On top of the ongoing chat bug (for well over 3 weeks now, basically nobody can type/send messages), there’s a new major issue since the last 1–2 days: the servers are almost unplayable.
What’s happening:
This is not limited to one region — it affects both EU and Asian servers, and it happens on community servers as well as official DICE servers.
BFV was unplayable for months and this workaround fixed it! Thank you so much guys
I think I've noticed something which partially explains why not all servers are affected by the bug, it's kind of obvious in hindsight.
Regular players will know that, for whatever reason, sometimes on some server platoon tags aren't visible; it's been happening intermittently for years now. As it turns out, when a server can't display platoon tags it also doesn't make the clients stutter! It's like having Player-Created Content disabled server-side.
This to me suggests that if EA wanted they could implement a workaround (or even actually fix the bug) server-side, without going through the trouble of patching the client, and possibly without even touching the game-server code either, if the problem is entirely on the back-end.
Footnotes: I'm focusing on platoon tags because they're the easiest to notice (just open the scoreboard and see), so far I haven't been able to observe if this also affects player emblems. Also during my testing I found one server where, by chance, nobody was representing a platoon (confirmed through the player profile API) and yet the server still caused stutters, presumably because the Player-Created Content delivery system still had to look up players and thus stumbled into the bug.
3 months without a fix yet, 2 months of no comments.
The EA folks are investigating this issue so hard they can't even find the time to pin a comment detailing the workaround the community found weeks ago. $1.75B profits last quarter alone and they can't even afford to make a forum post.
太客气了兄弟，我们都热爱这个游戏，只有某个**bleep**只会冷眼旁观，我不说是谁，哈哈
That's really too kind of you, bro. We all love this game—well, except for a certain **bleep** who just stands on the sidelines and watches. I won't name names, though—haha!
You're a genius, man, you have no idea what's been going on in my head and with my psyche to this day? Dude, it works. I've played this game for 8,000 hours, and it's been lagging, freezing, and stuttering since February, almost 4 months ago. I was going crazy until today, when the AI sent me your post, and I started laughing that it couldn't possibly work, but I tried it, and DUDE, IT WORKS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVE YOU, DUDE, for what you've done.
Hey guys, if you are getting those horrible 30-60 second freezes and stutters at the start of matches or during gameplay in BFV, it's NOT your PC. EA's servers have been completely broken for the past 4 months regarding user profile sync.
There is an official workaround found by the community that instantly fixes it:
1 Go to Options -> Gameplay.
2 Look for "Player-Created Content" (usually 3rd option from the top).
3Change it from Show to Hide.
What this does: It stops your game from requesting clan tags and emblems from EA's broken backend servers, completely removing the CPU spikes and hard freezes. Keep in mind that this will also hide server names in the server browser, but you can still use the filter/search bar (e.g., type "Strategic") and it will find the servers just fine. Pass this on to anyone struggling with the game right now!
Dude, it works. I've played this game for 8,000 hours, and it's been lagging, freezing, and stuttering since February, almost 4 months ago. I was going crazy until today, when the AI sent me your post, and I started laughing that it couldn't possibly work, but I tried it, and DUDE, IT WORKS. IT'S WAY BETTER. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVE YOU, DUDE, for what you've done.
Console players are also affected by the problem discussed here, so I very much doubt it can be related to the anti-cheat.
The fact that disabling an in-game setting gets rid of the stutters suggests to me the problem lies somewhere between the game client and EA's back-end servers.
It works, thanks. This means that something in the background is causing the issue. EA learn from this...
