2 years ago

Apex stuttering after coming back from alt+tab

Product: Apex Legends
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number Ryzen 5800x RTX 3080
Enter RAM memory size in GB 32
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? EZG
Please provide your squad mates' gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name if possible.
Are you using any software with an overlay? No
Which Legend were you playing (if applicable)?
Which Legends were your squad mates using (if applicable)?
Where did the issue occur? In a match
Which part of the map or menu were you in? If you don't remember the exact name, please describe the area or what you were trying to do in the menu. Whole game
What were you doing when the issue occurred? E.g. respawning a squad mate at a beacon, using an ability, a squad mate left the game. Anything
Did your squad mates also experience the issue? I don't know
How many matches had you played in a row before the issue occurred? 3-5
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) Every day
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
How severe is your issue? Major impacts to gameplay
What happens when the bug occurs? Major ingame stutter
What should be happening instead? No stutter
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play games and alt tab doing other stuff in between

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Hey guys,

The game is running fine, and then suddenly it's the alt+tab of death, when I come back in Apex it doesn't recover and the game start to stutters really hard. My displayed fps are still at 240, but visually it's close to 10-30. It happens randomly after a certain amount of alt+tabs, the only way to recover is to restart the game.

This is a problem I've always had with Apex and it's driving me crazy. I'm motivated to find a solution, I need your help.

After some Google search I notice a lot of players encounter this bad behavior too, but I can't find a fix. I have never experienced that with any other games I play (Halo, Trackmania, Minecraft, CoD, LoL...), and with any systems I previously had (I clean install often like once or twice a year).

I tried to:

- Repair through Steam

- Uninstall / install game

- Clean install Windows

- Play in borderless

- Play in fullscreen

- Enable / Disable VSync

- Enable / Disable GSync

- Cap / Uncap FPS

- Disable FPS cap in background

- Use previous version of Nvidia drivers, and the 2nd previous

- Set "max performance" in Nvidia 3D settings