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sebi2142's avatar
sebi2142
New Spectator
5 months ago

Stutter persists after User.cfg tweaks and fresh Windows install

Running a Ryzen 7 5800, RTX 3070, 32 GB RAM, 5120×1440.

 

Originally my CPU was pinned at 100%, so I tried all the recommended User.cfg tweaks. That dropped CPU usage to around 85–90%, but the same stutter and low GPU utilization remain. What’s strange is that FPS, CPU, and GPU usage stay stable, no dips, spikes, or temp issues, yet gameplay gets extremely choppy in high-activity areas.

 

I’ve done the following:

  • Fresh Windows install
  • Latest BIOS, chipset, and NVIDIA drivers
  • Game installed on NVMe SSD (rebuilt shader and cache folders)
  • Tested DX11 & DX12 with multiple User.cfg setups (RenderAheadLimit, TripleBufferingEnable, etc.)
  • All graphic settings set to Low, and I’ve tried various combinations with no improvement
  • Disabled overlays and background applications

At this point, the game only feels smooth if I cap FPS to 30 FPS, which isn’t ideal. I’ve pretty much ruled out hardware as being the issue. Seems tied to Frostbite’s thread scheduling on Ryzen CPUs, but I’d really appreciate any confirmation or workaround if EA/DICE is aware of this.

4 Comments

  • I'm curious if you (or any recent updates) managed to improve your performance much.

    I have a similar setup (only slightly better with a Ryzen 7 5800X, RTX 3070 Ti and 32 GB RAM) but I have a lower resolution at 3440x1440. I have to set everything to low, set resolution scale to 90% and DLSS to "Performance" to get 60 FPS. It sucks. I love Battlefield and want to see it in all it's glory.

    You're pushing a LOT more pixels with lower specs. 5120x1440 on a 3070 is going to be rough. That's getting close to playing at 4K, so it's definitely hardware limiting you. That probably worked fine on older games but on a brand-new AAA, eye-candy game, not so much.

    Two full generations of GPUs have come out since ours, so we're becoming dated. I notice on my rig that even at all low settings I'm surpassing my 8GB VRAM in BF6, so it's not just a CPU issue. It's just a heavy game and our setups are unfortunately far more suited to a 1080p configuration for BF6.

    I'm sad and frustrated about it, too, but I think it's sooner time we think about upgrading our CPU AND GPU (something I can't do right now) or downgrading our fancy monitors. I wouldn't expect any miracle updates to drastically improve performance, sadly.

  • Have you tried disabling HPET? (high precision event timer)

    I have a slightly different setup, (Ryzen7 5800x,  rtx 3060-12gb and 32gb ram, and i'm getting a solid 60+ fps)

    Playing at 2560x1440 resolution, with most in-game settings set to medium or high/ultra, and my cpu usage doesn't get maxed out constantly.

    (which could be because of the hpet timer beeing disabled, i haven't tested this though), 

    But by disabling the hpet timer,  it's requiring the cpu fewer times to 'calculate the timing', so it's less taxing on the cpu)

    Enabling it should give better performance, but it can also cause low fps, stutter and latency issues.

     

    The precision timer, has also helped me in the past with performance in games by disabling it. 

    It's worth a try. You can easly re-enable the timer again, if it doesn't change anything.

    https://www.minitool.com/news/disable-hpet.html

    Hope this helps.

  • Smooshieus's avatar
    Smooshieus
    New Spectator
    3 months ago

    Interesting. I hadn't heard of disabling HPET before. I gave it a shot in one match and (after a reboot) didn't immediately notice a difference, but I'll keep an eye on it. It might help OP though so, thanks for the tip!

    I still think OP's issue is that they're pushing literally double the pixels you are with a slightly worse CPU and slightly better GPU. (Although, he likely also has less VRAM than you, which would hurt, too.) It's likely just too many pixels with not enough power. You'd need some decent horsepower to get smooth framerates even on all-low settings with a massive screen like that. I'm honestly surprised and impressed they say their fps is stable outside of high-activity areas.

    After a lot of tweaking, with literally every graphics setting on low and DLSS on performance, I can leave the render resolution at 100% at 3440x1440 and get 60-70 fps in-game (105-130 fps in menus and 145 in the shooting range, weirdly), on a 5800X and 3070Ti.

    I'll stop harping on the resolution though, just in case there really is some other possible issue. I would love to be able to scoot my settings even up to medium.

  • Opsion's avatar
    Opsion
    New Spectator
    3 months ago

    Did you activate rezisable bar in bios + with Nvidia profile inspector for battlefield 6? Huge gains if not done already

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