. :D

/Atic