Connection quality plays an important role when it comes to performing well in Battlefield 2042. Considering the number of enemy players you’ll be battling against in a match, you’ll want to play under the best circumstances possible.
When players are having connectivity problems or the game’s servers go down, they may experience lag with high ping that can also cause rubber-banding. Lagging players will find themselves at a disadvantage against those who have no connectivity issues, which can negatively impact their gaming experience. This isn’t a permanent situation, however, since there are a couple of methods players can try out to reduce or get rid of lag in Battlefield 2042.
The definition of lag also changes from player to player since the term gets used for frame drops or performance issues while gaming. While the two may seem similar, they’re completely different concepts—but this article will cover both.
Here’s how you can reduce lag in Battlefield 2042.
How to reduce connectivity-related lag in Battlefield 2042
Connectivity-related lag refers to high ping, rubber-banding, and receiving in-game updates later than other players. This type of lag only appears when there’s something wrong with Battlefield 2042’s servers or a player’s home network.
Check Battlefield 2042’s server status
When the servers are having a tough time keeping up with the demand or when they’re down for maintenance, players can start experiencing high ping and lag in Battlefield 2042. If there’s something wrong with the servers, nothing you do will allow you to reduce your lag in Battlefield 2042 since EA will need to fix the servers first.
You can check Battlefield 2042’s server status on EA’s Help portal. When the servers are down, there should be a notification on the website and you’ll have no choice but to wait for EA to roll out a fix for the servers in Battlefield 2042.
Alternatively, you can check out EA Help’s Twitter account and community hubs like Reddit and also Down Detector. In some cases, community-driven sites can be faster than EA itself when it comes to reporting server-related issues.
Restart your router
Restarting your router is one of the best ways of troubleshooting your home network since it’ll assign you a new route between you and your internet service provider (ISP). A sub-optimal route can cause players to experience high ping and lag in Battlefield 2042 and resetting your router will allow you to get a new connection route to Battlefield 2042’s servers as well.
Wait around 20 seconds before turning your router back on. You can also restart your gaming device in the meantime since small software glitches can cause players to experience bugs and errors.
Make sure there aren’t any background downloads
The main reason why most players experience lag is because of background downloads or processes that can clog up their bandwidth. Though most launchers pause any updates when players start a game, it’ll always be wise to check whether there are any rogue updates trying to install in the background while you’re playing Battlefield 2042.
Check Steam/Origin or your downloads section on your console to verify that there aren’t any updates downloading in the background. Once you make sure that your gaming machine isn’t working against you, you’ll need to check out other devices in your household. Phones, tablets, laptops, or other gaming consoles connected to your router can also be downloading updates without you noticing and that can clog up your bandwidth as a result.
If you detect any devices that may be installing updates while you’re gaming, put them into airplane mode, which should automatically turn off their Wi-Fi feature.
Change your DNS address
Most players use the default DNS addresses that their ISP assigns. While these DNS addresses work just fine, they can also go down and cause players to experience lag while playing Battlefield 2042.
Replacing your DNS with a more commercially available one will allow you to troubleshoot your default DNS. If changing your DNS reduces your lag, you can continue using your new DNS and try switching back to your old one in a couple of days since it should be back to its old form.
Call your ISP
If any of the fixes above weren’t able to reduce your ping in Battlefield 2042, you’ll need to call your ISP. Your ISP will have more advanced tools at its disposal and it’ll be able to find the root of your lag problem.
Outages, prime-time traffic, or something wrong with your wiring can all cause you to experience lag in Battlefield 2042 and your ISP can get to the bottom of the issue within a few minutes. If the issue is on their side, you may not even need to do anything and your lag problem can go away within a few hours once your ISP rolls out a fix.
How to reduce stutter, lag, and increase FPS in Battlefield 2042?
There are a couple of tricks you can try out to increase your frames in Battlefield 2042, which will reduce stuttering and visual lag. But the most effective way to do this is adjusting your in-game settings.
The settings layout below should give you the highest frame rate that your system can handle. And if you still can’t achieve smooth frame rates with the settings below, it may be time to upgrade your gaming rig.
- Field of View: 75
- Vehicle 3P Field of View: 35
- ADS Field of View: Off
- Brightness: Personal preference
- High Dynamic Range: Off
- Motion Blur: 0
- Chromatic Aberration: Off
- Film Grain: Off
- Vignette: Off
- Lens Distortion: Off
- Graphics Quality: Custom
- Texture Quality: Low
- Texture Filtering: Low
- Lighting Quality: Low
- Effects Quality: Low
- Post-Process Quality: Low
- Mesh Quality: Low
- Terrain Quality: Low
- Undergrowth Quality: Low
- Antialiasing Post-Processing: TAA Low
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Dynamic Resolution Scale: Off
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Enabled + Boost
- Future Frame Rendering: On
- Vertical Sync: Off
- High Fidelity Objects Amount: Low
In addition to adjusting your in-game settings, you can check out the control panel of your GPU and go through all the performance adjustments you can make there. If you don’t know your way around the control panel, you can check out guides for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, which showcase all the performance tweaks players can make.
Finally, you can try playing in lobbies where there are fewer players. When a Battlefield 2042 match is packed with the maximum number of players that a server allows, you’ll be increasing the rendering burden of your computer. More players will mean more assets to render and there will be more environmental changes as a result.
When there are fewer players, however, there will be less action, which means less burden for your GPU. The matches may feel slower in this case, but the joy of playing Battlefield 2042 with a smooth frame rate can be worth the trade-off.
