Battlefield V Lagging Issue Low GPU and CPU usage

[Achmedsback]

My System
CPU - Ryzen 1800X @ 4GHz and 60C on AIO
GPU - EVGA 1060 3GB @ 2150MHz and 55C-60C
PSU - 850W Gold
RAM - 16GB 3000MHz @ 2933MHz
60Hz 1080p monitor as well
1Gb network running at over 300Mbps

I play Starwars Battlefront II on High settings no problem at over 100FPS, the GPU usage is pegged at 99% or more and only about 45% on the CPU. Same goes for pretty much all other games on medium to high settings except for far cry 5 (higher CPU for obvious reasons)

PROBLEM:
When I play Battlefield V on even low settings I only get up to 60% GPU, 40% CPU and over 100FPS. But this weird stuttering lag whenever I run, almost like I'm tripping over another player every 3 to 5 seconds.

Attempted solutions
I tried updating the game, reinstalling drivers, turning off all of my overclocks, checked background processes, and checked individual core usage on the CPU. I don't know what else to check. I figured it was probably my GPU not being good enough but the minimum specs for the game are a 2GB 660, so I should have more than enough power to play. The game doesn't crash. I played other games and it doesn't happen with any of them. GPU and CPU usage are normal
I also checked all the temps again to make sure that I wasn't having an overheating issue inside of my case is at 30C and I plugged in a UPS to cut out dirty power possibility.




SOLVED:
Ok I feel like an idiot. I ran a speed test and only got about 50Mbps at the top end, and as low as 10Mbps. My wifi keeps fluctuating so being the IT wienie that I am I ran a cable and am now getting my full gigabit. No more lag. I thought it was server lag but turns out it is my network that was lagging so I'm calling my ISP in the morning because I was only getting 60 2 inches from the router.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

You've a very nice system, although the GPU is holding you back. With only 3gbs vram you are maxed out at 1080p 60hz/fps. Some game syou will hit 100 fps or whatever, but for any AAA game, specially BF1, BF V your gonna hit a wall as at 1080p there are many games that use more than 3gbs vram. The result is as you've explained. Stuttering here and there, which can be quite annoying.

Your system is well capable of driving any high end GPU. Consider getting a GTX1060 6gb/1070/ti/GTX RTX or above. From AMD RX580 8gb, Vega 56/64. Most of those cards are really overkill for your monitor. But it's better to have more GPU grunt, than less as you've seen.

 

[Achmedsback]

You've a very nice system, although the GPU is holding you back. With only 3gbs vram you are maxed out at 1080p 60hz/fps. Some game syou will hit 100 fps or whatever, but for any AAA game, specially BF1, BF V your gonna hit a wall as at 1080p there are many games that use more than 3gbs vram. The result is as you've explained. Stuttering here and there, which can be quite annoying.

Your system is well capable of driving any high end GPU. Consider getting a GTX1060 6gb/1070/ti/GTX RTX or above. From AMD RX580 8gb, Vega 56/64. Most of those cards are really overkill for your monitor. But it's better to have more GPU grunt, than less as you've seen.

Thank you for the quick response and the compliment on the system, I mostly use it as a workstation for simulation.

I understand that my GPU is definitely the bottleneck, but when the minimum specs are a lower VRAM card that is 3 generations older and I'm only getting 60% usage. I don't have this issue with BF1. I think that there has to be a setting or something else that is affecting the game.
On another note I'm looking at a 1080ti after the semester is over, but I'm afraid that if I am not getting full usage out of a 1060 then anything higher will again be a waste.

 

[davidresh598]

If you go for a 1080 ti i would reccomend you just go upgrade your current 1080p panel unless you want to stay on 1080p display which is fine but i would reccomend at least a 1070 ti for 1080p ultra settings you would be good for playing at ultra maxed out settings for 1080p but if upgrading to well 4k think about getting even a 1080 ti games are demanding now a days i myself have a 1050 ti 4gb but later on down the road i'll buy a 1070 ti to slap in the system and ill be good to go

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

On the 1080ti, don't worry. the 1800x will drive it fine, and you will see a huge improvement in FPS.

On the GPU thing. Yes, it's very possible a driver setting has capped GPU usage. Vsync on would do it. As would an in game frame cap. Try a driver re-install, but do a custom install, and select the clean install option. This will reset the driver to default and remove any profiles.

Also, make sure in game v-sync is off too. Not only in the Nvidia Control panel, but in game settings. You could also try adaptive v-sync in the Nvidia control panel. See if it has a positive effect.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Also, just a note on the monitor. It's a 1080p 60hz panel! It does not display more than 60hz/fps. SO when you say it's hitting 100fps, you don't actually see that on screen. If you use something like MSI Afterburner to monitor FPS, it might say your hitting 100fps, but thats at the end of the GPU pipeline, it's not actually whats displayed on screen.

I'd agree with davidresh598 to an extent. If you are going to get a 1080ti (think about an RTX2070/2080 instead) then a better monitor will be a nice compliment. The 1080ti is massive overkill for 1080p. But so is a 1070ti. You should look at a 1440p 144hz panel. With that CPU and a 1440p monitor, along with a 1080ti/RTX2070/2080 you will have an amazing gaming experience.

 

[Achmedsback]

Thank you all for the advice, I understand that the monitor and the GPU are the things holding me back from an epic experience, but for the time being I'm going to have to make due with what I have.

Now the point to the fact that I get over 100fps was that the card is still rendering the game just fine I'm curios to know why the lag was there.
I'll definitely look into the VSync settings and do a clean install on the driver and let you know how that turns out.

If you have any other ideas please let me know I'm open to try anything aside from purchasing new hardware.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Thank you all for the advice, I understand that the monitor and the GPU are the things holding me back from an epic experience, but for the time being I'm going to have to make due with what I have.

Now the point to the fact that I get over 100fps was that the card is still rendering the game just fine I'm curios to know why the lag was there.
I'll definitely look into the VSync settings and do a clean install on the driver and let you know how that turns out.

If you have any other ideas please let me know I'm open to try anything aside from purchasing new hardware.

Apart from the vsync settings and driver clean install, you could try a bios update. It may be something as simple as that.

After that, unless there's something glaringly obvious hardware wise (maybe run an instance of HWMon.info to make sure everything is running okay, then you might consider an OS re-install. I'd do that as a last resort, but if you haven't done a fresh install in a couple of years (i do it once a year) then it might be worth doing as the system can get bloated with driver remnants, anomolies on the HD/SSD or corrupt files.

 

[Achmedsback]

So the driver install didn't do anything, the game install didn't do anything (went through the registry and deleted all old files associated with BFV), I did a bios update about two weeks ago because of a chipset update so I don't think that will make a difference, and I can't afford to reinstall windows because of the 8TB of stuff on my drives and it would take days to install all of my software and I would need to contact my professors for keys to install school simulations.

I changed from conquest (up to 64 players) to domination (up to 32 players I think) and it did it a lot less on low, I changed back to default settings and it only does it when I'm around other players. I think its a game server issue.

Thank you all for the input and the vsync changed to adaptive helped this a little more as well.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

You're welcome. Good luck, and happy gaming.