Drastically Improve Performance in Battlefield 2042 - Pre Day One Patch

This video shows how to improve performance in Battlefield 2042 by enabling DX12 and disabling depth of field (DOF) through the configuration file.

Generally, Battlefield 2042 is extremely CPU bound and if you have a decent GPU you will want to enable the option DX12 to reduce lag and boost FPS in BF2042.

Timestamps:
00:00 Drastically Improve Performance in Battlefield 2042
00:59 Low GPU utilization
01:50 DX11 vs DX12 performance
02:26 How to enable DX12 in Battlefield 2042
03:04 Weapon DOF performance impact
03:31 How to disable DOF in Battlefield 2042
04:05 Conclusions after enabling DX12

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[rewoXofficial]

If it is this "easy" to get alot better fps.. then it should be pretty easy for Dice to optimize the performance of the game to get even better fps! Will try this tonight, thanks!

[YounGG]

You nailed it. It does feel like you're aiming with a wet noodle. I'm glad someone else noticed this.

[kadettgte]

Totally worked for me, went from 80/90 fps to 120/130 on a RX6800XT Nice find!

[HotdogNoire]

Unfortunately, changing the DX12 value did absolutely nothing to increase the usage of my 3090. But the mouse acceleration changes did help quite a lot for responsiveness so, thanks!

[Chadpr]

Very helpful! Thanx a lot! Now we need our scoreboard back!

[Thefermar]

Oh my god, Ive been having a cpu load of 100% for a month since I bought the game. The cpu handled a lot of heating and the GPU never reached the 50% load. I activated the DirectX12 and this was completely solved. You've earned the like. I am very very thankful

[Kwizro]

Although the FPS doesn’t increase much, enabling Dx12 smoothed my game out a ton. No more micro stutters. And also I highly recommend doing the sensitivity scheme, your guns feels like even more of a beam on pc!

[etwon]

Thanks for this guide! I just can’t believe that EA hasn’t made an enable/disable dx12 setting

[bradyb]

Dude. Thank you so much for this. this works. Now with DLSS I get 144fps avg with 2080. Going to sub to your channel because of you fine work.

[slopezjur]

I don't know wtf it is going on with this game but that fix worked for me. I have a R7 5800X and a RTX 3080 and now I'm getting like 120fps in HIGH settings at 1440p. Nice improve!

[iseeu-fppo]

After I enabled DX12 my top FPS got higher but I still have the same low FPS when it dips. Overall I would say it improved slightly. I think this game is mainly CPU bound granted you have a good enough GPU.

3700X, 3060, 16 GB CL 14.

[mylostsanctuary]

There is no DX11 in this game and even your own overlay in this video is saying its running in dx12 for both at the performance comparison part....

[Tiltzy]

Just curious about the Nvidia DLSS, in the in game settings I have it turned on but in that notepad file it shows a 0. Do you think it’s actually on in the game despite the file showing 0?

[KOT-ANGRY]

I have Windows 11, Intel i7 12700K, AMD RX6900XT, 32Gb RAM and on LOW i have the same FPS as you at the begining 😳... I will try this later, amigo, thanks!

[dj.excess]

I too was wondering why my 3080ti would stutter occasionally and dip and lag spike once in a while. My 10700 isn’t that bad that I would blame it. Now I’m trying this when I get home. Thanks so much.

[bumdle]

Game runs on DX12 by default. Set the config value to 1 and opened the game. Resolution and refresh rate were reset and while i monitored my performance during gameplay both cpu and gpu were hovering around 60 to 70% usage while previously cpu had way more usage. This config value should not do anything but still seems to do something. What a blowup from DICE

[dadriccax]

I love this video, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who notices how bad the mouse sensitivity feels in this game. Anybody notice how all the youtubers who are really good at fps games that usually look like aimbots look like they're dog shit at this game? They need to fix this ASAP.

[mainfighter]

This shouldn't change anything because the game always runs in DX12 no matter what, if it is making an actual difference for some people (made no difference for me on a 3900x RTX3080 system) there must be some bug related to the setting that is causing the game to run better with it set to 1.

[mrijohnmc]

My GPU utilization went up to 98% works like a charm god bless you ❤️❤️

[PolarVoltic]

Sad that you have to edit the game files to make a AAA title playable, even after the update I see consistent 95% or higher, and a change of about 15-20FPS on the main conquest maps
Running a R5 5600x at 4.5GHz and a stock 3070