Battlefield 2042 Optimization Guide | Every settings reviewed, analyzed, and tested.

[@JegsTV]

edit: correction on shadow filtering, PCF provides better FPS as seen in the numbers and expect higher vram usage on pcss. Yes, i used ost of battlefield 4 and battlefield 5. 🤣🤣🤣 Share your experience using this recommended settings. ⬇⬇⬇

[@Alex.UA6]

I'm wondering why your findings were different from Tech Guides graphics guide?

[@JegsTV]

@@Alex.UA6 havent watched that video. So i wouldnt know. But my findings are from my testing the settings one by one.

[@Alex.UA6]

@@JegsTV you should check out his video. It’s very similar, but you guys have slightly different results.

[@floridaman2146]

FOV: Increasing FOV lowers FPS, Recommended 93-98. ADS FOV: Negligible performance impact, recommend on. Motion Blur: 2-5% impact. Recommend off. Chromatic Aberration: Recommend off, no impact. Vignette: Recommend off, no impact. Texture Quality: VRAM impact. Recommend medium. Texture Filtering: 9-11% impact. Recommend medium. Lighting Quality: 10-16% ultra. Recommend medium. Shadow Filtering: PCF or PCSS. 3-5% difference, PCSS more costly. PCF for sharp shadows. PCSS for softer shadows. Effects Quality: Recommend high or medium. If many explosions, set to low. Post process quality: Low. Mesh Quality: Spot enemies easier far away set to low. Increase More details far away objects set to ultra. Terrain quality: Minimal impact. Adds depth to game visuals. 3-5% impact. Recommend high. Undergrowth quality: up to 35% impact. Recommend low. Anti-aliasing: TAA high looks better, 1-3% impact. Recommend high. HBAO: impact on how dark shadows are. 2-4% impact. Recommend HBAO. High-fidelity objects amount: 1-5% depending on situation. Recommend low. DLSS: Nvidia RTX cards: Quality, best visuals and performance. Recommend for resolutions above 1080p. Ray Tracing: Huge peformance hit around 30%. Recommend off. Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: enabled plus boost Future Frame Rendering: on Vertical Sync: off

[@Godmode_ON24]

Lighting quality is actually very important. Low lighting quality makes some textures look extremely pixelated and low res, most noticeable on rocks and trees. You can notice it most on the rocks under the ship on Stranded. Turning lighting quality to medium fixes this. Still no fsr though :/

[@applefresh7]

Awesome video; appreciate the work. Got tired of seeing "just put everything on low" vids.

[@elsuperfasto]

Hahah😂

[@nikimauchline1615]

Someones paid to go: BEST SETTINGS BF2042 LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW fml

[@UlyssesM]

@@nikimauchline1615 buys 4080. buys unoptimized game. eveyone: set everything to low

[@dlberker]

Dang! This is exactly what we needed! Thank you for the dedication you put into doing actual testing and not just saying "set all to low". I like the feel of higher frames, but also love the beautiful look of the game. Now I can intelligently decide which settings to tweak to my preferred look. Thank you!

[@ATOJAR]

You can turn off the weapon DOF(makes the weapon blurry while ADS'ing)by going into Documents\Battlefield 2042\settings then open the "PROFSAVE_profile" with notepad then change GstRender.WeaponDOF 1 to GstRender.WeaponDOF 0 then save the file.

[@PhenonIV]

TY so much! This has bothered me since launch and I kept asking for an option to disable it buy the devs don't listen

[@KhaoticRedd]

It is realistic the way they have it though so I prefer it but thanks for the info anyways

[@unknown75332]

This is literally the best video for graphic settings for Battlefield 2042 ! Amazing

[@rainbowflash5937]

I love when people actually test stuff instead of saying: "pUt EvErYtHiNg On LoW" So refreshing thanks alot.

[@jimbryant2157]

Thank you for the very clear descriptions of what the various graphic settings are and do. Since I really did not know what they did (before you video), I pretty much left them alone!

[@palakatuski]

I'm using an AMD RX 6800XT 16GB, (2015 MHz) memory type GDDR6, memory clock 2000 MHz, memory bit rate 16.00 Gbps, total memory B/W 512 GByte/s, AMD Risen 9 5900X 12 core processor with 32 GB RAM. Your settings actually reduced my FPS but improved the latency down to 9ms. I find leaving everything at ultra with Radeon Super Resolution enabled gives me the best FPS, 150-170 with a latency of 10 ms. Still, great video.

[@waldowaldo1980]

Amd GPU su.....s😂....rtx und dlss it the Future and Performance AMD gpus 🤡 town

[@darrens3494]

Very informative stuff. Thanks for taking the time for testing this

[@ep1cn3ss2]

Fantastic in depth video, thank you for this

[@nikimauchline1615]

Perfect. just the info I was looking for. Running on 4090 with I9, I can run all Ultra with RT on, DLSS Qaulity at around 100fps. But I struggled to see any difference in game between High - Ultra and RT on .

[@klever891]

Well done, all the important parts and you tell a little something about everything, good work man

[@dr.hannibal8338]

Subscribed for the high quality content I love it :)) keep it up

[@rayvivid]

great job, so much detailed comparison its a tough work we know.

[@JegsTV]

thanks bro :)

[@gbeam756]

Hey great video. I’m using all your suggestions. Gage looks great and plays better after all those updates.

[@CristianASV]

Awesome work bro, i hope i can get 10 to 20 more fps with these settings

[@БратэллаБФ]

Big thanks for vid bro!👍 Was testing your sets for my fhd monitor. Need to say that TAA High is blurry for mine, so i prefer TAA Low. In total, BF2042 needs resolution scale like ib BF4. There i use 150% for having 2880×1620, and this picture, on my 1080p monitor, is sharp as blade, and with no aliassing. It's just perfect🤗 Please, ask DICE to ad this beast feature to BF2042😊

[@wx2999]

They actually do have resolution scale, as a console command. 1.0=100% scale, 0.5=50% scale, 1.5=150%scale. I usually do 0.5 or 0.6 at 7680x2160 native, 240 or 210 fps woth OCed 7800x3D and OCed 7900xtx The setting is GstRender.ResolutionScale 1.000000 Located in Documents\Battlefield 2042\settings\PROFSAVE_profile You can also open the console using ~ and type Render.ResolutionScale 1.0

[@TheSolidlad]

Very informative and throughout! Thnaks!

[@am1n_dlt682]

Awesome work and video bro thanks a lot❤❤❤❤

[@mellowistaken]

This is exactly what i was looking for thank you!

[@mtcoiner7994]

Ive got my settings fine tuned to my 2070 super and Ryzen 7 3700x quite nicely. Now if the damn map would load 🤦

[@danielgamingpc4090]

thx for video! i subscribe !! 👍

[@axxproer]

right at 7:06 munits in he goes flying

[@PharaoahMonk]

What about Future frame rendering? I noticed you had it on On. In BFV it really helped but didnt makes a difference in BF 2042 for me.

[@zares_fnx]

Any update on this? I noticed after one of recent updates, game got a little sharper, but the overall performance dropped a little. Also, what settings affect CPU the most?

[@primitlve9259]

sounds like the tanki online soundtrack

[@kelownatechkid]

Thanks - great stuff!

[@MG0301]

Hey jegs can you do benchmark of 13400F + RTX 3070 pls 😊 I was planning to buy that combo

[@JegsTV]

will try bro. im still deciding on whether i'll get a 13400F or 13700k

[@JegsTV]

@@Scandalmiez not really. 13th gen is compatible on 12th gen motherboards.

[@Roadhog736]

Thank you for this video! Its helpful

[@xlr8r2010]

I thought future frame rendering caused stuttering?

[@alvarg]

bf2042 should of kept the RT reflections from bf5

[@jayful6096]

Best settings video ty homie

[@yarincool1237]

Waht about future frame rendering?

[@Frankenvergil]

Hi people, what's The best settings for AMD Radeon 570x 8gb?

[@MSC-556]

Are u on 1080p?

[@grey8044]

I could not figure out why my game looked so bad but it turns out I just needed to turn my brightness way up

[@ImUkoo]

Why do i have Crazy Input lag like when i press movement keys it waits like 1 seconds then moves, but i got no mouse input lag its actually weirdd.

[@piyachaiprasanthong9501]

Great video thank you

[@adnantariq3346]

In a deep n pure Germanic voice, “ VELL DUN!!!” BFV reference…

[@matheusmartins7057]

Great video!

[@endzik]

Very good video 👍

[@johnnywalker3967]

Very good bruh👍

[@muratsenel95]

thank u jegs nice video

[@memetosebay1186]

Man this game is so broken sometimes i get 95 fps and the next match i get 20 30 Weapons not showing up people disappearing

[@djcedoxyd974]

Hello Guys, someone could help me my games when I open on ea official games it opens but after it goes to full screen it remains completely black I have no sound I have already updated windows drivers are up to date too I reinstalled all my components and other :( thank you what will help me :)

[@kasschen9825]

Nice video！thx！！

[@gdreyer]

Man, nice tests and all, but offline FPS tests are somehow useless with this game. I have constant 144fps* in a coop server, but this drops to 80 and even 65 when playing online and I have no clue why. * i7 9700k / RTX3080

[@JegsTV]

This kind of test is impossible to do online. as other players will constantly hunt you down and some settings need a restart in order for it to take effect. and further, this isnt a performance test for components, the purpose of the fps shown here was to compare the performance you get between settings. so using offline to test wont matter. as long as the difference of fps per settings are shown the test itself is accurate.

[@gdreyer]

@@JegsTV Sure I get it, but this game is strange when it comes to coop and public modes. I get constant 144fps when I play offline, but as soon as I get on a public server, FPS drops to 80 and even as low as 65 and I have no ideia why. If you have any clue, let me know. Cheers.

[@JegsTV]

@@gdreyer whats your complete specs to begin with? playing on large player server will have a huge load on the cpu. this might be one of the reason why you experience huge dips in performance going from offline to online.

[@gdreyer]

@@JegsTV Yep, i was always at 100% CPU usage when playing 2042, but since yesterday I've been testing some 'user.cfg' files I found online and I'm getting some better results now. No miracles at all, but better, around 90~95% CPU load during the whole round. Didn't notice a lot of difference between 64 and 128 servers, but it's definitely a CPU bottleneck. My specs: - Intel i7 9700K - RTX 3080ti - 32gb RAM DDR4 3600 - Game is installed in a M2 Nvme drive - 3440x1440p@144 display

[@balazsrisko1926]

thank u brotha!

[@bebediavolo]

Thank you!

[@Pilotaku]

Superb!!

[@ENERGODARskij]

Дякую за зрозумілу подачу!

[@TheGrungeChild]

Good effort.

[@patrickryan1821]

Even with all of these changes Im still only getting at best between 108FPS and 99%FPS between 48 to 60. I dont get it. I am running i9-9900k, RTX3090, 32GB RAM, game installed on a Samsung M2.NVME drive. I should be getting way higher frames.

[@romanvrabadaba6962]

I have 9700k 4.9Ghz OC with 3080ti. Same here. This game utilize 100 cpu Also i have to downclock my GPU to run it)

[@fsunduchok]

Great vid

[@TheRiz1205]

Thanks man.

[@mkpgamer7320]

i have msi 980ti always laggg on bf 2042 need helppp😊😊😊

[@asrr62]

Just play a different game. This one is just bad.

[@syf1k.36]

Привiт з України. Дякую за огляд, зробив як у відео. Підкажи будьласка, в мене дуже сильні объекти бувають, такі як трава, каміння, обирав і середні и ультра налаштунки. З чим це може бути зв'язано?

[@KluChz22]

I have a rx6600 xt and the game is unplayable

[@psychoscotch]

Good video, good explanations but why the annoying stupid and loud adventure music...

[@JegsTV]

Lmao. Those are battlefield soundtracks.

[@Tony-cc2it]

Put everything on low . Thats it

[@duvalbeast3725]

2 Thumbs up!!!

[@jasonpocklington9217]

And it still can’t touch battlefield 4

[@ShacolateClown]

somehow can play games on high/ultra yet cant even play Bf2042 on low even on 720P asked EA support for help. send them a list of what i did and tried. started with ''first i tried reinstalling the game'' first message they sent me back. ''have you tried reinstalling the game'' like wtf xD

[@JegsTV]

Whats your pc specs?

[@youham7066]

7:13 😂😂😂😂

[@AllinWhenPlaying]

I want my music back in my fucking game, ok?! It's like eating a dish you loved for over 20 years and now someone says, well, we will swap your stake for oatmeal due to artistic reasons.

[@GAMENETICA]

Hey buddy, tell me which settings should I apply for a stable 100-120 FPS in Battlefield 2042 (in two variants, for Full HD and 2K resolutions). My system: i5 12400F, 3070 Ti, 32 GB RAM (3200 MHz), game installed on an M.2 SSD - I will express my gratitude by subscribing, liking, and becoming your eternal servant from Greece!

[@asrr62]

I can barely get 20fps with a quad core pc tho. Also need a new graphic card too. This game pisses me off. I can still run call of duty i dont get how horribly optimized this trash game is.