@ShadonicX7543 if you're referring to the process of restarting the windows audio endpoint builder/windows audio that's been floating around, I have tried that trick many many times. The first time I tried it, it worked just fine for a couple of hours. However, after attempting to group with friends, the problems kicked back up again and have been consistent since. It's hard to tell though, for me, if it's not timing out, its a CTD. But i've had success, albeit limited, with that method.
Apex has already burned out a hard drive for me (the crashes drove me to move it to my SSD, which was apparently at the end of it's life, and put a dagger through it. Not actually Apex's fault, but i'll believe in voodoo at this point if it makes a difference for me. :P )
Anywho i'm throwing my hat into this ring as well, Also running an AMD FX6350. Run the gauntlet on the stock standard fixes, router configurations, admin privileges, and general technomancy. Same issue as most; freeze mid game, disconnection, and timeout message. Happens at game menu as well, more consistently than not when in a party. I've given up playing with friends, as it just leads to hours of frustration. Currently about to attempt the core disables to see what that does.
As a final detail, I was lucky enough to have pretty much zero problems with Apex for a week after installing, about a week ago, these issues started popping up.
Eastern Washington state, Centurylink ISP, PC.
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Have you tried updating your GPU driver yet? I see that you have one from 2017 and it looks like they released one on 2/25/2019.
AMD Drivers
https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/radeon-500-series/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-560
@EA_Blueberry I have not but will now do so, however, last night, when trying the reduction of my cores, I did not have any more issues with connectivity. In fact, my connection improved tenfold, hits registering a thousand times more consistently, and not having any latency issues. Did not experience the connection timeout once in four hours of play. Which I will be watching for again this evening. I'm not 100% familiar with the process of enabling/disabling cores through msconfig, but when I went to change the active cores, I found the number of cores my system has been booting with was 1 of 6. Maybe because I recently had a fresh install of Windows 10, but it made me feel like an idiot nonetheless. My main issue is now consistent crashes to desktop, the ones with no error message, a separate issue, but one that double checking my drivers will be a first step towards solving.
At this point, my issue with the Connection to Server time outs seems to be fixed by the aforementioned setting of my processing cores to 4 of 6, specifically using the method outlined by @ShadonicX7543 through MSconfig and not through BIOS.
Now I will throw my hat into the ring of attempting to fix my CTD's. Thank you all for your help, I hope this helps others try this method and hopefully they have similar success.
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