Re: Season 12 FPS problems are caused by increased CPU intensity. (CPU bottleneck)

@EA_Atic Hi, here's the DxDiag. I'm currently running old BIOS version because the newest has some performance issues. I have also tried to run Apex with the newest BIOS but the performance is as poor as with the old one. I have also tried the clean boot but nothing changed.

I asked my friend who has much better PC than me (Ryzen 9 3900x & RX 6800 XT) to test his FPS with the same resolution and settings in the exact same place in the map than I did. While I had about 100 fps, my friend had 120 fps, which is 20% higher than mine. His GPU is about 50% faster than mine, but is CPU is only about 20% faster. So he is also CPU bottlenecked like me, and it really looks like something happened with Season 12 patch and the game got much more CPU hungry.

Thanks for trying to help but I think that this is caused by the Season 12 patch, and I have a feeling that the PS4 FPS issues is caused by the same CPU bottleneck. Something changed after the patch, and performance got worse on all platforms.

Noticed that there was an update, went to try the FPS but it's absolutely horrible. Everytime you look at the center of the map the FPS drops to unplayable levels:

https://streamable.com/2hb1w6

CPU total usage was at about 60-70% almost at all times and maximum per thread usage 100%, pretty clear CPU bottleneck. I really hope Respawn looks at this

I'm having the exact same problem, noticed my game looking very jittery compared to any other season, used to mainly sit at the fps cap of 190 but now in lots of different areas it will drop, My GPU used to always be the bottleneck in apex, I've always used rivatuner and done loads of benchmarks in the past, and its always been GPU limited, but gotten decent fps, now some areas it drops to below 100 and I will check with rivatuner and my GPU will be sitting between 70% - 80% usage while the frames are down, so 100% sure that something is messed up badly with this season, performance is terrible and in anything hectic its sometimes impossible to play, disappointing to not be able to play a game that I've played since season 0.

I can report the same issues on my RX 6600XT. No problems before I upgraded my GPU from an RTX 2070.

Frame rates drop from 150+ to as low as 35 when I look from the edge of the map towards the middle of the map.

I've read posts trying to explain this away as architecture differences and blaming it on DX11, but something feels very wrong.