The game is unplayable after the TLJ patch. Constant stuttering and freezing.

I tried the file "write-protected" but the file is modified everytime u launch the game ☹️

this is intriguing, my observations so far:

1. Before the Last Jedi DLC and patch - no issues

2. After the patch: stuttering and FPS drops but...

there were days like 2 days ago where the issue was completely gone, I mean like completely but

Since yesterday evening it got super intense again, I did not update or change anything in my PC hence I start thinking maybe it is something on the back end, servers? Maybe these are some sort of lags impacting the FPS...no idea....

I spoke to few folks today expieriencing the same and the things we have in common are: we have GTX 1080Tis, our CPUs have more than 4 cores (Threadrippers and Skylake-X i9 7900X)....apparently it is not that bad in DX12 but the game WAS FINE before....

Thoughs?

@@cyberfredcobra For me it works since I experimented with it and and found this solution. Haven't change anything since then. Truly strange... However what I did was: delete the origin files as described in their troubleshooting post except the local folder and gave admin rights to the shortcut which is starting the game. Then I've created user.cfg and modified the files... don't know why you have to do this all over again.

@Judge_Dredd_80have you tried the earlier mentioned 2 steps (page 24-25, I think) ? At least it worth a try in my opinion. If that does not work then try a frame limiter sw.

@MrwaylayThis worth a try, tho I'm not sure this is relevant. Try it and tell us:

1. Completely log out and close down Origin
2. Hold down the Windows key and R
3. Type in "%ProgramData%" (without quotes) and click OK
4. Now open the Origin folder.
5. Delete all the files and folders in the Origin folder, except for LocalContent (do not delete this one)
6. Hold down the Windows key and R
7. Type in "%AppData%" (without quotes) and click OK
8. This will take you to a Roaming folder, which is located inside of AppData. Delete the Origin folder
9. Click on the word "AppData" at the top of your window
10. Open the Local folder here
11. Delete the Origin folder listed here
12. Restart your PC and log back into Origin

I agree with u yugi8625 , it s very strange , yesterday I launched the game many time and no problem at all.

this game makes me crazy (since last jedi update) and still not communication from EA despite this HUGE MAJOR issue ☹️

@Yugi8625 yeah I have tried those, no effect. the thing is my CPU load is 25% tops when playing the game, so that is not an issue  for me.

2 days ago the game was running perfectly, first time since the update, and yesterday evening - BAM - super intense stuttering, today is the same - tbh - I cannot remeber this being that bad

I found this in another thread:

1. disable shaders cache in nVidia control panel

2. boot the game

3. close the game

4. enable the shaders cache

Maybe this empties the cache, and when it gets full this is what happens - no idea how this might work just guessing 🙂

So far got one round with no issues - can be coincidence and I don't want to jinx it 🙂 but give it a try and let me know.

@Judge_Dredd_80but question is:  How often will you need to repeat this?

hehe that is a good question, disabling it completely only for that game causes stutter. Need more investigation but would be nice if people would try it and share their experience with that workaround.

i did what yugi sayed and wuala, game works great, realy great and playable 
thank YUGI

Hi,

I'm adding my experience here with this issue.

GPU: 1080 Ti

CPU: i7 6800K 6 cores, 12 threads

RAM: DDR-4 32 GB

OS: Windows 10 Pro 1709 (Redstone 3 Fall Creators Update)

Monitor: G-Sync 144 Hz

Game: Full screen, Ultra, resolution scale 140%

Issues in SWBF2: stuttering in Video Cut-Scenes, in menus, in lootcrates, at the beginning of maps, randomly during play time.

Issues in BF1: stuttering in Video Cut-Scenes (Operations), in real-time rendered Cut-Scenes (Operations), at the beginning of maps.

So way more stuttering in SWBF2 than BF1.

I solved all of them by turning off DX12, one is remaining tho, video pre-rendered Cut-Scenes of Operations in BF1 are still stuttering, but that's all.

I need to mention that for BF1, I'm using: gametime.maxvariablefps 141
141 because I'm following Blur Busters recommendations of setting 3 FPS below refresh rate (144 Hz) to force G-Sync to be always on.

V-sync is OFF in game, and ON in NVIDIA control panel, as recommended by Blur Busters, again to get G-Sync to work as intended with the minimum possible of input lag.

For SWBF2 I could not get gametime.maxvariablefps 141 to work, it's not capping my FPS at 141, whether I use it in in-game console, or config files, launch options, the game is not taking it into account, it's odd.

So for this game, I'm using Riva Turner to cap fps at 141, it adds very little input lag compared to use an in-game frame limiter, so I would really like to make the in-game one to work in this game too eventually.

From what I understood in my research to solve this issue, it could be related to the Windows 10 Redstone 2 Creators Update of last spring (2017), the problem got reported by dozens of gamers from dozens of different games, to Microsoft, they published later a fix in Windows Insider version of W10, that may or may not makes its way to Redstone 4 Update in early 2018 for regular versions of Windows (spring?).

There's a giant topic about it on NVIDIA forums: All games stuttering with FPS drops since Windows 10 Creators Update

Here is the answer of Microsoft, announcing they made a fix as a test in Windows Insider Build: Windows 10 Creator Update leads to frame rate stuttering and slow performance is there a fix?

If you want to install Windows Insider build and report here if it fixed your issue, that might help Dice.

You're gonna tell me, then why before The Last Jedi patch, there was no stuttering. It still could come from Windows, Dice maybe just changed something that triggered this specific Windows issue in the last patch of SWBF2.

In any case, I noticed this stuttering only in 2 of my games, BF1 and SWBF2, and I solved it in both by turning off DX12, which I don't really mind because DX12 doest not bring graphics improvements, just performance improvements.

People said here that Dice didn't acknowledge the issue yet, but they did, some week ago already, in Twitter.

I could be totally wrong, but after reading a lot on this topic, I'm afraid that it's more on Microsoft hands than Dice or NVIDIA.

And Microsoft, while they published a fix on Windows Insider, they are super slow on fixing this issue that got reported already 9 month ago for many recent games.

Anyway, I hope that my feedback will help some players and/or Dice.

I'm also having a somewhat similar issue that I'm simply writing off to my hard drive read/write speed for the frame stuttering, but I'm having something different at the same time.  Does anyone have input lag/lock issues with the game?  I mean, I will say now, BFII is literally my only game that calls up 100% CPU usage, which is quite annoying and makes the game completely unplayable (ironic part is, it worked just fine on arcade WHILE the game was downloading, so I don't understand what's different), but otherwise, I cannot even make ANY progress in the game at all!  Anyone have a fix?

My rig:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: XFX R9 390
RAM: 24GB

Hard Drives:

   OS Disk: 1TB San Disk SSD (Windows 10 Home OS)

   Game Disk: 2TB WD HDD

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@GalmLead wrote:

I'm also having a somewhat similar issue that I'm simply writing off to my hard drive read/write speed for the frame stuttering, but I'm having something different at the same time.  Does anyone have input lag/lock issues with the game?  I mean, I will say now, BFII is literally my only game that calls up 100% CPU usage, which is quite annoying and makes the game completely unplayable (ironic part is, it worked just fine on arcade WHILE the game was downloading, so I don't understand what's different), but otherwise, I cannot even make ANY progress in the game at all!  Anyone have a fix?

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@GalmLeadfor windows10 guys, usually disabling dx12 helps. I'm running on Windows 8 so I don't have dx12 problems. That is why I searched for a solution and came up with the temporary fix for BF2. Try page24 or 25 the 2 described step in my post. If that does not help then try rivatuner.

However for future posts we must distinguish between win 8 and 10 problems. Fix might likely to be different...

I would advise to say what OS you running when someone posts a rig/setup.

@GalmLead

2 easy steps:

1., Inside "C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\STAR WARS Battlefront II\settings" I have edited  "ProfileOptions_profile" and "BootOptions" with wordpad. Added the following entry to the end of both file "GstRender.maxvariablefps 60"

2., Open up the Notepad program and enter: "gametime.maxvariablefps 60" (without quotation marks). Click the File menu in Notepad, then Save As. Browse to the installation folder (e.g.: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Star Wars Battlefront II) In the “Save as type” drop down menu at the bottom, select “All Files”. In the “File name” box type “user.cfg” (without quotation marks). Click the Save button.

This confirmed to be borking for many. If does not work then try limitting frame count with rivatuner sw.

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@GalmLead wrote:
That's not fixing the input lag. The lag is happening with the mouse and keyboard. It's similar to what you'd experience with a overtaxed system. Again, CPU is sitting at 100% used while in-game (the only game to do so on my system), video settings on the game I've lowered down to lowest to further assist with preventing any potential bottlenecks, and to add to it, the frame stuttering (as I've mentioned in my original post) I'm writing off to be hard drive speed. Any way to fix the input lag?

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@GalmLeadrun task manager and check it's performance tab while you are in game. If there your CPU is on 100% then it is not a HDD or memory issue. You can check this easily. Try my solution once you confirmed that CPU is on 100% by the task manager.

If it turns, by any chance, to be input lag for keyboad and mouse, then please open up a new topic as this is this for freezing, stuttering, crashing.

I play several hours yesterday , and it seems yugi solution with judge dredd solution (disable shader cache in nvidia control panel , boot the game , close the game , enable shader cache) , works for me

 only few stuttering at the beginning and no more after few seconds.

I think there are 2 separate issues in this thread:

1. 100% CPU usage - which does not affect me at all, 25% tops.

2. And stuttering issue related most likely to DX12 (similar to the one from BF1).

In this case disabling and reenabling the shaders cache improved the performance significantly.

 Windows 10 1709: Playing SWBF2 in 4k, Ultra ,DX12 - 60-80FPS on single 1080TI with GSync on.

There are some hick-ups but it is not as bad as it was for me before I disabled/enabled shaders cache.

It did not happen at all before the Last Jedi DLC/patch.

And yeah I experience occasionally the same in BF1.

@Judge_Dredd_80

Seems to me as well, that

- Win10 users suffering from Dx12 issues and the mentioned Windows creators update

- Win7, 8 and 8.1 users with Dx11 having the 100% cpu issue for that solution is known.

Guys,

In order to be able to help you - when you post here:

- Always post the rig specifics and the OS you are using

- also we need the task manager's performance readout while you're facing the issue

Thanks!

Well, I posted here two weeks ago, seems things didn't get any better, at least for me.

Windows 7 - i7 6700K - GTX 1070

Already tried pretty much everything in terms of graphic options, resolution, fullscreen, borderless etc, no combination change anything to my stuttering problem.

I tried the disable/enable shader cache workaround, did nothing.

Out of curiosity, as suggested here, I also tried to cap the rendered frames by editing the settings files and/or by using rivatuner, still didn't change anything (which in that case is logical since i'm not experiencing CPU spikes anyway).

So, are there still people for which it still doesn't work ? Is a fix even planned by the developpers ?