Battlefield 2042 High CPU Usage Fix

[@gishifps]

Its crazy how we need to essentially patch up the game for them. This was super helpful, thank you for sharing!

[@minnidot]

I agree with you and am glad this helped!

[@ALANSNB]

I played 3 full matchs without a single stutter... It was really hard to find your video. I tried many many things and this is the only thing that fixed the 1-4 second freeze. God bless you man!

[@minnidot]

Im glad it worked for you! I'm sorry it was tough to find my video, i'm not very popular. Drop a subscribe and a like :)

[@TheGreenn]

I5-12600k went from 100% to 75-80% crazy how with just a tiny text file this game actually feels smooth again. Thanks a bunch!!!

[@minnidot]

Glad it helped you! There's no reason a game should be crippling our CPUs like this.

[@TheGreenn]

@@minnidot yeah it's quite incredible that a multi-billion dollar company can't put a 5 line notepad in their files lol.

[@zk2934]

Thank you so much for your help, for about a month or two I was beginning to doubt the capabilites of my cpu and cooling as it was running close to a 100% usage at 80 degrees C. After the fix, my CPU usage was around 50% to 60% and hovering around between 65 to 70 degrees C.

[@Ataniphor]

holy hell what a difference. litterally went from always at 90s and 100% CPU usage down to50-60% in menus and 60-80% during game play.

[@zower1257]

thought my gaming laptop was so bad but no it was the game, huge thanks !

[@minnidot]

Super glad to hear it helped you. This game was the first to make me doubt my system as well!

[@Andres760891]

Hi which app do you use to monitor temps/usage I was trying to use msi after burner but its blocked on bf2042

[@minnidot]

@@Andres760891 i am using geforce experience

[@pelhamcarss-rv6fj]

Works perfectly, have gone from 99% CPU usage to 58%. Game is a lot smoother. Thanks for the heads up.

[@minnidot]

Awesome news! glad to hear it helped you

[@XanderHowell3]

@@minnidot Just did this and not gonna lie made my game run worse

[@rogermcfadden2762]

Went from 100% to 60-70, much appreciated big dawg.

[@minnidot]

thats a win!

[@mvargens]

Your solution solved my problem in BF5 too, thank you!

[@minnidot]

This is awesome to know!

[@ajm5725]

Worked here on my Core i7 11700f, did the change and worked. Thanks a lot man!

[@minnidot]

Really glad to hear that! I had thought 'if this video helps even one person it will be worth it'.

[@ajm5725]

@@minnidot really helped! Lower 20-30% of cpu usage. It was 75-90% before, and after 55-60%. My question now is: why doesnt EA apply this to everybody in game? Do you know? Thanks again!

[@minnidot]

@@ajm5725 I could only guess at answers... glad its working for you!

[@Copeur]

Just bought this game it was very laggy and unplayable even with my overclocked 5600x running 65°C max.. Usage was at 100% with a laggy 200 fps even limiting 144 didn't help. Your video worked for me thank you, usage is still high 80s to 90s with fps cap but runs much smoother close to no stutter.

[@minnidot]

i am glad it helped you. they really did us poorly with the game

[@Copeur]

Hi quick update on my issue maybe someone else has the same problem, just found out that my gpu driver was from January (before season 7 I guess ?) forgot to update it. After doing it my game became a normal game, very playable above 200 fps and when locked to 145fps my CPU stays below 55% usage and GPU around 60% (6600xt).

[@Denis_the_Menace]

Big up bro! it worked for me also! Ryzen 7 on a Asus TufA15! From 100% to sometimes 50%/ max 85%. Thanks a lot!!

[@minnidot]

im so glad this has helped!

[@eodx.e]

7 months later and it still works, thanks man.

[@minnidot]

Glad to hear it helped you out! Have fun gaming

[@rjanguamea1218]

Yo I did this for warhammer 40k and it fixed the high cpu usage. thanks again!!!

[@minnidot]

This is awesome. I'm glad to hear it has worked on another game

[@monroe2245]

just like to thank you for the suggestion. Been playing for months and then update and it turned to shite. I tried it and i got 2-3 mins playtime before it peaked at 98. Before It would hit 95-98 while the game was loading. i should have known better with 2042 tks again for the effort!

[@SirduteYT]

Just started playing BF2042 again and ran into high cpu (70-90%) usage just on BF alone. Tho before awhile back when I was playing never had a problem or atleast didn’t notice enough to know there was a problem. Stopped playing for the night but I am going to try this tomorrow and see it it helps!

[@minnidot]

With any luck it will help!

[@xjusterx]

man you are a rockstar ! 10 motnhs after and still working thank you very much !

[@minnidot]

So glad to hear its helping!

[@KccCAEU]

this man is a life saver

[@andersonantonio]

Funcionou como um relógio suíço, agora não passa de 53% de utilização de cpu, e não perdeu desepenho no modo 64 players, 128 perdeu um pouco de fps sim, mas está muito melhor que antes quando estava com 80% de uso. Comentário em português para ajudar a galera. pode fazer que é sucesso. Só fazer essa cfg que ele deixou na descrição, mudar pelo teu número de processadores físicos e lógicos, e colocar na pasta do jogo.

[@minnidot]

¡Me alegra saber que esto funcionó para ti! Estoy usando un traductor, así que espero que puedas leer esto bien. ¡Diviértete jugando!

[@lagabharoune3950]

How can you loose fps in 128 you are just telling the game how much cores and threads your PC have it should not make you loose fps its none sense

[@Geraldao00]

@@minnidot kk espanhol

[@Jousten16]

Gesundheit.

[@marcindrk7244]

alterar os arquivos assim é possível que dê VAC? meu unico medo

[@Fringu3llo]

Thanks a lot for this fix for bf2042! appreciate it :)

[@minnidot]

I'm glad it helped!!

[@bindxpoxt]

it actually worked, you are the man!

[@minnidot]

See you on the battlefield!

[@holliday8429]

it worked with a 6950 7c5800 & 48g ram thank you,your a chad

[@grayink1578]

Well, this didn’t fix my cpu running at 100%, but it fixed my cpu temps that were in the high 90s, now I’m in low 80s and now my gpu runs at more than 50%. So I guess that’s a lot better than it was. Thank you

[@minnidot]

I'm glad it seems to have helped your game!

[@minnidot]

If you havent already, boost your games graphic settings. Your GPU wants to do more work!

[@grayink1578]

@@minnidot I was trying to lower my ridiculous cpu temps so I was running everything on low. I’ll try bringing some settings up next time I play, thanks for the tip!

[@minnidot]

@@grayink1578 totally makes sense. I just started playing around with increasing the GPU utilization the past few days. Game looks better and runs with no issues!

[@TheDjManolo]

Thank you Man , it works , Now im getting like 60-80% CPU , i post it at BF2042 community

[@minnidot]

So glad it helped you! It really can be a fun game once all the issues are corrected

[@xibrilesk]

it works bro. from 75% to no more than 55% max on a 10900k. 1% low got worst.

[@zarbylefr]

Many thanks! couldn't run the game properly with my R7 5800H, now it runs smoothly

[@LittleEvilPenguin]

Thank you friend. something that finally worked. Posted fix on steam and a link to your video.

[@minnidot]

Glad it worked and I saw your post on steam. Good stuff. More people should be aware of this fix :)

[@vankruk]

HOLY DING DONG I tried everything and yea it was better then nothing but i got a feeling that something is still wrong But after this method i instantly saw the difference Stutters from 2 - 3s went to 0.2 - 0.5s Feels so much smooth Even it fixed loading time and loading textures in game FPS before was droping to 40-50 and now lowest i got is 60-70 on Redacted 120 players when all are throwing granades in one place. This is SICK You should make post on Steam with this like tutorial fix Thank you very much

[@minnidot]

Im so glad it has helped you!

[@SuperTheBryan]

holy camole it actually worked was getting 70-95 usage now its on the 40-50 thanks r75800x

[@minnidot]

Woohoo! glad it worked for you!

[@MugiwaraLuffy11]

Wow thank u man my game is now so smoooth it's crazy

[@minnidot]

I'm so glad this is still helping! I just built a new machine this weekend and applied the fix before I got started in the game

[@nbachillzone8725]

HOLY SHIT. DUDE THANKYOU!!

[@minnidot]

Youre welcome :)

[@arseint]

Thank you so much man!! My ryzen 7 5800x3d went from %80 78C to %50 65C

[@minnidot]

Im really glad it helped. This game assaults every CPU in ways that are just not kind.

[@TwonSr]

This worked for me. You’re the goat! Thank you.

[@minnidot]

So glad this helped!

[@grim_potatoes4242]

Thanks man. I went from around 90-100 to 50-65

[@minnidot]

This a major difference. Glad it helped!

[@drobiIIka]

thx dude! i can play 128 player server with my 5500 without stutters now, wow. game is 2 years from release, and still needs to be fixed manually, its horrible.

[@minnidot]

Its upsetting to see update after update with no performance improvement. That being said, im glad this worked for you!

[@swoomipro]

Thank you very much! It really worked on my old Ryzen 5 1600. I thought that it was impossible to play BF without nasty stuttering with my setup. But now I can even play BF 4K smoothly. Thanks :)

[@Grachik75]

hello. im have 5 1600 too cpu usage that why lagging yes?

[@swoomipro]

@@Grachik75 ye, it worked for me.

[@Grachik75]

@@swoomipro which gpu do you have? did you set 6 cores / 12 proc count?

[@swoomipro]

@@Grachik75 when i wrote this comment, i had AMD 6800XT and ryzen 5 1600 and yes i set 6/12 and it really was nice improve in fps and no stuttering. But now i have ryzen 7 5700X and got no problem at all :D And now I tried this fix on my new processor and it makes no difference at all.

[@Grachik75]

@@swoomipro oh contragulations. im have 1070. did this method but nothing changes idk gpu do very well. but even if im unlock fps - 80-90 but still feels like 40 even if i do throw commands "resolution scale - 0,5" (compared like a half of full hd" its the same. i hate 2042 why i must think about their problems 😅

[@KhaoticRedd]

This video is golden. Thanks dude

[@minnidot]

You're welcome!

[@duncle322]

Damn it's like my pc can finally breathe thanks dude

[@maverick19702000]

Excellent video. Thank you. My CPU is still maxing at 100 but at least it is playable where as before it was rubberbanding so bad the game was unplayable. Apex and BF4 are just fine but BF2042 not good until I found your video. Thanks.

[@minnidot]

im really glad it has helped!

[@Eblim]

Wow 100% down to 55-65%. I'm running i7-8700 with 2080ti. Huge difference! Thanks!

[@minnidot]

Success!

[@autotopgermany3323]

thx works even today. they not fixed it until now but good that we have people like u 👍

[@minnidot]

I'm glad it helped! your videos are cool :)

[@autotopgermany3323]

@@minnidot thx :)

[@rjanguamea1218]

Bro thanks!!! It works! Does not crash my pc.

[@theMRMCx3]

Worked fine with i9 11900k ! thx

[@minnidot]

game is still really CPU intensive but im glad it is working better for you!

[@theMRMCx3]

@@minnidot yeah fr And its normal that the pc is loud ingame ?

[@minnidot]

@@theMRMCx3 Thats more difficult for me to answer. If your system is working really hard then it could be normal w/ the fans going at full speed. Some components are much louder than others. I have had GPUs that sounded like they were about to take flight

[@theMRMCx3]

@@minnidot okay… my gpu is a rtx3080 so im Little confused

[@minnidot]

@@theMRMCx3 some cards are just louder than others when they are under full load. not a problem, just trying to stay cool!

[@ziloga]

Trying this now - will update.

[@minnidot]

Fingers crossed for you, friend. With any luck we will be team-mates on the battlefield :)

[@DittyBitty69]

Sad that AA games are getting more bugs than an indie game and less updates than a f2p.. Regardless nice one for the quick fix

[@asuyiki]

Thanks it worked ! 60-82% now

[@minnidot]

Glad to hear!

[@khaledbebo9]

The menus itself were putting my i7 11800 on 95* C which means the device starts to throttle before the playing even starts, that's how bad this sh** was affecting my game, Thanks a million times for this fix! it's amazing how incompetnent EA is & have been for the last few years, it's like they aren't even trying to satisfy their paying customers, but at the end of the day, we deserve this because we keep on buying their BS!

[@minnidot]

I'm glad it helped!

[@Papa2087]

Thank you my Friend. It works for me. Greets from germany!!

[@minnidot]

So glad to hear it helped you! greetings from USA!

[@IroaEdit]

Thanks, great tut :)

[@minnidot]

You're welcome!

[@ThomasMoessner0]

Really helpful, it works !

[@minnidot]

Really glad to hear it helped you!

[@VikingDudee]

I got to try this, my CPU usage wasn''t high at all playing this game like 6 months ago, now my 5900x often sits at 100% playing this, and that messes with the feel of my mouse, I'll definitely give this a shot when I get home from work, thanks!

[@VikingDudee]

Works, actually amazed it did, FPS is also a bit higher, incredible how incompetent is Dice these days, thanks!

[@kingcash3818]

this worked for me thank u :)

[@minnidot]

Glad to hear it helped!

[@owengordon4521]

Bros a legend

[@Beerman-ek6ym]

my r5 3600 say - thank you good man!)

[@trinhpham4494]

dont work for r5 3600 mine T.T

[@aranblazer]

with my AMD 7 5800. 8 cores and 16 threads. from 100% usage no matter what. it actually got reduced to 40% usage in menu, and down to 75-80% usage during the game. still higher than my GPU usage. but it changed. so i will say Well done on your research fix on this :) hope your channel grow even bigger mate :D For streaming, BF 2042 is pain, when recording and testing with bandwith everything in BF 2042 is working smooth, then one think okey then it is fixed. suddenly going live. everything lags, stutters, and the latency ingame is huuuge. being unplayable and unwatchable. weird how that works really. in testing it works out but when actually live it kinda fried it self. and i have set BF to its lovwest of the lowest in graphics and never had that issue before until EA app, and the BF updates caused the problems. and then later Nvidia aswell had a Update where it caused higher CPU usage on top of it all. myself working hard to make this game to work, because i really dont wanna play CoD MW2, so playing SW BF2 just to stay away from CoD.

[@RisingPhotography]

Try 7 on all of them. Worked for me! Or 7 7 15.

[@taylorkilo1596]

thx for your good work. I've fixed my problem. your explanation is easy even for japanese monky :)

[@minnidot]

I'm glad it worked!

[@leetpkay7355]

Thank you man this fixed it!

[@minnidot]

Glad to hear it helped you!

[@leetpkay7355]

@@minnidot Since my comment it has helped 3 more friends fix there games too haha

[@minnidot]

@@leetpkay7355 I'm so glad to hear this. Before i made and posted this i told a buddy 'it helped me, if it helps one other person then it will be worth the time'.

[@Yolo-zh6wn]

based hero

[@crstfr14]

Thank you so much for making this video! Fixed the issues I was having. Will this work for any Steam game?

[@minnidot]

I'm glad it worked! I can't answer your question about other games, but you can certainly try and see!

[@Ngiongio21]

Thanks! It worked for me!

[@minnidot]

Im so glad to hear that!

[@EatingWaffles]

It worked but my temperatures are still crazy high when I play this game. i9-10850k and RTX 3080

[@isaadabdrh]

i have i5 and it works for me thank you so much

[@vadimjavoronkov4946]

Спасибо большое, работает!!! На моем ryzen 7 5800x3d загрузка была 60-85%, щас 30-50%.Температура упала с 67-70 до 61-64

[@minnidot]

Я так рад слышать, что это сработало для вас. Если повезет, вы сможете прочитать это сообщение, я использую приложение-переводчик. Ваше здоровье!

[@Olibuu]

Working in August 2024! Thank you dude. CPU would get hot playing this damn game

[@minnidot]

i am glad it is working for you!

[@potatomuncher7771]

The patch fixed the CPU 100% all the time but my temps are still high and i have an aio. I'm using a Ryzen 7 5800x3d with a RTX 3080.

[@minnidot]

Glad this helped! I dont know if this would impact the temps, i forgot to pay attention to mine. If i remember correctly the ryzen systems usually run pretty hot (90-95c), but i could be wrong

[@dylaanokay2980]

Patch didn't fix my shit at all I'm about to do this. On the forums people are still complains about this. My i5 12600k should not be a 100 percent

[@aVesela3_14cka]

​@@dylaanokay2980 did u fix anything ? I have also 12600k and problems in every game becouse this CPU -.- low FPS on lees demanding games

[@dylaanokay2980]

@aVesela3_14cka I never ended up doing it because I moved. Once im back I'll try.

[@marcus5850]

i5 13400f here , before %100 , after %52 max . Thank you

[@minnidot]

Youre welcome!

[@bognarmartin2]

58->44 in menu 90->70 in game Amd ryzen 7 7700 Thanks mate!

[@minnidot]

I'm so glad this is still helping people! When i made this video i told my buddy "if i even help one person it will be worth it"

[@maker7901]

worked for me as well Thanks so much works well on season 5 update

[@kennyde2307]

Thanks! It worked!

[@ABCboy5]

This doesn't work, no change in the game at all. Another way you can tell this likely doesn't work is because you can edit the file while the game itself is open, meaning the game exe itself is not even recognizing or using the file.

[@MrPanjii]

Maybe you done it wrong?

[@cristianzex]

Hello Minni dot, I found your video helpful and it working, also try to add delete in my documents bf 2042 - what is inside cash and crashdumps.

[@minnidot]

Im glad it worked! Much of the Documents folder is the game's cached files. When you delete them, they will have to rebuild while playing and it can cause some stuttering/hitching while doing so. It *is* a good idea to clean these out every so often tho. Thanks for adding more tips

[@cristianzex]

9900k Was peged at 100% all corest at 5.0ghz all cores, I was like wtf :))@@minnidot

[@devinmina5170]

Thank you for this fix! 100% huge lag to 50-60% cpu usage in game. - Can this be used for all games?

[@minnidot]

Im glad it helped! I dont know if it can be used for all games

[@grey8044]

U fixed my game. I was at 100% cpu usage and it says my gpu was being limited. I have the same frame rate before but it is much smoother and for some reason looks a little better too. I’m at like 55- 70 % usage now

[@minnidot]

I'm glad this worked for you!

[@ABCboy5]

When you have BF2042 running, can you edit the User file or no?

[@grey8044]

@@ABCboy5 the game needs to be closed first

[@ABCboy5]

@@grey8044 That's the problem, when I make the file it allows me to edit it at anytime, even with the game open. Therefore I conclude the game isn't actually using the file for whatever reason...

[@grey8044]

@@ABCboy5 it’s a user.cfg so the game doesn’t need it to run but when the game opens it will use it. That being said you still do need a pretty strong cpu to play the game

[@Chefilein]

Worked very well, ty

[@dustinmihalcheon5013]

So I have a documents folder as well as the EA app folder where the EXE file is. The documents folder lets me save it into settings but the file where the game and EXE are says I don't have permission to save into this location.

[@minnidot]

It likely wont work if you place the file into the Documents area. You may be able to right click the EA app folder then go into properties>security to make sure you have permissions to save to that location. If you are the admin of your machine it should let you. Fingers crossed this helps point you in a better direction

[@nathanb6683]

it fixed my problem, ran 4 tabs of chrome and ran battkefield same time, it only got to 70%

[@moneymc6470]

Actually worked for my r7 5800x Thank you Cpu went from 99% to 60-70% Doesn’t sound like a lot but i dont stutter at all anymore. Fps went down a little but im guessing thats just how discarded plays

[@minnidot]

Glad to hear it helped you!

[@niklasm4298]

Worked for me as well,, went from straight 100% on all Cores on i7 10700k to 70-80%, but sadly no more fps then before, GPU still running only on 60% usage or so

[@minnidot]

You can probably boost some graphic settings to utilize more of your GPU!

[@chargernizwa]

same issue ryzen 5 5600x with rtx 3080 Thread.ProcessorCount 6 Thread.MaxProcessorCount 6 Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0 Thread.JobThreadPriority 0 GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 12

[@D4kR0s]

thanks bro work for me

[@minnidot]

Glad to hear!!!

[@D4kR0s]

@@minnidot Thanks in advance I turn my CPU from 100% to 86% maximum and the black screens are no longer gone

[@KSeet]

Does this fix the slow motion bug for 128 players?

[@nc33228]

lol this actually worked, game was loud and noisy now it’s silent besides compiling shaders here and there, 10850k oc is now shut up

[@minnidot]

So glad it helped you out! cant believe they havent fixed it on their end after all this time

[@T4ll4hassee]

It's not perfect but that made it playable for me. Thank you. But seriously the recommended CPU specs for this game are a huge Scam. I have a i7 4790k which is old, yes but DICE says it's recommended so it should.... No it's an absolute stutterfest without the fix.

[@minnidot]

Im glad it worked for you. They really did us poorly with this release. All my friends, and myself, were so excited for BF2042

[@BhH677]

Thanks now cpu is much better R5 3500x. Very sad that BF f up this game. From Saudi

[@Just1kOoL]

i7 11700kf - 8 cores and 16 threads. Did not work for me unfortunately. Game's at 100%, 100° (celsius degrees). I guess i'll uninstall again. :)

[@VikingDudee]

Need a better cooler, Its a heavy game on the CPU, but if your CPU is hitting 100c, it will in other games that beat on the CPU like this game does.

[@sNk_Sid]

Try this settings in user.cfg Thread.ProcessorCount 7 Thread.MaxProcessorCount 7 Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0 Thread.JobThreadPriority 0 GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 15

[@tahyang]

still working at it but CTD on launch after creating the file my only variable is that I am running through EA rather than Steam R7 3800X 8x16

[@萬物皆虛萬事皆允]

Thank you so much

[@minnidot]

Glad it has helped!

[@apeGER]

There is a easy anti cheat launcher in your EA BF2042 game folder. Try to start it with admin rights. The Launcher is called "BF2042 launcher"

[@Gaming123]

Been trying to fix this for a while but this method doesn't work for me for some reason

[@Mmat2016]

Thanks man

[@funpolepel]

Thanks this seamed to work

[@stanleyc959]

Thank you so much!!!!

[@infernobeastz5991]

helped. Thanks

[@leviathan-l-9284]

wont workfor me ; i have 6 cores 12 threads cpu and my game still set 12 core usage if i open the ingame console to ceck

[@rzer6954]

Thank you!

[@btd1114]

thank you so much

[@TheBF3prodigy]

First off thanks for this fix. But how and why does this work? Does the game assume we have more cores and threads by default? Does this file just let the game know that "Hey quit using more than you've got to work with"?

[@minnidot]

this is basically telling the game what cpu it has access to. i think without this file the game assaults every cpu, treating them all as the same

[@dethroned3384]

Thank you

[@apeGER]

I think there is a antivirus conflict with win10 defender and bf2042 anticheat solution!?!?

[@theredwedge9446]

I have an i7 8700k and my cpu is maxed out, is it not good enough for the game ? I tried the fix and didnt work. (update) Verified my game files and reset my pc and now im all good to go !!!