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Re: Apex Legends memory crash

Also is anyone free to try a solution here? i think i know something that might work.

1.Turn off drive indexing or edit its settings: Applies to SSD only
Indexing creates and maintains a database of file attributes to use for search so results show up quicker. This can lead to multiple small writes when creating/deleting/modifying files. Searching for files will still work for programs and system tools and such when disabled. Since SSDs have such fast seek times and 4k reads that this feature is pointless.

  1. Open the Start Menu
  2. Click Computer
  3. Right click C: drive > properties and uncheck drive indexing
  4. Click apply (ignore all when comes up)
  5. Once done press the start button and type "Indexing options" into the search and enter, a window will pop up and you can adjust Indexing for quick search exactly how you like.

2.Enable write back caching and turnoff windows write-caching buffer flushing on C:\ drive:
Intel users read this: What's The Deal With Write-Cache Buffer Flushing? The performance improvement is not universal (some drives do not seem to like it for whatever reason), but it does usually apply to both SSDs and HDDs. HDDs are just at higher risk for data loss as they tend to be slower at writing their cache information to the drive and require more power when in operation, thus are less likely to finish writing everything to disk when there is a power failure. Many SSDs have enough power stored in their capacitors for the half second or so it takes to flush the buffer, most rotating platter drives do not. There is still some element of risk on most SSDs, but some (especially enterprise models) have a supercap specifically meant to power the drive long enough for a complete flush. Most consumer level drives do not have such a feature. In the end its about the level of risk you are willing to accept. Turning off buffer flushing on an HDD is moderately risky. On a normal SSD it's low risk (much faster random wirtes get data off the cache onto the NAND fast). On an enterprise SSD it's virtually no risk (supercapacitor gives these drives even more time to write data).

  1. Open the Start Menu, in the search line, type Disk Management and press Enter.
  2. Right click C:\ drive.
  3. Click "Properties."
  4. Go to the "Hardware" tab.
  5. Select your drive.
  6. Click Properties."
  7. Go to the "Policies" tab.
  8. The "Enable write caching" box should be checked by default, if not tick the check mark.
  9. Tick the check mark for "turnoff windows write-caching buffer flushing."
  10. Click the "OK" button.
  11. Once you do this reopen the policies tab and uncheck both boxes and then apply then open it again and recheck both boxes. Sometimes there is a glitch where it doesn't work the first time and you don't know it isn't working.

Please do the first fix then test the game and then do the other one to determine a single fix.

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  • Before the Havoc patch I'd only Memory Crash every 8-10 games, but now I crash every 1-2 games :/

    My game temporarily freezes, closes, and then I get this:

    Apex Memory Crash

    • Lowered all my settings

    • Increased alotted ram
    • Turned off anti-aliasing

    • V-sync triple buffered

    • Window borderless

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