Advice required, GPU Upgrade or system ?

[VermilionChaos]

Apologies if this is in the wrong area but was hoping to get away with just a GPU upgrade but honestly not sure. Feel free to move if better suited elsewhere.

I've got a GeForce GTX 970, i7-4770k CPU @ 3.5GHz with 32GB Memory. Was playing Battlefield 2042 Open Beta earlier and frames were awful, dropped everything to low, running off an SSD, turned off most of the graphic options in game and was marginally better but not great. I know that the 970 is an old card but given that it still stands up to fairly modern fps games, I felt like it could handle BF better than it did. Occasionally, I did see the CPU top out at 100% then come back down and stayed fairly high throughout.

Is this likely a bigger issue with the GPU, CPU bottlenecking or both ? Open to advice, recommendations and roasting.

 

[varkanoid]

Apologies if this is in the wrong area but was hoping to get away with just a GPU upgrade but honestly not sure. Feel free to move if better suited elsewhere.

I've got a GeForce GTX 970, i7-4770k CPU @ 3.5GHz with 32GB Memory. Was playing Battlefield 2042 Open Beta earlier and frames were awful, dropped everything to low, running off an SSD, turned off most of the graphic options in game and was marginally better but not great. I know that the 970 is an old card but given that it still stands up to fairly modern fps games, I felt like it could handle BF better than it did. Occasionally, I did see the CPU top out at 100% then come back down and stayed fairly high throughout.

Is this likely a bigger issue with the GPU, CPU bottlenecking or both ? Open to advice, recommendations and roasting.

Its more likely to be a problem with the game from what I've been reading. Some calls to have the game delayed.

 

[rumple9]

2 things - Firstly its an old build beta version so it hasn't been optimised yet (I personally don't have any problems playing the game - it runs pretty well)

Secondly your hardware doesn't meet the recommended requirements which are i7-4790 & RTX 3060 (your graphics card is 3 generations behind and only has 4gb of vram). Also if you still have a Haswell chip you must have DDR3 ram.

Time for a full system upgrade I'm afraid

 

[Game]

my i5-6600 couldnt handle battlefield V by the end it was on 100% cpu usage the same with warzone

and that was two gens ahead of yours but a lesser tier

 

[Poneros]

You would honestly have to upgrade everything. Battlefield games are very taxing on CPUs but you can get away with a not so strong GPU if you play with competitive (low) settings. Granted, this beta was quite buggy so don't draw a definite conclusion from it, but I wouldn't expect much even from the launch version. Something like a Ryzen 5600X + RTX 3060 would be a good combo for this game imo, especially once DLSS gets added.

 

[VermilionChaos]

I had a feeling that might be the case I guess short term option is grab it on another platform then as I don't think I can justify that expense to get back up to par at the minute for it, was quietly hoping it would be one or the other haha.

Ahh well, thanks for the input, much appreciated