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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.

UPDATE: THIS NO LONGER WORKS AFTER THE DAY ONE PATCH. UPDATED VIDEO:

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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