Weird but serious performance issues
Hey guys!
I have some really weird stuff going on with the game. I'm experiencing serious performance issues to a point I can't even play anymore after 150 hours of perfectly running playtime. The thing is, it's hard to describe. It started a few days ago, maybe a week, (not enterily sure) as a little annoyance. The was acting up during the beginning of a round after the loading screen. It looked like it runs on some really low fps, keeps kinda like lagging or freezing and moving again, but after a short period it worked perfectly. But now, it reached to a point where I can't even play the first 2 phase of a galactic assault match becasue it takes so much time for the game to stop this low fps run and go back to normal. And as of yesterday, I can't even start a new game, as during the initial spawn of the teams it puts me back to the menu after the game freezing out, showing the squad I'm about to spawn with. I'm able to connect and spawn to ongoing matches but it lags so heavily that it looks like it's running on 2-3 fps. This applies to every game mode, even arcade and campaign. After long enough time to game runs perfect, but it takes longer and longer, to go back to normal.
And here is the weird part: according to the Origin's ingame fps meter, the game always runs at around 60 fps, as it did before in my 150 hours of playtime, and messing with the options, (lowering everything to the lowest) it still acts exactly the same, so it can't be a graphical problem. I just now tried to reinstall the game, but it didn't do anything, runs the same when I unisntalled, totally unplayable.
I checked the task manager and it shows a 98-100% CPU usage when the game runs, so I guess it somehow overloads the CPU. Even on Discord people can't hear me and I them just tiny fractions when the game runs, probably becasue there is not enough CPU power to handle it. But I haven't changed anything on my PC, haven't installed any game, my drivers are up to date, and as I said, it did run perfectly fine, I played 150+ hours with it. And no other application eats abnormal ammount of CPU power. There was a Windows update (I'm palying on Win 10) before this all started (I dunno like 2-3 days before the issues), maybe that * up something? I don't know.
Any ideas?
Freezing for me was due to constant 100% CPU usage even in menu.I have, as it seems, successfully solved this.
Now I only get 100% CPU forw few seconds when the game boots up or a map loads in first time.
Here is what I did (first steps might be irrelelvant):
1. Origin client - auto game updates - off
2. Automaticall update Origin - off
3. Origin help service - off
4. Show origin after gameplay - off
5. Origin ingame logging -off
6. Under "more" - Enable Origin in-game - off
7., Vsync "Use the 3D application setting" in Nvidia Control Panel
8., Shader Cache - turned "ON" in Nvidia Control Panel
9., Run game, set display to Borderless and enably Vsync
... and these might be the most important 2 step:
10., 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"
11., 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.
Result for Me:
100% CPU only appear until game loads and only during first map loading time. No more freezing, stuttering or crashing to desktop.
I hope you guys this helps!
