*** The Official Battlefield 2042 thread***

[syks]

Well im enjoying it now, bugs and performance aside.

 

[RBImGuy]

Are people really enjoying this game?

Tried beta but its call of duty design and riddled with issues.
so no buy.

 

[ak22]

Its a shame its released in this state I tried to like it but to many issues and crappy map design

 

[Gerard]

Its a shame its released in this state I tried to like it but to many issues and crappy map design

Give bf1942 portal mode a try

 

[pcfarrar]

The UI is appalling, didn’t think it could get any worse than BF1, BF5 but it is. It really needs a complete redesign from scratch.

 

[Tombstone]

Right now portal mode seems to be the thing that most people are enjoying as it's a nostalgia trip, especially where 1942 is concerned. They'd probably be well served to get more content out for that to keep people's interest.

Which I guess is no big surprise, I think most of us knew that Portal was going to be the most popular gamemode. I'd LOVE to see more BF1942, BC2 and BF3 maps added.

The UI is appalling, didn’t think it could get any worse than BF1, BF5 but it is. It really needs a complete redesign from scratch.

The UI I dont mind too much but the menu system, that is truly awful..its like information overload , its "LOOK HERE ! NO ! Look over here at me !! No no...look here ! Look at this option !!" Every part of the screen vying for your attention. Thing is, its not even just BF2042, I've noticed more and more games lately which have these over the top, info overload main menu screens.

 

[ak22]

Give bf1942 portal mode a try

Portal was more enjoyable Im happy playing other games until they release some patches and fixes.

 

[Screeeech]

I think I actually prefer a little bit of bullet spread and randomness to the shot grouping, I never really liked how you can just spray and end up with a 1" grouping

 

[Neil79]

NVIDIA GeForce 496.76 WHQL

Game Ready for Battlefield 2042

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Battlefield 2042, which utilizes NVIDIA DLSS and maximize performance and NVIDIA Reflex to minimize latency. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest new titles to leverage DLSS technology, including Assetto Corsa Competizione, Bright Memory: Infinite, Farming Simulator 22, Hot Wheels Unleashed, and Myth of Empires. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver also provides the best experience for Ruined King: A League of Legends Story.

New Features and Other Changes
NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings • Added Image Scaling control to boost application frame rates and increase the level of sharpness, detail, or clarity of images in games and applications

Fixed Issues in this Release

- [WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship/WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship]: The games crash on launch. [3409320/3409312]
- [Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint]: Textures in the game may flicker. [3410593]
- [Transport Fever]: The game crashes upon launch. [3411731]
- [Transport Fever 2]: Null pointer exception occurs in the display driver. [3409614]
- [Quake 2 RTX]: Image corruption occurs in the blurred (bloom effect) background. [3410802]
- [Far Cry 6][DirectX 12][GeFOrce RTX 3070 Ti]: With ULTRA + DXR + HD textures set, the game crashes at 4K. [3391784]
- [Detroit Become Human]: Random stuttering/freezing occurs in the game. [3389250]
- [Red Dead Redemption 2]: The game crashes with TDR or the system crashes while running the game. [200766423]
- [Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War]: The game randomly crashes. [3413347]
- [Marvel's Avengers Xbox Game Pass for PC version]: Game may randomly crash during gameplay [3404644]

Windows 10/11 Issues

- [Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop when there is mouse movement. [3405920]
- [Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled. If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
- [HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998] To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
- [NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to “dGPU”, the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
- YouTube: The YouTube web site randomly displays extreme contrast/gamma while idle or during video playback. [3420164]
- [NVIDIA Image Scaling][Desktop]: The screen moves to the upper left corner on cold boot when Image Scaling is applied to the desktop. [3424721] Do not apply NVIDIA Image Scaling to the desktop. It is intended only for video upscaling or for games which do not run with a scaling resolution unless the same Image Scaling resolution is applied on the desktop.
- [NVIDIA Image Scaling][DirectX 11 video apps]: With Image Scaling enabled, video playback is corrupted or results in a system hang after performing an HDR transition. [3431284] If HDR is required to be toggled from the Microsoft Control Panel, be sure to switch to a different Image Scaling resolution. Note: You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See “Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store” on page 19 for more information. Release 495 Driver for Windows, Version 496.76 RN-08399-496-76_v01 | 10 Open Issues in Version 496.76 WHQL
- [NVIDIA Image Scaling]: After performing a clean install or over install over version 496.49, NVIDIA Image Scaling resolutions do not appear in the game. [3434708] To work around, a. Disable HDR in case it's enabled from the Microsoft Control Panel, enable Image Scaling and apply the Image Scaling resolution on the desktop, and then reboot the system. b. If the previous instructions do not work, upgrade to the hotfix driver 496.84.

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-496-76-whql-driver-download.html

 

[booyaka]

Random thoughts for me - no particular order.

Performance seems ok to me (3700x/3070FE)
Looks nice
Movement and guns feel nice.

however -

• Loads of bugs, glitching through walls etc. Horrible revive animations and very buggy
• Massively frustrating with no voip, Hovercrafts are so OP, as is most vehicles
• Sometimes you get a good game, get some kills, next game you get shredded every 10 seconds by planes/tanks etc
• aa lockons are random and broken
• pp29 meta is massive at the moment
• too much dead ground between points at times
• Weapon rank up levels seem massive amounts of XP if your not getting 20/30 kills a round.
• 45 tick servers for 128 players - really?
• hit reg is all over the place at times - one round, great, next just awful

Portal has the potential to be good if they would allow community mods/servers etc but never going to happen.

It's a no for me currently, £50/£70 etc - no chance currently I'm paying that.

 

[smogsy]

its only worth using DMR or M4A1 atm those are the only guns that seem to have no spread/recoil issues with double tap

 

[Neil79]

NVIDIA Image Scaling Available Now

As part of our new Game Ready Driver, we’re today releasing an updated NVIDIA Image Scaling feature, available via GeForce Experience and the NVIDIA Control Panel. And to enable developers to incorporate the new technique into their games, we’re releasing NVIDIA Image Scaling as a free, platform-agnostic open source SDK.

For the past two years, NVIDIA has offered a driver-based spatial upscaler called NVIDIA Image Scaling and Sharpening, for all your games, that didn’t require game or SDK integrations to work.
With the new November GeForce Game Ready Driver, we have improved the scaling and sharpening algorithm to now use a 6-tap filter with 4 directional scaling and adaptive sharpening filters to boost performance. And we have also added an in-game sharpness slider, accessible via GeForce Experience, so you can do real-time customizations to sharpness.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/battlefield-2042-game-ready-driver/

 

[turbot1984]

crash and reboot twice with new driver?? Its like the old days ... solid as a rock with old driver yesterday

 

[syks]

Anyone tried the new driver yet? did you see a performance increase? is it more stable?

Thanks

 

[syks]

crash and reboot twice with new driver?? Its like the old days ... solid as a rock with old driver yesterday

Thats answered my question then lol think i will hold off for a bit, shame it has made things worse for you

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

Installing driver now

 

[syks]

Installing driver now

Looking forward to hearing your results after

 

[Gerard]

Using a helicopter earlier and noticed another old bug has found it's way into the game, you can see players on the ground running but theyre basically in freeze frame mode sliding along the ground with no animation. Presumably a performance optimisation but you'd think it would only affect players out of your line of sight.

On another server earlier in a heli and the lag was so bad it basically made every pilot on both teams crash, it was like massive waves of lag that hit in all of a sudden forcing anything flying into the ground.

 

[Delvis]

Using a helicopter earlier and noticed another old bug has found it's way into the game, you can see players on the ground running but theyre basically in freeze frame mode sliding along the ground with no animation. Presumably a performance optimisation but you'd think it would only affect players out of your line of sight.

On another server earlier in a heli and the lag was so bad it basically made every pilot on both teams crash, it was like massive waves of lag that hit in all of a sudden forcing anything flying into the ground.

I've not noticed that, will keep an eye out

 

[jasonsony735]

Hold of on the new update driver for now as reports online say they are releasing a Hot fix as its not good....... Ill stick with my current one for now as the games running great for me.